resilience.org, June 2026
Daniel Aldrich is Dean’s Professor of Resilience at Northeastern University in Boston and author of five books, including Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery and Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters. He is an expert in social capital and disaster recovery whose research was shaped by fleeing Hurricane Katrina with his family and enhanced by service as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). His insights have obvious relevance for readers of Resilience.org and for everyone seeking to make our communities more robust in the face of the crises now bearing down on them.
After reading Building Resilience, I contacted Daniel and he kindly agreed to an interview.
