The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.

In emergency management, our mission is clear: save lives, reduce harm, and help communities recover as quickly as possible. Yet, too often, our approach unintentionally leaves some communities in worse shape than before. Achieving fairness requires understanding the difference between equality and equity—two concepts that may seem similar but have vastly different impacts on disaster preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.

As another semester begins, I find myself filled with anticipation and excitement to meet a new group of students. This marks my fifth year of teaching, and with each passing year, my passion for education and leadership studies only deepens. Teaching is not just about delivering content—it is about building connections, fostering growth, and creating a space where students can develop into thoughtful and engaged individuals.

This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).

STIs are common. Many are curable - all are preventable.

It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

If we have not met, here are my credentials: I have been involved with disaster work for nearly 20 years beginning with the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure. I wor...

A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.

Denial and defiance: In Southern California, human nature -- rather than fires and earthquakes -- may be our undoing

Cameron Hamilton does not appear to have experience coordinating responses to large-scale disasters, like the wildfires in California.