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Resiliency Depends on Equity: Applying National Lessons to Local Communities
February 8, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Have you or your organization experienced extreme weather? Your community? In 2021 the United States experienced extreme weather; extreme temperatures reaching 115 degrees, mega-drought, wildfires, extreme winter storms leaving millions without power, extreme rain and flash floods, flooding, a derecho and tornadoes, earthquakes…
Cady Seabaugh is addressing the urgency of climate change in her work with affordable housing development, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 5:30 PM, virtually, as a discussion forum in design, equity, and operations – before, during, and after extreme weather crises. Cady will take her experiences with extreme weather from Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Western Virgin Islands, and bring lessons learned home, to your Gateway region.
Join in this discussion forum as we gain understanding of designing-in community connections, resiliency, communication, operations, and policy in your built environment. Resiliency Depends on Equity.
For communities to become truly equitable, all people need to have access to the same levels of resilience to climate change and social upheavals. This program will include an overview of the threats to the St. Louis region for climate change, how these threats disproportionately affect low-income residents, and how lessons learned from other regions of the country can be applied to help mitigate the impacts on lower income people. The discussion will pull from real-life examples of resiliency and offer suggestions of policies, financial sources, and design adaptations for applying those solutions to the lower Midwest.
SPEAKER
- Cady S. Seabaugh, (she, her, hers) LEED AP BD+C, Senior Vice President, Director of New Markets Tax Credits and Strategic Initiatives, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.
As an urban planner, green building professional, and LEED-AP (BD+C), Cady has extensive expertise in sustainable building, green neighborhood development, and the green building certification process. She serves as the senior sustainability executive for McCormack Baron Salazar, a national leader in the development and management of affordable housing. Her team ensures that the sustainability and resiliency goals established through a consensus-based community-driven planning process are effectively executed in the design, construction, and operations of each development project.
Cady has served as the sustainability lead for more than fifty housing developments and served as the project manager to retrofit more than 500 kW of solar photovoltaic panels on existing housing sites in St. Louis, MO. She previously served as chair of USGBC’s international Location and Planning Technical Assistance Group and is a member of USGBC’s international Technical Committee.
