Building Capacity with Frontline Communities: Resilience Hubs for All - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Recorded On: 10/10/2025

Resilience hubs are community-serving facilities tailored to strengthen daily relationships between neighbors and capacity to recover after emergencies. Hubs can also catalyze city-wide resilience and sustainability. This panel will share lessons learned designing a wide variety of resilience hubs with community-based organizations in the U.S., including Puerto Rico.

Learning objectives:

Build an appreciation for the relevance of community-based organizations defining design priorities in the context of climate change.
Share the value of resilience hubs—economically, socially, and environmentally—across scales of neighborhood, city, and region.
Apply processes that tailor public engagement strategies to the needs and capacity of each community organization.
Consider the flexibility of resilience hubs and how they might apply in a variety of unique situations and locations.

José Juan Terrasa-Soler, ASLA, PLA

Partner

Marvel Architects, Landscape Architects

José Juan Terrasa-Soler is a CLARB Certified landscape architect, environmental scientist, and professor with over 25 years of experience. Originally from Arecibo, Puerto Rico, he holds degrees from Mount Saint Mary’s College (Maryland), The University of Michigan, Yale University, and Harvard University. He has led teams in corporate, governmental, and nonprofit sectors. Currently a Partner at MARVEL, his work focuses on the intersection of ecology and design, including green infrastructure and sustainable urban design. José Juan is also a founding faculty member at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico's Master of Landscape Architecture program.

Shannon Lee

Associate Principal

Mithun

Shannon is deeply committed to urban placemaking and community empowerment in the Pacific Northwest. Her collaborative spirit benefits a wide range of design and planning projects. As a landscape architect, she works closely with clients throughout the life of a project, from initial concept through on-site construction. Her work is characterized by a sensitive approach to land and water, which layers different uses and natural ecologies to create connections between communities and their built environment.