Eileen Young is a PhD student in the Disaster Science and Management program. She graduated in 2016 from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies and in 2019 from the University of Delaware with a Master of Science in Disaster Science and Management. She is currently engaged in research using agent-based modeling of social factors in evacuation from fire. Her interests are in collective behavior, resilience in vulnerable populations, and the evolving role of computing and big data in social science.