|  | | Home > Events > Disease, Disaster, and Democracy, 2006 > Conference Speakers > Kristina Peterson Kristina Peterson Summary | Transcript | Panel agenda Professional Biography
Ms. Peterson has been a community activist for 35 years. Her interest is in working with marginalized and at-risk communities following disasters, helping them to develop the capacity to be sustainable communities. Her current work includes finding patterns of coastal community resiliency as part of her doctoral work at the University of New Orleans, Center for Hazards Assessment and Risk Technology (CHART). For the past 4 years she has been working with Grand Bayou, Louisiana, a Native American fishing community, facilitating a collaborative process between the community and outside experts whose collective vision is a healthy, sustainable, culturally intact coastal community. She is the pastor of Bayou Blue Presbyterian Church, is married to Richard L. Krajeski, and lives in a working warehouse in Houma, Louisiana.
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