Resilience Roundtable: Lieutenant Emily Ussery and Jack Heide, AICP

In the third episode of the APA Podcast series Resilience
Roundtable, host Rich Roths, AICP, talks with community planner
Jack Heide, AICP CFM, and Lieutenant Emily Ussery, PhD, about the
impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the US Virgin Islands. The
two discuss their unique reasons for working in the region, how
combining their expertise led to a more comprehensive recovery
effort, and the lessons they took away from their first disaster
response and recovery experience.


Emily is an epidemiologist with the Physical Activity and Health
Branch of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). She is also a lieutenant with the US Public
Health Service. Jack works as a planner for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) in Region II.