First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Lindsay,Sansom,Assistant Research Professor,"My research efforts over the last 10 years have revolved around embracing and utilizing the community-based participatory action research approach to ensure that results from my endeavors are meaningful, actionable, and empower communities with tools for enacting positive change.
Socio-Ecological Systems Framework: A roadmap for collective-action
Within the context of complex environmental challenges faced by modern society, the communities that are most at-risk of negative health outcomes are those that are underserved by traditional governmental services and lack the power or voice to advocate for positive change. Marginalized communities are at a higher risk to natural and anthropogenic hazards, face greater prevalence of water insecurity, and face an unequal access to health promoting activities, such as greenspace and recreation. Building on the Socio-Ecological Systems Framework, my research provides actionable insights into the mechanisms for effective collective action, aiming to bridge the gap between vulnerable communities and equitable access to environmental resources and public health services.",Assistant Research Professor,Environmental and Occupational Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n242ea6f7
James,Burdine,Regents Professor,"Community Health Development is a domain at the intersection of Community Development, Health Promotion, and Public Health. As Founding Director and Co-PI of the Center for Community Health Development my research interests focus on learning how to more effectively increase community problem-solving capacity. Using the Partnership Approach, a socio-ecological framework and social determinants of health perspective, our projects examine factors influencing population health status and intervention strategies to improve health status and access to care. A key component of these activities are community health status assessments both as a data collection tool and community organizing focal point.","Professor||Founding Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Community Health Development",Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n245f9b44
Andrea,Roberts,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She is also the founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice initiative documenting Black placemaking history and grassroots preservation. Dr. Roberts engages in ethnographic, archival, and action research using digital humanities platforms to make marginalized groups' endangered places visible and relevant to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. Dr. Roberts has written peer-reviewed articles on black placemaking history and practice, digital engagement, intersectionality, and preservation policy. Her current project is a book on Black historic preservation practice. The Urban Affairs Association recognized her with the 2019 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Honorable Mention Award. She is also a 2020 Visiting Scholar at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a 2019 recipient of a National Trust African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant. Dr. Roberts earned a Ph.D. in community and regional planning at The University of Texas at Austin.",Associate Director||Assistant Professor,Center for Housing and Urban Development||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n661156d9
Rebekka,Dudensing,Associate Professor and Extension Specialist,"Dr. Rebekka Dudensing's research and extension responsibilities include community and regional economic development, rural-urban alignment, social and physical infrastructure of rural communities, and socioeconomic and fiscal impact analysis. She provides economic analysis for industries, tourism events, and natural disasters and specializes in adapting impact models to unique circumstances. She also works with communities to evaluate opportunities for local and regional economic development and studies the roles of business and social structures in development. She is particularly interested in the quality-conscious and cost-effective provision of services, including education, healthcare, and transportation, in rural areas. Much of her research is driven by the concerns of Extension clientele; she strives to find solutions to local concerns while projecting these issues to a wider audience through applied research and methodological improvements.","Professor and Extension Specialist, Agricultural Economics",Texas A&M AgriLIFE Extension,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na29639d0
Hope Hui,Rising,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Rising has expertise in Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Social Sciences, and Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning. She investigates multi-hazard community resilience as community-initiated, self-organizing interactions between humans, disasters, and the built environment to mitigate and reduce the impacts of hazards; focusing on psychophysiological and socioenvironmental factors that contribute to consensus-based and individual decision-making to make the commons more sustainable and accessible.
She has won Best Paper Awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Environmental Design Research Association, the EDRA Research Award, the Young Investigator Research Award from the Association of European Schools of Planning. Her engagement-based educational program was selected for Landscape Architecture Foundation's Educational Grant and the Alaska Airlines' Imagine Tomorrow Award.
Dr. Rising founded the Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative, an integrated program of education, research, and outreach for adapting individuals and communities to the impacts of extreme weather and disruptive events. She co-leads the TAMU Space Governance and Habitability Research Group and the Space Habitat Challenge Innovation X Project, an applied multidisciplinary project. She was a Visiting Scholar at the U. of Venice, a Visiting Professor at Penn State, a Promising Scholar at the U. of Oregon, and a Barbour Scholar at the U. of Michigan where she conducted policy research on water security for the Urban Security Group and the Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Transportation Research Institute.
Hope previously provided studio-level design leadership for the HOK Planning Group in New York City and worked as a project manager and lead designer for EDAW's and AECOM's East Coast headquarters. She received over a dozen design awards, including three from the American Society of Landscape Architects and four from the American Institute of Architects.",Fellow||Assistant Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning||Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd5e4e16
Selina,Johnson,Selina Marie Stasi,"Access to and physical activity promotion within underserved communities and communities of color, through community based research, asset mapping, and GIS analysis.
Research regarding physician-based physical activity counseling, prescription and referral, and youth engagement and empowerment to combat disparities in physical activity and health.
Linkages between community, clinic, and church, and the role public health practitioners play to leverage resources between them all",Instructional Assistant Professor,Health Science Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncbb3fa4b
Ivis,Garcia,Associate Professor,"Dr. Ivis Garc?a received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2015. Dr. Garc?a will join the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor Fall of 2022. Dr. Garc?a previously taught graduate and undergraduate community engagement in planning, planning communication, and studio courses in Chicago, Puerto Rico, and Salt Lake City. She also led the Westside Leadership Institute, an innovative undergraduate course that residents and students take together to develop a community project. Dr. Garc?a's research focuses on engagement, housing, and community development. She has received over $1 million in external research funding, including EPA, National Science Foundation, and the Natural Hazard Center. Dr. Garc?a has written 38 peer-reviewed journal articles, five book chapters, and 37 technical reports--including the first American Planning Association PAS Report on diversity, ""Planning with Diverse Communities."" Ivis has given 56 keynote or invited talks--including funded addresses at U. de Guadalajara, Columbia University, and Georgia Tech. Dr. Garc?a has chaired 15 master's committees and served on 11 Ph.D. committees. For her housing justice work in Puerto Rico with disaster victims, Ivis received the Ford Fellowship in 2022.",Associate Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf522bd7a
Heather,Clark,Research Assistant Professor,"Dr. Heather Clark served as led the evaluation of the Center for Community Health Development while it was a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded Prevention Research Center, and spent a decade evaluating community capacity building efforts, assisting in conducting community health assessments, designing evaluations for community-based partnerships and public health programs, and served as evaluator and co-investigator on a variety of other research and contract projects. Her research interests include program evaluation, community organizing and capacity building, and the evaluation of community based partnerships, specifically the use of interorganizational network analysis to examine growth in the partnerships. She serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two state-wide evaluation projects and have been a co-investigator on numerous supplemental grants and contracts, including assessment, evaluation, and other public health projects.",Research Assistant Professor,School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfd556d31