Workshop 7 Speakers

Dr. Todd Bridges is a Professor of Practice in resilient and sustainable systems in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Prior to joining UGA in 2023, Todd had a 30-year career in research with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and for 17 years served as the Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Environmental Science for the U.S. Army and the Corps of Engineers, where his leadership in innovation focused on the development of sustainable infrastructure. Todd founded the Corps’ Engineering with Nature® Program (www.engineeringwithnature.org) in 2010, which includes a broad range of research, field-scale applications, multi-sector collaborations, and communication efforts to advance the delivery of nature-based solutions. Among his many publications, Todd led a 5-year collaboration across the public and private sectors to develop and publish International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management. Todd and the EWN Program were contributors to the White House report Opportunities to Accelerate Nature-Based Solutions: A Roadmap for Climate Progress, Thriving Nature, Equity, & Prosperity. Among other awards, Dr. Bridges received a Distinguished Presidential Rank Award from President Biden in 2021 for exceptional leadership, accomplishments, and service.

Marc is a senior project manager in WK Dickson’s Watershed Services group, emphasizing municipal stormwater infrastructure, including planning and design, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, innovative and sustainable site design, and stormwater SCM design. In addition to his proficiency in modeling, Marc’s expertise includes managing various projects that involve planning and designing innovative water quality and ecological engineering components for Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs), Low Impact Development (LID), and infrastructure upgrades. Marc has both an undergraduate and Master of Science degree in Biological Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina; a certified Professional Hydrologist; and a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer.

A native of the South Carolina barrier islands, Erin Stevens acquired a Bachelors Degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University and a first-hand understanding of the power of varying environmental factors in shaping the human experience. To further explore this phenomenon, she moved to Manhattan to pursue urban studies at Columbia University. After a series of internships she completed her Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia.

In her professional career, Erin has worked on a variety of planning and design projects including a federally-funded transit study for the Charleston region, the redevelopment of an environmentally sensitive low-impact residential neighborhood within a highly contaminated watershed, and development guidelines and public space design for multiple mixed-use and infill developments in the Charleston region. In 2016, Erin founded Surculus, a Charleston-based landscape architecture and urban design firm focused on increasing resilience and effectively integrating ecologically sensitive systems into urbanized and other human-affected contexts. In addition to her practice, she currently teaches a design studio within Clemson University’s Master of Resilient Urban Design Program.

Dr. B.D. Wortham-Galvin is Director of the Master of Resilient Urban Design Program and Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Clemson University. Her research focuses on those people and places left out of traditional design and development decisions, as well as alternative design praxis. She works with communities on issues of equity and resilience in managing change in rural, suburban, and urban places; the Daily Journal of Commerce named her one of Oregon’s Women of Vision in 2015 and the Environmental Design Research Association the 2018 Paper of the Year based on this work. She holds degrees in American Civilization, Anthropology, Historic Preservation, Architecture, and History and Theory of Art, Architecture & Environmental Studies from Brown University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, and MIT.