Divya Chandrasekhar is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah with expertise in community recovery from disasters. Her research has examined pre- and post-disaster planning and capacity building, stakeholder recovery decisions, and disaster recovery policymaking in South Asia, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Dr. Chandrasekhar is a member of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission, the Utah State Hazard Mitigation Team, and a member of the Roundtable on Risk and Resilience of Extreme Events (Resilient America) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. She received her master’s and Ph.D. degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and holds a bachelor’s degree in physical planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.