Coalitions That Hold When Recovery Gets Crunchy | Chris Ko | Wildfire Leadership Summit 2026. Watch the full session from the 2026 Wildfire Leadership Summit in Sonoma, California, presented by After the Fire USA.
Chris Ko, Executive-in-Residence at the R&S Kayne Foundation, gives a Day Two keynote on coalitions that hold when recovery gets crunchy.
Chris draws on the work of CORE, the Community Oriented Network for Scientific Observation, Recovery, and Tracking of Impacts from Urban Megafires, including free contaminant testing support for survivors. He then offers three ideas for the long haul: how to hold when you're not whole, the long cure, and whether it is over or just the beginning.
Topics covered: recovery coalitions, Kayne Foundation, CORE contaminant testing, urban megafire, post-fire contamination, philanthropy and disaster recovery, Chris Ko.
The Wildfire Leadership Summit is an invitation-only, three-day convening from After the Fire USA, an initiative of Rebuild NorthBay Foundation. 2026 Summit: September 15–17, 2026, The Hanna Center, Sonoma, California.
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