Resilience
Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium
- Location: Greater Houston
- Client: Houston Endowment, Kinder Foundation, C. & G. Mitchell Foundation
- Project date: October 2017 - April 2019
- Project URL: HoustonConsortium.com
- Reports: Strategies Report, Projects Database, Flood Next Time, Research Documents
The Consortium was founded by three philanthropic foundations in Houston after Hurricane Harvey to consolidate, analyze, and disseminate the best flood mitigation research available to the public and to regional decision-makers. As a member of the project management team at Huitt-Zollars, I was the prime point of contact for coordinating academic researchers and non-profit organizations and translating their work into publicly accessible fact sheets and briefing documents.
I handled all communication among researchers and experts, coordinated the project schedule and bi-weekly meetings, and engaged with the foundations directly. Additionally, I interviewed the experts to produce over ten fact sheets, five briefing documents, and three reports. All documents are geared toward allowing a lay-person to understand flooding issues so that the public can push for solutions that work best for their families and communities, and public officials can make the best-informed decisions for the region.