Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard

Jaimie Hicks Masterson

Associate Director of Texas Target Communities, Texas A&M University

Jaimie Hicks Masterson is associate director of Texas Target Communities (TTC) at Texas A&M University. TTC collaboratively works with communities to mitigate threats to the economy, environment, and culture. With TTC, Masterson develops community training curriculum on community resilience, vulnerability and asset mapping, city planning, and hazard reduction and mitigation. Masterson also helps communities access the tools necessary to make the most of local time, talent, and treasure, as well as, connects faculty and student expertise to community needs in order to provide high-impact service learning while supplementing gaps in low community capacity.   

Masterson received her Master of Urban Planning from Texas A&M University and earned a Certificate in Environmental Hazard Management. While there, she worked within the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center to develop training curriculum on community resilience to disasters and educated practitioners across the country. Her thesis, Developing and Testing a Conceptual Framework for Flood Resilience, received first prize in the Engineering and Architecture Category for Student Research Week, the Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Award, and second prize for the Vice President of Research Diversity Award.  

Masterson has professional experience in public education where she designed and carried out lesson plans for under-represented populations. She also has background and experience in landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental design and received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University.  

Philip Berke, Ph.D.

Director, Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities at College Station, Texas A&M University

Philip Berke, Ph.D. is a professor of land use and environmental planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and Director of the Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities at College Station. His work lies at the intersection of land use planning, urban ecology, and community resilience to environmental hazards Philip is the co-recipient of several best article awards and honorable mention awards from the Journal of the American Planning Association, co-author of a book selected as one of the 100 Essential Books in Planning for the 20th Century by the American Planning Association, and served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. In 2013, he received the Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring by the University of North Carolina Graduate School. Philip’s research is currently supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate.