Ep 1: Late Autism Diagnosis in Adults – Signs You’ve Been Misdiagnosed
Are you questioning whether to get a late autism diagnosis? Dr. Natasha Stavros and therapist Sarah Liebman discuss misdiagnosis, unmasking, and when to seek an assessment. Show Notes Episode Details Episode number: 1 Release date: 2026-03-26 Hosts: Natasha Stavros, PhD — author of The Unmasking Diary and Burning Inside Out (coming to a bookstore near you in December […]
Eaton Megafire – When the Flames Are Gone
https://youtu.be/_K6RH-HOkiU Megafires – the fires with devastating effects to life, property, and ecosystems – are becoming more common. Their size, speed, and impact is increasing. Some of this is because of climate change, some of it is because of how we have managed our lands and build our homes and infrastructure. I was the first […]
Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation
Founder Natasha Stavros (PhD) developed the WKID (pronounced “wicked”) Innovation framework to describe how to system engineer change to solve wicked problems. Wicked problems involve multiple organizations and often involve disagreement about the causes and best solutions. What is WKID Innovation? WKID Innovation is a framework to generalize processes for innovation using leadership techniques and […]
The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example
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 […]
Fires on Earth – What You Need to Know
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 […]
Megafires Today: Couldn’t we just rake?
I received this email in my inbox about megafires 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 […]
Fire, Technology and Where We Are Today
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 […]
Megafires, Technology, and Innovation
Wildfire is a wicked problem affecting many people with shared responsibility and accountability, each with their own constraints on viable solutions. Using the WKID Innovation framework, Founder Dr. Natasha Stavros brought 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 […]
The Wicked Wildfire Problem and Solution Space
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 […]
NASA Podcast: Fueled by Fire
Founder Natasha Stavros discusses the role of fire in the Earth System. She discusses the science of how fire behaves, its impacts and drivers. Dr. Stavros discusses what it means to her personally as an Aries, born and raised in Southern California, a landscape prime for regular wildfire and a hot bed for many of the […]