Dr. Tracy Kijewski Correa

Dr. Tracy Kijewski-Correa a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She also serves as the William J. Pulte Director for the Pulte Institute for Global Development. Tracy’s dissertation research focused on novel techniques to monitor and assess the condition of civil infrastructure subjected to natural hazards, and her work now focuses on how to more holistically build the resilience of communities in the face of such hazards. In this video, Tracy shares her experience of simultaneously working on her PhD at Notre Dame and providing end-of-life care and nursing skills for her grandparents back at home. While it was an extremely challenging, Tracy shares how she powered through and later learned coping skills to navigate future difficult seasons in her life.