Cayla Cothron

Bio

Cayla Cothron is North Carolina Sea Grant’s coastal planning specialist, located in Raleigh on NC State’s Centennial Campus. In her role, she works collaboratively to support planning, policy, and decision-making that improves resilience and sustainability of coastal communities and ecosystems to climate impacts and other changing conditions.

Cothron has a background in long range community and environmental planning, policy, and implementation in both the private and public sectors, and experience working with communities, government agencies, decision-makers, and other stakeholders to address local needs across a wide variety of land use and environmental topics. Cayla received her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Florida State University and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado Denver.

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF INTERESTS:

Policy and planning, coastal resilience, sustainability, climate change, equity, applied research, extension