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Danielle Zoe Rivera

@danielle-rivera.bsky.social
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🇵🇷 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at UC-Berkeley | Just + Equitable Environments | Disaster (and Disastrous) Research | Occasionally gardening + a dog

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On September 29, Governor Newsom signed SB1093 - "Mobilehome Parks: Disaster Assistance." This bill is the result of hard work from MH leaders in Los Angeles, Ben Allen's office, nphs, and (most especially) Ryan Sears! Many congratulations! Read more here: www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/g...
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Governor Newsom signs legislation to accelerate wildfire prevention projects, strengthen fire response, and harden communities against future disasters | Governor of California
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's been a highlight of my career, thus far, to contribute research so directly for real, meaningful change. When Ryan and I work together, we are unstoppable! Now to keep working to get more post-disaster resources and rights for MH residents in California!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SB1093 includes language surrounding the following: clarity surrounding when and how landowners must communicate with MH residents, establishes a right to entry following disasters, and clarifies how and when debris clearance and soil testing must happen following disasters.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My contribution was giving these folks survey data on the experiences of manufactured housing residents impacted by the LA fires. Our findings gave credence to why clear MH resident rights following major disasters are needed. I also went to Sacramento to present findings as a technical expert!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On September 29, Governor Newsom signed SB1093 - "Mobilehome Parks: Disaster Assistance." This bill is the result of hard work from MH leaders in Los Angeles, Ben Allen's office, nphs, and (most especially) Ryan Sears! Many congratulations! Read more here: www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/g...
gov.ca.gov
Governor Newsom signs legislation to accelerate wildfire prevention projects, strengthen fire response, and harden communities against future disasters | Governor of California
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hurricane Dolly from 2008: wrote my dissertation on its aftermath: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...
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Hurricane Dolly (2008) - Wikipedia
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Agreed, please place a trigger warning if you are sharing these videos. These are human beings and peoples' friends and family. I had to step away from my computer the first time I saw it.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is the goal I didn't realize I needed to attain! 😱
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So many women are suffering quietly because it is so taboo to share what they are experiencing (or have experienced)... Any movement towards removing the spectre around this is immensely positive.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Regina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake'
ALT: Regina George (Rachel McAdams) 'Take That Fake'
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
if you’re getting behind on administrative tasks — car registration, doctor appointments, dental cleanings, passport renewal, organizing the house — I cannot recommend enough ✨writing a novel✨
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You can see our full project progress here on the MHC Community Website! www.just-environments.org/manufacturin...
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Manufacturing Recovery — Just Environments Lab
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As we launch Survey 2, in the past year I've worked with NPHS in LA County to support three manufactured housing communities (MHCs) impacted by the 2025 Palisades Fire. Our report from Survey 1 helped support two senate bills in CA for MHC disaster recovery: www.just-environments.org/2026-mhcs-po...
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2026 Post-Palisades Fire MHC Survey 1 — Just Environments Lab
This research brief analyzes our first survey of manufactured housing (MH) residents in three manufactured housing communities (MHCs) impacted by the 2025 Los Angeles Fires. All three were impacted by...
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thanks for forwarding this! I'll share with my community partners and have an upcoming manuscript where this will be cited in!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At the moment, I'm hoping this is just a cruel prank...
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am having so much trouble believing this is real. He was one of the most generous and kind scholars. My heart is broken.
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
And it features stellar new work from many of your climate justice favorites, including @aldasky.bsky.social, @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, @akirarodriguez.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, and many others. cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...
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Building Postcarbon Futures | Columbia University Press
What would a postcarbon future look like? How would a more just, decarbonized world require us to change the way we live? What would it take to build this wo... | CUP
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2026
Emergency officials in Hawaii ordered people near a dam in the northern part of Oahu to evacuate on Friday and warned that it was in danger of failing after heavy rain overnight pushed the reservoir to critically high levels. nyti.ms/4spFbiE
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In doing my dissertation in the UFW archives, I learned that "sí, se puede" was stated by Huerta as she charged into a grower's office, with the men standing back in fear. So much of the movement was and continues to be her efforts.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The appearance of the sky blue Puerto Rican flag is most moving of all, given its meaning and how it was criminalized for so long. To carry it with hundreds of millions watching on national TV is certainly an important moment in Puerto Rican history and culture.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
These scenes capture so much about the histories of our families: both the pains we've experienced as Puerto Ricans, but also the bonds that carried/carry us through. That they were shown on such a powerful national stage, and in solidarity with other communities with similar pains, is so moving.
Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: holding the Puerto Rican independence flag.Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: in a simulated sugarcane field with jíbaros.Photo of Ricky Martin at the Super Bowl halftime show.Photo of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show: in a Puerto Rican wedding and family celebration.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As a result, posts that appear as solidarity are often not: there is not enough awareness of what Black and Latinx peoples have and continue to deal with, what we hear in our communities is rarely reflected in the news... The post below makes this point, and those are just recent names too...
X post screenshot explaining how current outcry focuses extensively on the white folx killed by ICE, but not any of the Black/Brown/Asian folx.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
And they've been happening for two decades, since the patrol was formed (and the Rangers before them). One reason I've stayed away from this app in the past months is that the discussions around ICE are often highly racialized and invisibilize the long history of Black/Brown struggles.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
As many teachers are completing syllabi for the coming semester/quarter, a reminder that this resource is free and available to all!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/11/2025
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article is an amazing reconceptualization of rural water capacities! First-authored by an awesome colleague of mine! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Linking variation in water democracy to system performance on the human right to water
Nature Water - Access to safe, affordable and accessible drinking water is influenced by various socioeconomic factors. A survey of a large number of California water systems shows how different...
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Julie Johnson @jjreport.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A California wildfire wiped out this little-known ancient forest of massive trees just before major fire-prevention work was set to begin. “I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more. I am angry because this outcome was a choice.” www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
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‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out
Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'd respond: "Which time?" 😆
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Absolutely horrifying...
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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a, Total incidence of TCs on CONUS by month. Bar height is sum of average maximum wind speeds for all state-by-storm events. Colours correspond to decades. b, Stacked overlapping excess mortality responses to each storm for all of CONUS. Each storm response aggregates state-level responses nationally, accounting for state-level population and adaptation. Outline colours correspond to the decade when the TC occurred. The upper envelope is the total estimated mortality burden for CONUS resulting from all TCs occurring during the prior 172 months (see Supplementary Fig. 3). c, Official deaths directly resulting from TCs for each month according to NOAA National Hurricane Center and NOAA National Weather Service6,7. The y-axis scale is the same for b and c.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
At Grist, Laura Mallonee has just published a critically important article on the Texas flood recovery and how unincorporated boundaries are impacting equitable recovery. I was happy to chat with Laura about my ongoing research on these issues in Texas and California. grist.org/extreme-weat...
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Texas floods showed why many rural communities feel abandoned in a crisis
Almost a third of Americans live in unincorporated communities beyond city limits, where disaster aid can confuse and frustrate.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Holy moly... our NIH grant wasn't canceled! I'm so thrilled! But that also means I now have TWO intense community-engaged research projects scheduled for Spring/Summer 2026...! 🧿 Wish me luck 🧿
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Life is chaotic right now, but watching this little Swallowtail caterpillar on my fennel plant grow and transform has been so thrilling this past week!
A series of three photographs showing a Swallowtail butterfly caterpillar grow and turn into a chrysalis.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I blame the massive hills and steep paths! I'm constantly stumbling around campus too!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You got this! I'm looking forward to reading the papers!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Yep, I need to refill our back-up water supply!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Yes! It seems to keep going, rattling the windows at the end of the work day today!
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I think so!
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Right near our neighborhood, woke us up with the house swaying and a frenzy of alarms going off!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Calls on Syracuse University to Fire Professors Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's
Murder or Face Loss of Federal Funding
September 17, 2025 | Press Release
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24)
today issued the following statement after reports surfaced o that two professors at Syracuse University mocked the brutal murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk:
"While Americans across the country are mourning the tragic murder of Charle Kirk, two Syracuse University professors, Jenn Jackson and Farhana Sultana, used their platforms to celebrate and mock his death," said Congresswoman Tenney.
Their appalling remarks included comments such as 'rest in piss, 'give him what he valued: no empathy, referring to him as 'trash, and even thanking a so-called 'witch' for cursing his life."
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By Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. - Syracuse University said
Wednesday it had taken swift action to address an uproar over social media posts made by two professors about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In a statement, the university implied it had placed both professors on leave and promised to treat the matter "with utmost seriousness.
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