Nick Humphrey is a doctoral candidate in emergency management at North Dakota State University. He is also a meteorologist, having attained a master’s degree in geosciences with a concentration in applied meteorology from Mississippi State University in 2016. Nick grew up in Seattle, Washington. As a 6 year old child, he experienced a major snowstorm which paralyzed the city, sparking an obsession with weather. Years later, in 2005, Nick watched as Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. This pivotal event pushed him into issues in emergency management and the impact of weather hazards on people and society. Nick’s work reflects these passions. He’s interned for the US National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, North Dakota, helping meteorologists analyze social vulnerability and risk for the office’s county warning area. Nick is also a Bill Anderson Fund Fellow, promoting diversity in the emergency management research community and drawing attention to challenges faced by historically disadvantaged people in disasters. His dissertation research is on the knowledge of household response to warnings by US government meteorologists and how what they know informs their warning communication approach. In his spare time, Nick enjoys reading, writing, watching the news, and spending time with his young son and fiancé.