Joie Zhang is the Outreach Coordinator at Rebuild by Design, supporting research and outreach with government, coalitions, and funder stakeholders to utilize the “Atlas of Disaster”.

As a design researcher and service designer, Zhang is passionate about working at the intersection of community-centered design, climate justice, and innovation, to better understand what motivates public buy-in. Previously, she worked in the grassroots flooding preparedness space with Detroit residents, creating a behavior change framework to shift climate action preparedness from an individualized to collective experience.

Zhang is committed to leveraging her design research and community engagement skills to connect key stakeholders at the local, state, and federal levels to the information needed to more effectively prepare for disasters.