APA FL Spotlights McKenna Korzeniewski on Building Community Through Planning
Florida Planning, a publication of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA Florida), featured Freese and Nichols’ Resilience and Mitigation Planner McKenna Korzeniewski in its Disaster Preparation and Resilience spring/summer 2025 edition. 
In her article, “It Takes a Planner,” McKenna shares insights from her time with the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, where she worked across eight counties to bridge emergency management and urban planning. Now based in our Austin office, she continues that mission of helping communities identify risks, build capacity and develop forward-thinking resilience strategies.
She writes: “My role as a resilience planner involves mitigating the natural world’s impact on the built environment, and, conversely, lessening the built environment’s impact on natural systems.”
At Freese and Nichols, our Resilience and Mitigation Planners build resilience from within, starting with planning and extending across disciplines.
“Resilience should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind to make sure the life of the work we’re doing isn’t being destroyed,” said McKenna.
Read “It Takes a Planner” on Page 12 of Florida Planning’s spring/summer 2025 issue.