Danielle Wood

Biography

Danielle Wood serves as the Director of the Global Adaptation Initiative and an associate professor of the practice at the Environmental Change Initiative. She has concurrent faculty appointments with the Keough School of Public Affairs, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences in the College of Engineering, and is a faculty affiliate with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. She has also held positions as the Director of Community-Based Research at the Institute for Social Concerns and the Associate Director of Research at the Center for Civic Innovation.

Wood received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Urban and Regional Planning with a minor in the LaFollette School of Public Affairs. Prior to her doctoral studies, she held consulting, nonprofit, and government positions in the U.S. and abroad focused on land use, environmental impact assessment, and conservation and sustainability planning. As a transdisciplinary, mixed-methods researcher, Wood has research interests in climate resilience and adaptation decision-support and planning, research translation processes, asset-based and sustainable development, community engagement and collective impact strategies, and evaluation in complex environments. She has been both PI and co-PI on a number of NSF-funded projects and government and nonprofit contracts in these areas.