Our Team

Kristiana Allen is a risk communication and learning specialist with the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium’s Education and Engagement Team. She also is a member of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory’s Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Engagement Team.

Based at Jackson State University, Kristiana translates technical severe weather science results for diverse audiences through training sessions, extension publications and outreach products.

She works to educate residents in the Southeast about severe weather events that occur in the region, safe sheltering, receiving severe weather alerts, administering first aid and more so they can make advised, life-saving decisions in the face of weather emergencies.

Kristiana has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and media studies with a minor in theater from Jackson State. She has experience as an elementary school teacher and a high school theater, speech and debate teacher. Through an internship with WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi, she has experience with digital publishing.

The VORTEX-SE Engagement Team supports the transfer of information between the people whose livelihoods depend on accurate and timely information on severe weather and the VORTEX-SE scientists, researchers, project team and advisory council.