Amber S Khan

Dr. Amber Khan is an interdisciplinary disaster scholar whose research explores community-led approaches to climate adaptation and disaster resilience. Her current research examines how community-stewarded land (e.g., community land trusts) supports long-term resilience and rematriation efforts, as well as how mutual aid functions as an informal, grassroots disaster risk reduction strategy. Together, these projects examine how locally-governed systems offer scalable alternatives to dominant, top-down disaster governance models while strengthening social, economic, and environmental resilience. Dr. Khan serves as a participatory action research fellow at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, a NSF “Enabling” fellow, and an Urban Affairs Early Career Publishing fellow. In her forthcoming role as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in Portugal, Dr. Khan's research will explore land stewardship approaches for building disaster resilience across Southern Europe.