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Anne Siders
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
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Email:
siders@stanford.edu
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Bio
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Stanford Student Employee, Center for Teaching & Learning
Anne Siders is a PhD candidate at Stanford University who studies adaptive capacity of governance systems in the context of climate change adaptation. She combines approaches from hazards geography, sociology, law, digital humanities, and computational social science to identify mechanisms by which adaptive capacity is built and assessed. Her recent work explores how climate adaptation frameworks and theories are integrated into disaster risk reduction and international development policies, and how changes at a policy level are implemented in coastal communities and megacities through multi-level and informal governance systems. Her work spans several geographic regions, including infrastructure development in the Arctic, coastal defense in the United States, and urban resilience in Europe and South-East Asia.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Siders was a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Navy, where she worked on international engagement and capacity building in Africa, and an Associate Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, where she worked on post-Hurricane Sandy recovery. She is a research fellow with the Earth Systems Governance Program, the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative, and the Hoover Institution Arctic Security Initiative. She holds a J.D. and an A.B. in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard. She is originally from Duluth, Minnesota and misses the cold.
Honors and Awards
Stanford Graduate Fellow in Science & Engineering, David and Lucille Packard Foundation (2013-Present)
Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Navy (2010-2012)
Dean's Award for Community Leadership, Harvard Law School (2010)
Chayes International Public Service Fellowship, Harvard Law School (2008)
Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize for Public Service Leadership Potential, Harvard University (2007)
Goelet Award for Undergraduate Research in Anthropology, Harvard College (2007)
Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) Fellow, Harvard College (2006-2007)
University Service and Professional Activities
Leadership Tier Representative, Coastal Resilience Collaborative, Florida Earth Foundation (2014 - Present)
Research Fellow, Earth Systems Governance Project (2014 - Present)
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution - Arctic Security Initiative (2014 - Present)
Research Fellow, Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) (2014 - Present)
Member, California Bar Association (2011 - Present)
Member, American Association of Geographers (2013 - Present)
Member, Climate Evaluation Society (2014 - Present)
Member, Society of International Development (2014 - Present)
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School (2010)
B.A., Harvard College, Human Evolutionary Biology / Biological Anthropology (2007)
Certificate, Georgetown Government Affairs Institute, Legislative Affairs (2012)
Certificate, Georgetown Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, Executive Nonprofit Management (2011)
Work Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Associate Director
,
Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
(
September 1, 2012
-
August 31, 2013
)
Presidential Management Fellow
,
U.S. Navy
(
September 1, 2010
-
August 31, 2012
)
Service Work:
Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, National Security Journal
,
Harvard Law School
(
2009
-
2010
)
Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Human Rights Journal
,
Harvard Law School
(
2009
-
2010
)
Editor, Harvard Environmental Law Journal
,
Harvard Law School
(
2008
-
2010
)
Student Database Manager, E-IPER
,
Stanford University
(
2014
-
Present
)
Volunteer Educator, SPLASH
,
Stanford University
(
2013
-
Present
)
Admissions Committee Student Representative
,
E-IPER Stanford University
(
2013
-
2014
)
Legal Researcher
,
Landmine Action
(
2008
-
2008
)
Residential Assistant, Dane Hall
,
Harvard Law School
(
2009
-
2010
)
Pre-Law Tutor, Kirkland House
,
Harvard College
(
2008
-
2010
)
Teaching
Courses Taught
2014-15
Policy Practicum: Catalyzing Nature-Based Coastal Flood Mitigation and Adaptation
LAW 413Y (Win)
Advisors/Advisees
Stanford Advisors:
Pamela Matson
,
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Margaret Caldwell
,
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (NonAC)
Mark Algee Hewitt
,
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Martin Fischer
,
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)