Cedar Spring Patterson is an interdisciplinary scholar of human geography, climate and environmental justice, and risk assessment methodologies. Cedar’s work pays attention to how differential access to power, politics, and knowledge show up in risk assessment and planning, and leverages methodological pluralism towards more comprehensive assessments. Cedar’s current natural hazard mitigation planning work develops and applies a novel approach to natural hazard and climate change risk assessments in the U.S. Cedar joined UNRULY as a methodological doctoral fellow in August 2025.