Award Name
Open Access Junior Award Winner
Researcher ORCID Identifier
0009-0004-0346-6671
Award Date
2026
Faculty Sponsor
Fred Leichter
Description/Abstract
This zine, created for Professor Kareem Collie's Design & Equity seminar at The Hive, examines disaster relief efforts in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta following the landfall of ex-Typhoon Halong on October 12th, 2025. Halong displaced over 1,600 people in nearly fifty Alaska Native communities. The project combines journalistic reporting from local Alaskan news sources with library resources that grounded the research in anti-colonial and environmental justice frameworks. This zine uses an equity-driven lens to deconstruct how colonial policies continue to shape disparate impacts of climate change. It also illuminates how complex systems of oppression emerge over time. Overall, the decolonization of disaster relief requires community-specific data-driven risk assessments and the return of authority, resources, and decision-making to Yup’ik communities.
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Knapp, Emma, "Equitable Disaster Relief in Western Alaska: Rebuilding the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta After Typhoon Halong" (2026). 2026 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award. 2.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cclura_2026/2
