Ameya Pawar

Ameya Pawar served two terms on Chicago’s City Council, co-developed social intelligence, and is a Leadership in Government Fellow with the Open Society Foundations and a senior fellow with the Economic Security Project.

FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina

Resettlement in Place: A New Model for COVID19 Recovery

This national crisis calls for a new model for economic disaster recovery. We propose a new strategy ‘resettlement in place’ – it is based on best practices in refugee resettlement and social intelligence, a model to harness local data and lessons learned from previous disasters, including Chicago’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

April 6, 2020