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Accountability for a Just, Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Future

Value Proposition For employees who have been taken advantage of by a person in authority, Accountability JEDI is a platform that anonymously curates grassroots experiences into metrics by which to hold colleagues and companies accountable for serving Justice by creating an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive (JEDI) culture, while maintaining checks for unbiased reporting and security …

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Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation

Resources, Articles, Speaking Engangement / By Natasha Stavros

At WKID Solutions, we have been working for nearly two years to develop resources to help innovators make real changes in the complex systems they navigate every day. We all see problems that we wish we could solve from obesity, employee burnout, systemic racism, to climate change. So often, people want to dive into the …

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The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example

Articles / By Natasha Stavros

A Climate Emergency that is Personal is a Climate Crisis! In 2003, my family evacuated our home in one of the first megafires of the 21st century. They did it again in 2007. This time my childhood friends lost their homes. In 2020, we evacuated again pre-empting an evacuation mandate for the Bobcat Fire that …

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Fires on Earth – What You Need to Know

Speaking Engangement / By Natasha Stavros

Dr. Natasha Stavros gave a talk at the American Museum of Natural History for the 2021 Climate Week in New York City. She worked with data visualization expert Carter Emmart and together they tell a visually compelling story for a general audience of fire on Earth, the physics behind it, and the context of those …

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Best Practices for Meetings: Reduce Stress, Foster Inclusion, and Promote Respect

Articles, Resources / By Natasha Stavros

Why do we need Meeting Best Practices? Working remotely, we cannot do what we did in an in-person environment. Remote work has led to an increase in remote meetings that are having uncharacterized effects on employee mental and physical health as well as work-life balance. Long-term implications could reduce employee efficacy and productivity and increase …

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Megafires Today: Couldn’t we just rake?

Articles / By Natasha Stavros

I received this email in my inbox about wildfires and management… Hi Dr. Stavros, I read the transcript of your talk on wildfires. I am curious: does a lack of tree pruning and underbrush clearing (controlled burning) contribute to the likeliness of wildfires? I know that wildfires happen almost everywhere that there is forest, but …

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Fire, Technology and Where We Are Today

Speaking Engangement / By Natasha Stavros

Interview Transcript from CU On the Air Already in the U.S. in 2021, some 95 large fires have burned more than 2 million acres in 15 states. Nearly 24,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are on the front lines across the country. Today on CU on the Air, host Emily Davies talks with CU Boulder Professor Natasha …

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Megafires, Technology, and Innovation

Press, Articles / By Natasha Stavros

Founder Dr. Natasha Stavros wrote an article for The Conversation about bringing tech innovation to wildfires. Dr. Stavros co-led a workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) affiliated with California Institute of Technology to bring together tech innovators, fire operators, policy makers, and scientists to discuss how to fire fires smarter. Together this …

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The Wicked Wildfire Problem and Solution Space

Speaking Engangement, Articles / By Natasha Stavros

Dr. Stavros gave a plenary talk on the wicked wildfire problem and solution space to frame the context for the Keck Institute of Space Science workshop on Detecting and Tracking the Fires that Matter. What is needed, what is possible, how do we build it? In this talk, Dr. Stavros provides an overview of what …

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NASA Blog: The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West

Press / By Natasha Stavros

In this well-written article, Alan Buis, who worked with Founder Natasha Stavros to understand not only climate’s impact on wildfires, but wildfires impact on climate. Learn more about the bi-directional feedbacks here: Read it on the NASA Climate Blog