Dontá Council
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Dontá Council is an adviser on the Community and Economic Development team at the Atlanta Fed. His research focuses on the effects of natural hazards and disasters upon communities, particularly stressors and shocks to low-to-moderate-income communities.
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Biography
Dontá Council is an adviser on the Community and Economic Development team at the Atlanta Fed. His research focuses on the effects of natural hazards and disasters upon communities, particularly stressors and shocks to low-to-moderate-income communities.
Before joining the Atlanta Fed in 2020, Council spent over a decade working in the public and nonprofit sectors, focusing on research and community investment. In his previous role with the Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama, he was responsible for grantmaking to nonprofits across seven counties and investing in nonprofit capacity-building efforts. He has worked on a variety of applied research and community-based projects to understand the experiences of households and community-based organizations affected by disasters.
Council holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a doctorate in public administration and policy from Old Dominion University; he earned his master’s in public administration from Jacksonville State University. Council has served on the faculties of American University and Howard University.
Published Work
Federal Reserve work covering the latest six years.
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Research Publications
2022
Tyler, Jenna, Abdul-Akeen Sadiq, Dontá Council, and Douglas Noonan. "Floodplain Managers' Perceptions of Community Flood Concern, Mitigation, Preparedness, and Response in the United States." Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (June 17, 2022).
2021
Ann Carpenter, Dontá Council, and Jasmine Burnett. "Understanding How Community Resilience Can Inform Community Development in the Era of COVID." In COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience, 345–357. Cham, Switzerland: Springer (2021).
Dontá Council, Tihara Richardson, and Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf. "Key Elements of User Preferences for Flood Alerts and Implications for the Design and Development of Flood Alert or Warning Systems." In Communicating Climate Change, ed. Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, and Burton St. John III,116–132. London: Routledge (2021).
2020
Marina Saitgalina, and Dontá Council. "Contextualizing Performance of Coordinated Care Network of Veteran Services in Virginia." Journal of Social Service Research 46, no. 3 (2020).
2019
Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Lenahan L. O'Connell, Dontá Council, Khairul Azfi Anuar, David Chapman, Tancy Vandecar-Burdin, and Meagan M. Jordan. "Support for and Behavioral Responses to Tolls: Insights from Hampton Roads, Virginia." In Building a Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure for Long-Term Economic Growth, ed. Olga V. Smirnova,113–144. Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2019).
2018
Dontá Council, Michelle Covi, Wie Yusuf, Joshua Behr, Makayla Brown, and Virginia Sea Grant. "The 'New Normal' of Flooding in Portsmouth, Virginia: Perspectives, Experiences, and Adaptive Responses of Residents and Business Owners in Low to Moderate-Income Communities. Old Dominion University Digital Commons (2018).