Nazma Ahmed

Nazma Ahmed is a third-year Doctoral student in Sociology at West Virginia University, with a research focus in Environmental Sociology. She previously studied Disaster Science and Climate Resilience at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and received Dean’s Award for academic excellence as an undergraduate. Before joining WVU, she worked with national and international nonprofit organizations in Bangladesh on projects spanning disaster risk reduction, environmental sustainability issues, public health, nutrition, rural development, and community empowerment. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant on the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded FLASH initiative, working in collaboration with the Mountain Hydrology Laboratory in WVU’s Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to support community-based participatory research to co-create flood resilience blueprints for central Appalachia. Her research interest centers on understanding flood vulnerability and community resilience through environmental justice and political ecology perspectives, especially how power, governance, and uneven development shape unequal risk and recovery outcomes in marginalized and underprivileged communities