Outreach
This year marked major growth for the TxTC “Partnerships with Purpose” podcast, as we doubled our number of episodes, expanding both our reach and our impact. Our podcast continues to spotlight voices from across Southeast Texas and beyond, highlighting stories of community resilience, engaged scholarship, and environmental justice.
2025 Episodes at a Glance:
Getting to Know John T. Cooper Jr.: A Community Engagement Story (Part 1)
Community Engagement Rules of Thumb (Part 2)
Research for Communities (with Nathanael Rosenheim)
Meet the Cooper Scholars (with Jaelin Lopez and Windya Welideniya)
Sam Collins: A Celebration of Freedom (Part 1)
A Community Champion (Part 2)
Meet Galen Newman: Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (Part 1)
Developing Solutions for Fenceline Communities (Part 2)
Total downloads
Unique listeners since January
Episodes shared across academic, community, and planning networks
Presentations
Engaged Research Symposium A series of presentations and interactive dialogues on promising strategies, methods, and models - Chanam Lee, Jeewasmi Thapa, Garett Sansom, James Tate, Amal Bakchan, Mike Lopez
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference 2024 Imagination and innovation in university-community partnerships - Katherine Idziorek, Branden Born, Samina Raja, Marc Schlossberg, Jeewasmi Thapa
DOE2024 Urban Integrated Field Laboratory Principal Investigators Meeting Community and Stakeholder Engagement with Panel Discussion Panel - Jeewasmi Thapa, Ladd Keith, Khalia Young, and Katherine Lieberknecht
Community co-design, resilient solutions, and decision-making - Katherine Lieberknecht, Jeewasmi Thapa
APA Virtual National Planning Conference 2025 Communicating Disaster Resilience Through Film - Jim Schwab, Jeewasmi Thapa, and Cara Woods Serra
EPIC-Network Conference Sustainability Research + Innovation 2025 STAR TALK - Co-designing solutions for communities caught between floods and air pollution - Jeewasmi Thapa
Service – Committees and Boards
Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N) Board Representative: Jeewasmi Thapa
A global network turning university–community partnerships into engines for public impact.
Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) – Great Lakes Challenge Advisory
Representative: Jaimie Hicks Masterson
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) – Board of Gulf Education & Engagement Representative: John T. Cooper Jr.
The REACH Project – Board Member Representative: John T. Cooper Jr.
Heirs Property Research Committee
Representative: John T. Cooper Jr.
Center of Excellence in Climate Resilient and Equitable Housing (CECREH) Representative: John T. Cooper Jr.
TAMU Graduate and Professional School & Center for Teaching Excellence – Graduate Mentoring Academy Fellow Representative: Jeewasmi Thapa