Senior Manager, Urban Resilience
Urban Land Institute
Washington, District of Columbia
Lian Plass is an Adjunct Lecturer (GIS) at Georgetown University and Senior Manager for the Urban Resilience program which provides ULI members, the public, and communities across the United States with information on how buildings, development, and cities can be more resilient in the face of climate change and other environmental vulnerabilities. Lian previously served as Sustainability Administrator for the City of North Miami where she led efforts to tackle difficult sustainability and resilience issues and has since worked in the private sector as a Senior Planner where she managed a wide range of planning and development projects including site rehabilitation, climate action plans, and code audits. Lian is passionate about applying technology to resolve difficult planning problems equitably, expeditiously, and cost-effectively including by leveraging new massive caches of publicly available data to learn more about communities, alongside finding creative ways to convey critical information about development projects and generate engagement in the planning process. Lian holds a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida, and a Bachelors of Arts in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.
Sunday, April 2, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM CDT