People
Christa Remington
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: clremington@usf.edu
Office: ALN 133G
Specialty Areas
Nonprofit Management
Emergency Management
Courses
PAD 5173: Foreign Aid and Non-Governmental Organization Management
PAD 6060: Public Organizational Theory and Leadership
PAD 6146: Nonprofit Management and Leadership
PAD 6934: Emergency Management
BIO
Christa L. Remington, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the 51°µÍø. She earned her PhD from Florida International University in 2017. Her research examines how nonprofit organizations, NGOs, grassroots groups, and emergency response agencies interact across the disaster lifecycle, with a focus on strengthening post-disaster response and recovery. She works to improve cross-sector coordination, enhance culturally competent disaster services, and reduce the mental health burdens experienced by those involved in disaster response.
Dr. Remington's recent work highlights the often-overlooked roles of NGOs, community-based organizations, and "zero responders" — individuals who engage in immediate, emergent response activities prior to, or in the absence of, formal emergency services — and examines how they interact with government and nonprofit actors to shape disaster outcomes. She also studies the cultural competence and emotional labor of NGO workers, first responders, and nonprofit personnel operating in post-disaster environments, with a focus on how disaster systems can better support these efforts in ways that are sustainable, trauma-informed, and equitable.
Dr. Remington's scholarship has been published in journals such as the Public Administration Review, Natural Hazards, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and has been supported by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Gulf Research Program and the Natural Hazards Center.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Remington is a nonprofit consultant and serves as the Emergency Management Research Coordinator at the Center for Leadership Research and Action. She is also the founder of a program in Haiti dedicated to education, leadership, and community building, helping empower local communities to drive sustainable change.