The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change

Jordan Pascoe is professor of philosophy at Manhattan College. She is a feminist philosopher who works in moral, social, and political philosophy, feminist epistemology, Kantian philosophy, and philosophy of race. She writes about sex, disasters, domestic and caregiving labor, and intersectionality. Her first book is Kant’s Theory of Labour. Mitch Stripling is the director of the New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). PRI is operated by Columbia University with key partner the City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy. He has a long history of leadership roles in emergency management, disaster response and planning, coordination, and response to public health crises, including as national director for Emergency Preparedness and Response at Planned Parenthood (PPFA), and as an assistant commissioner at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH). Prior to his roles in New York City, Stripling coordinated disaster responses for the Florida Department of Health. He has helped plan and implement the responses to more than twenty federally declared disasters and public health emergencies.