Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series: Amanda Martin, North Carolina Office of Resilience and Recovery

Amanda Martin, Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, North Carolina Office of Resilience & Recovery – “How to Innovate for Resilience in Existing Institutions: Climate Change in North Carolina”

Blog post: A conversation on statewide resilience

Amanda Martin has been named as a Deputy Chief Resilience Officer. Her primary area of focus will be housing projects. She is a city planner who specializes in resilient community and economic development. For the past three years, she ran the Southeast Disaster Recovery Partnership, where she oversaw capacity building and planning projects in four states, conducted applied research and built a network of recovery and resilience professionals across the Southeast and Caribbean. Ms. Martin graduates with her Doctor of Philosophy in City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill this spring.

This event, part of the Natural Hazards Resilience Speaker Series, is being held in Hanes Art Center 218 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If planning to attend, please RSVP to coastalresiliencecenter@unc.edu.

To see all events, visit the 2020 Spring Speakers Series page.