PLAN INTEGRATION - Key Persons

Allison Hardin

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City of Myrtle Beach, Planner and Coastal Hazards Education Specialist

Angelo Marino

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Member of the Core Team
GIS Manager

Anna McGinty

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Member of the Core Team
Chief Resilience Officer

Chad Berginnis

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Association of State Floodplain Managers, Executive Director

Chanel Jones

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Member of the Core Team
Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator

Dr. Matthew Malecha

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Professional Research Experience Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Matthew Malecha is a Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His research focuses on community resilience to natural hazards-especially the roles of plans, policies, and regulations, and their interactions with underlying social and spatial characteristics. His work has been published in leading planning and hazards journals, including the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Natural Hazards Review, Land Use Policy, and the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. As a postdoc with NIST's Community Resilience Group, Malecha is exploring community understanding and expectations of resilience, adaptation, and sustainability planning, using social science methods to investigate areas of overlap, barriers to action, and opportunities to improve effectiveness.

Dr. Philip Berke

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Director
Research Professor, Department of City & Regional

Research Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning; Director, Center for Resilient Communities and the Environment, Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Siyu Yu

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Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Core Faculty With the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas a & M University

Dr. Siyu Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a core faculty with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Her experience spans land use, plan integration, and resilience issues in the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan. Much of Dr. Yu's current research focuses on the development, application, and extension of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) evaluation methodology. The aim of this research is to better understand relationships among the network of land use and development plans and policies, and social and physical vulnerability to hazards and climate change. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape and Urban Planning, and the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Before arriving at Texas A&M, she worked as a senior urban planner at the Urban Planning and Design Institute of Shenzhen, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University and is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Academies.

George Homewood

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Member of the Core Team

Jacqueline Cardoza

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Member of the Core Team
Planning Consultant

Jaimie Hicks Masterson

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Director of Texas Target Communities

Ms. Masterson, AICP, is director of Texas Target Communities (TTC) at Texas A&M University, a high impact service-learning program that works alongside underserved communities to plan for resilience. Based on this work, in 2019, the Liberty County Strategic Plan received the national Silver Planning Achievement Award from the American Planning Association. She is author of "Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters," which focuses on hazard mitigation strategies and tools for government officials, planners, and emergency managers that can be incorporated pre-disaster. She is the engagement coordinator Institute for Sustainable Communities and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard project funded by the Department of Homeland Security and a part of the Center for Coastal Resilience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Masterson also consults with small communities to develop comprehensive plans, economic development plans, and other planning needs to fold and infuse resilience practices into community initiatives.