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Denver’s Lisa Reyes Mason leads a new generation of social workers in helping communities adapt to the climate crisis.

Whether it’s visitors just in town for a few days of vacation, or someone moving to Colorado for the first time – our state gets no shortage of love. But are we loving it to death?

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the state’s public health, law, and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service.

When Lisa Reyes Mason drives through a neighborhood, things just look different. The green spaces and pretty ponds are like sponges for heavy rainfall. The supermarket parking lot? A safe place to hold floodwater. The neighborhood basketball court? An emergency repository that prevents streets and basements from flooding. But for Reyes Mason, an associate professor in the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work, the most interesting thing is what the eye can’t see. Drains and pipes below ground could be critical to the fight against the extreme rainfall in a changing climate...