Shelley McMullen

Shelley McMullen is a doctoral candidate in planning, geography and design at University of Colorado Denver. Beginning her career in civil engineering with expertise in flood management, she later earned master's degrees in public administration and urban planning to deepen her understanding of development regulations and policy. As a graduate student, she has researched environmental and hazard related planning and land use policies across both international and domestic contexts. Her dissertation explores tensions between land use planning and disaster risk management in Rwanda. McMullen serves on the policy impact committee for North American Alliance of Hazards and Disaster Research Institutes and the executive committee for Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure graduate student council. She currently teaches Disasters and Climate Change Planning as an adjunct lecturer and consults for Headwaters Economics Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire to provide technical assistance for improving communities’ wildfire resilience planning.