Julie Baxter
Julie Baxter is a community planner with URS Corporation. Her areas of expertise include hazard mitigation, emergency management, floodplain management, community wildfire protection planning, and public and stakeholder outreach. She has worked as a project manager preparing multihazard mitigation plans at the state and local levels to meet the requirements of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. She also has experience reviewing hazard mitigation projects as part of the benefit-cost analysis team for Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance National Technical Review and teaching FEMA’s Mitigation Planning Workshop for Preparing and Reviewing Local Plans.
Julie previously worked as the communications specialist at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Julie holds a master’s degree in community and regional planning from the University of Oregon and a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Michigan.