Webinar at 2:30 p.m. ET Tuesday on how rural communities can better prepare for, and recover from, disasters

Rural communities can get left out of preparing for disasters and have a harder time recovering from them. A webinar from 2:30 to 4 p.m. ET Tuesday will discuss on how to improve disaster supports for rural communities. Speakers from the rural Midwest, South, West, and Native lands will examine the impacts of extreme weather events and showcase examples of successful planning, response, and recovery initiatives and highlight policy and program changes that can help rural communities get back on their feet faster.

Register here. Speakers at the event will be:

• Kimiko Barrett, community planning assistance manager for wildfire, Headwaters Economics
• Nikki Cooley, co-manager, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals' Tribal Climate Change Program, Northern Arizona University
• Alison Davis, H. B. Price Professor of Agricultural Economics and executive director of the Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky, University of Kentucky
• Farah Ahmad, chief of staff for Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Xochitl Torres Small, USDA undersecretary for Rural Development
• Ines Polonius, CEO, Communities Unlimited, sponsor of the event
• Corianne Payton Scally, senior fellow, the Urban Institute
• Sarah Rosen Wartell, president, the Urban Institute