Zone Zero & Fire Prevention: What You Need To Know

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• More details about Madeleine Brand (Host of KCRW's Press Play)

  Madeleine Brand (Host of KCRW's Press Play)

  Madeleine Brand is the host of the award-winning daily news and culture show, Press Play. On the show, she covers national, international and local stories through a Southern California lens. Madeleine has hosted and reported for NPR and for affiliate stations for more than 30 years. She has a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she also taught documentary radio. Madeleine's undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in English.

• More details about Jennifer Gray Thompson

  Jennifer Gray Thompson

  Jennifer Gray Thompson is the founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, a national nonprofit advancing survivor-led recovery after megafires. Since the 2017 North Bay fires, she has worked across disaster-affected communities in California, Oregon, Colorado, Hawaiʻi, and beyond, helping leaders navigate the complex years of rebuilding. Gray Thompson is a nationally recognized advocate for disaster recovery reform and has testified before the U.S. Senate on improving federal disaster systems. Her work has helped advance more than $6 billion in federal tax relief for disaster survivors. She was named to the Forbes 50 Over 50: Impact list and serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Disaster Response Reform Task Force. Gray Thompson is also host of the How to Disaster podcast and creator of the Wildfire Leadership Summit.

• More details about Dawn Fanning

  Dawn Fanning

  Dawn Fanning, a 30-year Pasadena resident and Eaton Fire survivor still displaced from a home left standing, is co-founder and managing director of Eaton Fire Residents United (EFRU). Since the fire she has worked with EFRU to educate residents, collect and map independent testing data, and advocate for clearance before occupancy and health-based standards. That work led to AB 1642, which EFRU sponsored and the Governor signed in September, making California the first state in the nation to set comprehensive scientific standards for when a wildfire-damaged home is safe to live in. Dawn is a Grammy-nominated TV and film producer with 25 years in the industry, and former Board Chair of Planned Parenthood Advocates Pasadena.

• More details about Dr. Kari Nadeau

  Dr. Kari Nadeau

  Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, is dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Nadeau’s research integrates exposomics (the comprehensive study of all environmental exposures) with immunology and epigenetics to understand and mitigate environmentally associated diseases like allergy, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. Nadeau actively engages in policy: She works with global health organizations (e.g., WHO, UN), serves on US EPA advisory committees, and translates her findings into actionable health strategies. She earned her MD and PhD from the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School and completed her clinical training in pediatrics and immunology. Nadeau is also a practicing allergist and immunologist, caring for both children and adults. A world recognized leader in public health and in medicine, Nadeau previously served as the chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. During that time, Nadeau was also professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Allergy, Climate, and Exposomics Laboratory. She has been involved in the practice, teaching, and research of public health for more than 30 years. For example, Nadeau previously worked on policy for climate change solutions to improve public health and currently co-leads the LA Fire Health Study. She is an adjunct professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics, and formerly served as the Nadissy Foundation Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma at Stanford University School of Medicine. Nadeau holds leadership positions on numerous boards and at institutions that include undergraduate and graduate schools of public health, medicine, and more. She launched four biotech companies, and while at Stanford University she founded the Climate Change and Health Equity Task Force, and started the Sustainability Health Seed Grant initiative. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the US EPA and works as a member of the UNEA through Harvard University to address environmental health and planetary health governance and policy. She previously served as a member of the US EPA Children’s Protection Scientific Board.