Appendix B

Public Info Session Participants

WORKSHOP #1 PART 1: BUYOUTS AND OTHER FORMS OF STRATEGIC RELOCATION IN GREATER HOUSTON

RAY BELTRAN, Community Engagement Coordinator, Harris County, Precinct 1

PERLA GARCIA, Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience

MARCUS GLENN, Black United Fund of Texas

PAMELA GRAHAM, Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

DAVID GRIFFIN, JR., Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

DEBORAH JANUARY-BEVERS, President and Chief Executive Officer, Houston Wilderness

CLEO JOHNSON-MCLAUGHLIN, President, Black United Fund of Texas

BARBARA MCINTYRE, Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience

KEVIN MCKINNEY, Flood Victims of Richwood

DARNELL OZENNE, Black United Fund of Texas

SUSAN ROGERS, Associate Professor and Director of the Community Design Resource Center, University of Houston College of Architecture

SHIRLEY RONQUILLO, Co-Founder and Community Activist, Houston Department of Transformation

ANDREW RUMBACH, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University at College Station

MARCIAL SANCHEZ, Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience

RYAN SLATTERY, Senior Advisor of Sustainability and Resilience, Houston Mayor’s Office

ELIZABETH VAN HORN, Urban Planner, Harris County Public Health

SHANNON VAN ZANDT, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University at College Station

CAROLYN WHITE, Urban Planner, Harris County Public Health

WORKSHOP #1 PART 2: STRATEGIC RELOCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION: COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES FROM PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS

TIFFANY ANDERSON, Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

CLYDE DIXON, Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

HILTON KELLEY, Founder and Director, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc.

LINDA KELLEY, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc.

L. MARIE KELLEY, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc.

WARREN KELLEY, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc.

LANDY PATIN, Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

OCTAVIA SANDERS, Resident of Port Arthur, Texas

MICHELLE SMITH, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc.

WORKSHOP #2: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION ON FLORIDA’S GULF COAST

JOSEPH AYALA,¹ Research Assistant, Student, Columbia Climate School

ALEJANDRO BRITO, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

HILARY L. BRUNO, Assistant Director, Community Development, Pasco County

KENNETH BRYANT, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Minority Health Coalition of Pinellas, Inc.

CARMELA CRUZ, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

GETULIO GONZALEZ-MULATTIERI, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

EUGENE HENRY, Community Hazard Mitigation, ISO/Verisk

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¹ At the time of the workshop, Joseph Ayala worked as an associate program manager at the CLEO Institute.

TISHA HOLMES, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Florida State University

BETTY JEAN-JEREMIE,² Executive Director, Governing Council for Mercy Focus

DAYNA LAZARUS, Housing Technical Advisor, Florida Housing Coalition

RUSSELL MEYER, Executive Director, Florida Council of Churches

LEROY MOORE, Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Tampa Housing Authority

JERRY MURPHY, Murphy Consulting and Faculty Consultant, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida

CHELSEA NELSON, Resident of Madeira Beach, Florida

SIDNEY PERSON, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

ELISEO SANTANA, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

MARILENA SANTANA, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

TREVOR TATUM, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

CHRIS UEJIO, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University

ANTWAUN WELLS, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

FLORENCE WRIGHT, Resident of St. Petersburg, Florida

WORKSHOP #3 PART 1: COMMUNITY VIABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN COASTAL LOUISIANA

CHIEF ROMES ANTOINE, Avoyel-Taensa Tribe

JAY CLUNE, President, Nicholls State University

WINDELL CUROLE, General Manager, South Lafourche Levee District

ELDER CHIEF SHIRELL PARFAIT DARDAR, Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and Chair, Louisiana Governor’s Commission on Native Americans

ELDER THERESA DARDAR, Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish

ALESSANDRA JEROLLEMAN, Community Resilience Specialist and Applied Researcher, Lowlander Center

GARY LAFLEUR, President, Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Foundation, and Professor, Biological Sciences, Nicholls State University

CHIEF ALBERT NAQUIN, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation

CHIEF DEVON PARFAIT, Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw

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² At the time of the workshop, Betty Jean-Jeremie worked as a climate equity program manager at the CLEO Institute.

ELDER ROSINA PHILIPPE, Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe and President of the First Peoples’ Conservation Council

WORKSHOP #3 PART 2: ASSISTED RESETTLEMENT AND RECEIVING COMMUNITIES IN LOUISIANA

GENIE ARDOIN, Resident of Houma, Louisiana

BETTE BILLIOT, The United Houma Nation Indigenous Tribe

BETH BUTLER, Executive Director, A Community Voice

KELLI CUNNINGHAM, Director, Terrebonne Parish Housing and Human Services

JESSICA DOMANGUE, Terrebonne Parish Councilwoman, Houma District 5

PAT FORBES, Executive Director, Louisiana Office of Community Development

JONATHAN FORET, Executive Director, South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center

MARK GOODSON, Principal, Planning and Resilience Practice Lead, CSRS

DEE KNOWLES,³ Resident of Southern Louisiana

CYNDI NGUYEN, Executive Director, Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training

SAM OLIVER, Executive Director, Acadiana Center for the Arts

THADDEUS (MIKE) PELLEGRIN, Resident of Houma, Louisiana

CHRIS PULASKI, Director of Planning and Zoning, Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government

CINDY ROBERTSON, Director, micah 6:8

BONNIE THERIOT, Resident of Houma, Louisiana

MARK VANLANDINGHAM, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Studies of Displaced Populations, Tulane University

SHANA WALTON, Toups Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of English, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies, Nicholls State University

CHERRY WILMORE, Resident of Houma, Louisiana

SHERRY WILMORE, Resident of Houma, Louisiana

PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES TO PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED

LAURA DHUWE, Chief of Mitigation, Florida Division of Emergency Management

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³ At the time of the workshop, Dee Knowles worked as a community liaison at micah 6:8.

JEFFREY GIERING, Section State Hazard Mitigation Office, Hazard Mitigation Technical Services, Lousiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness

JANA HENDERSON, Mitigation Office Director, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

KATHY HOPKINS, Manager, Flood Mitigation Assistance and State Flood Grant Programs, Texas Water Development Board

MICHAEL JOHNSON, Public Assistance Officer, Alabama Emergency Management Agency

KELLY MAIN, Executive Director, Buy-in Community Planning

SABRINA SIMMS, Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 4

COURTNEY WALD-WITTKOP, Program Manager, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Office of Climate Resilience, and New Jersey’s Blue Acres Program

ELYSE ZAVAR, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science, University of North Texas

VIRTUAL FOCUSED DISCUSSION: MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA GULF COAST COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES ON MANAGED RETREAT

CASI (KC) CALLAWAY, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Mobile, Alabama

DERRICK EVANS, Turkey Creek Community Initiatives in Gulfport, Mississippi

SARA GUICE, Director, Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

GORDON JACKSON, Board President, Steps Coalition

CAROLYN MARTIN, Planning and Grants Administrator, City of Ocean Springs Community Development

CHRIS MONFORTON, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

JANE NGUYEN, Program Manager and Community Health Worker, Boat People SOS, Biloxi, Mississippi

DAVID PERKES, Professor and Director, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio College of Architecture, Art and Design, Mississippi State University

NICOLE TAYLOR, Planner/Geographic Information Systems Analyst, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission

BARBARA WECKESSER, Head of Concerned Citizens of Cherokee Subdivision and Resident of Pascagoula, Mississippi

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