Defining Resiliency: envisioning an equitable future in light of climatechange
Deborah Helaine Morris is an urban plannerfocused at the nexus of climate change and social equity. Most recently, as the Executive Director of Resiliency Policy, Planning, and Acquisitions at the NewYork City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Morris created anew team, focused on the development of policy and programs to lead aggressiveclimate change adaption in affordable housing with a focus on flood riskmitigation. This work includes the development of flood resiliencystandards for new affordable housing in waterfront communities; long-termcommunity planning initiatives, including the creation and implementation ofthe Resilient Edgemere Community Plan; and the management of a $90-millionproperty buyout program. Deborah is currently a Loeb Fellow at the HarvardGraduate School of Design.
She received a Master’s in City Planning and Urban Design fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of the Arts from theUniversity of Michigan.
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of Architecture.