RISE 2019 Conference

Transforming University Engagement In Pre- and Post-Disaster Environments: Lessons from Puerto Rico

Leaders' Roundtable: Envisioning a New Paradigm

 

Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, November 19

Location: Ballroom - Campus Center

Impacts from disaster events touch every part of a community.  The economic risks and opportunities that resilience planning represents, coupled with community priorities, assets and vulnerabilities, sets the table for a rich discussion to inform the design of a new approach by local community leaders to increasingly intense and extreme weather events.  In short, what does a resilient community that is livable, secure and designed for anticipated, and unanticipated impacts from extreme weather events, look like and include?

Moderator

 


Michelle Wyman
Executive Director, National Council for Science and the Environment

Roundtable Leader

 


Daniel Cotter
Principal Director, US DHS Office of Science and Technology


Faith Hall
Co-Founder, Dominion Advisory Group, Ltd.


Peter Lopez
Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 2


Vilda Vera Mayuga
Deputy Secretary for Economic Opportunity, New York Department of State


Jorge Iván Vélez-Arocho
President, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico