Brookings Institute program director to discuss post-disaster resilience at May 23 Rice Kinder Institute Forum

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Brookings Institute program director to discuss post-disaster resilience at May 23 Rice Kinder Institute Forum

HOUSTON – (May 21, 2018) – Amy Liu, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, will discuss how to stay resilient after disasters during her May 23 talk, “Resilience and Opportunity Following Disruptive Events,” part of the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s lecture series.

Amy Liu (Submitted photo)

The Kinder Institute Forum event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, located at 1001 Bissonnet St. The forum is free and open to the public; RSVP at https://bit.ly/2rQ8ayM.

Who:              Amy Liu, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute.

What:             “Resilience and Opportunity Following Disruptive Events,” a Kinder Institute Forum event.

When:            7 p.m. May 23.

Where:           Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St.

Liu is a national expert on cities and metropolitan areas and focuses on translating research and insights into real-world action. As director of Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program, which she co-founded in 1996, Liu pioneered the program’s signature approach to policy and practice, which uses rigorous research to inform strategies for economic growth and opportunity. Liu has worked directly on such strategies with scores of public and private sector leaders in regions around the country, including Chicago, Phoenix, Kansas City, New Orleans and upstate New York.

Most recently, Liu authored “Remaking Economic Development: The Markets and Civics of Continuous Growth and Prosperity,” in which she argues that city and metropolitan leaders must adopt a broader vision of economic development that can deliver economic growth, prosperity and inclusion for all residents. In her book, she discusses the limitations of existing strategies, outlines five principles that define a new model of economic development and highlights innovations underway in cities and metropolitan areas across the country emblematic of this broader vision.

In 2011, Liu was lead editor of “Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita,” a volume of essays exploring ways to accelerate the region’s recovery. This built on her co-authorship of the New Orleans Index, a multiyear series of reports that tracked New Orleans’ progress in the aftermath of Katrina.

Media interested in attending the event may contact Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777 or amym@rice.edu.

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Kinder Institute website: https://kinder.rice.edu/

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Photo credit: Submitted photo.

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