Collateral Consequences Series – Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters, and Elections 

Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters, and Elections 

November 21, 2025 @ 12:00pm ET (zoom) 

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In our fifth session of the Collateral Consequences Series, join us for a discussion of how extreme weather events and natural disasters have affected elections and what we can learn from past disasters about how to better protect elections in the future. This discussion will feature Karen Brinson Bell, co-founder and principal of Advance Elections and former executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections who oversaw the state’s response to Hurricane Helene in 2024; Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has written and spoken about climate impacts on elections; and Wayde Marsh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who is working on a book on how mass tragedies, including natural disasters, create trauma with political effects.