{"id":14197,"date":"2020-12-10T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=14197"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:44:42","slug":"winding-path-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/winding-path-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding Path of Research: Flood Risk, Recognition, and the Latino and Latina Community in Wilmington, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Integrating principles of citizen science and environmental justice into decision-making and policy-making processes may help address water-related inequities. My own research focuses on disaster and natural hazards, but graduate students, as well as emerging researchers and scholars, can draw lessons from a range of disciplines and across research topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My original research proposed helping the Latino and Latina community map their flooding concerns and community assets. I thought doing so could create a more accurate representation of flood risk for this population. Before going into the field, I recognized I needed to work with collaborators in the community who already had established trust with the Latino and Latina community, especially because the schedule for my study did not allow enough time for me to genuinely build up trust in that community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of this, I connected with El Centro Hispano at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Together, the El Centro team and I discussed strategy, revised research materials, and coordinated bilingual volunteers who could help recruit and run the interactions with participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n