Disaster Ever After: Planning for Post-Disaster Resilience - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Wes Michaels is a Principal of Spackman Mossop Michaels landscape architects. His work is focused on the integration of culture and ecology in urban landscapes. Wes was awarded the ASLA National Award of Excellence in 2018, 2012, 2009 and 2008 and a Fulbright Fellowship in 2009 for research and travel in Scandinavia. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The Graham Foundation for Fine Arts and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Jeff Carney is associate professor in the School of Architecture and Director of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) at the University of Florida. He is a registered architect and certified urban planner working at the interface of housing, neighborhoods, and ecosystems, with a focus on climate change adaptation. Jeff’s work in Florida is focused on the resilience of communities achieved through transdisciplinary and community-engaged design processes. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and master’s degrees in both architecture and city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tamara Orozco has led a 20 plus year career in the intersection of academia, participatory design, and disaster recovery. Her work focuses on forwarding the social and cultural assets of communities, promoting resiliency, cultural diversity and placemaking. She has focused on green infrastructure projects, specifically environmentally sensitive waterfront public infrastructure projects, and community participatory design projects. She is a founding member of the accredited School of Architecture PUCPR in Ponce, PR, where she has been a professor and Director of the Ecology and Environment Experimental Unit. Orozco graduated from the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University.