Judanne Lennox-Morrison is a third-year doctoral student in the urban and regional science program at Texas A&M University at College Station. She holds a master's of urban planning from Texas A &M and a bachelor's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Technology, Jamaica. Her academic research lies at the intersection of collaborative radical planning, hazard mitigation, community development, and spatial geographies of race. As an emerging evaluator, Lennox-Morrison uses the lens of culturally responsive evaluation and program evaluation as a critical feature of her feminist participatory action research methods. In addition, she is interested in the adaptation/adoption of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery programs in rural communities of color.
Lennox-Morrison uses a social justice, asset-based participatory praxis in her work with communities and colleagues. She values community ownership, agency, and co-production as a critical parts of disaster risk reduction. She has over ten years of experience as a practitioner in planning and hazard mitigation, disaster risk management, geographic information system, facilitation, simulation design, and project management. She hopes to support transformative approaches to the challenges of underserved communities by leveraging her skills and experience. When not doing research, she enjoys the beach, cooking, entertaining, and reading her Kindle.