Brigid Shea
Brigid Shea is a Travis County Commissioner and former Austin City Council Member who is committed to tackling climate change and preparing residents for climate impacts.
Since being elected to the Travis County Commissioners Court in 2014, Brigid’s work has won three National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Awards; one for creating a neighborhood wildfire drill, the second for dramatically improving the reach of emergency warning systems, and the third for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions through an ambitious remote work policy.
Currently, Brigid serves as U.S. Board Chair of ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability; Vice Chair of NACo Environmental Energy Land Use Steering Committee; member of NACo Resilient Counties Advisory Board; member of NACo Large Urban Counties Caucus; Executive Committee member of the Greater Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council, Compact Co-Chair for the Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance; and member of FEMA’s Resilient Nation Partnership Network. She is also a former award-winning reporter at NPR stations.
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