PhD student and incoming lecturer at UNT, Julie Elliott, wants to help educate the next generation of emergency managers.

“I think we can help offer them a more concrete idea of what to expect,” Elliott said.

As she gears up to teach two courses this fall semester at UNT, Elliott is also balancing her dissertation.

“I am a PhD candidate at the University of Delaware,” Elliott said. “My dissertation is focused on collaboration in disasters and understanding how different networks are formed, how they are maintained in disasters.”

Given her focus on networks and collaboration, Elliott deployed to Kerrville and stayed with family nearby.

“It became abundantly clear in the first few hours that there were going to be countless organizations responding to that disaster event,” Elliott said.

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