About Us
The Center for Community Resilience Research Innovation and Advocacy (CCRRIA) is an Organized Research Unit under the Program of Public Affairs and Security Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at UTRGV in collaboration with UTRGV’s Department of Sociology and the Texas Epidemic and Public Health Institute (TEPHI). We are a Transboundary convergence platform (TCP) connecting and sharing the university’s resilience related knowledge with our most vulnerable populations in the RGV, and simultaneously learning from their wisdom. The concept of CCRRIA emerged from the creation of the RISE Network at the 2019 RISE Conference, held at the University of Albany, (SUNY). Since then, it has been searching for a better understanding of the role that universities play in the pre and post environmental disasters, and their effects in the communities.
Conference Workshops
Academia’s Perspective
Community Resilience from Academia’s Perspective - The Ethics of Resilience Research: Redistributing Power Under Extreme Conditions
Plenary Student Panel
Student And Young Scholars’ Panel: The Future of Resilience
Discussion among City/County Judges
County Government Visions of Community Resilience Convened by Christian Corrales
Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez
Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza
Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda
Community Resilience
Community Resilience from the First Responder/Emergency Management Perspective
Community Resilience
Community Resilience from the Advocacy Perspective - Lawyering in extreme conditions
