About Us

The Center for Community Resilience Research Innovation and Advocacy (CCRRIA) is an Organized Research Unit under the Program of Public Affairs and Security Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at UTRGV in collaboration with UTRGV’s Department of Sociology and the Texas Epidemic and Public Health Institute. We are a Transboundary convergence platform (TCP) connecting and sharing the university’s resilience related knowledge with our most vulnerable populations in the RGV, and simultaneously learning from their wisdom. The concept of the CCRRIA emerged from the creation of the RISE Network at the 2019 RISE Conference, held at the University of Albany, (SUNY). Since then, it has been searching for a better understanding of the role that universities play in the pre and post disaster environments.