Ms. Molly Mowery

Molly Mowery, AICP is Executive Director of Community Wildfire Planning Center and founder of Wildfire Planning International. For the past 18 years, Molly has pioneered integrating wildfire hazard with land use planning practices by developing national technical assistance programs, trainings, and guidance. Her accomplishments include creating new wildfire planning courses for FEMA and CAL FIRE, serving as lead author of the American Planning Association report Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface, drafting content for the National Research Council of Canada and more. Molly frequently presents on wildfire planning topics and provided the Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and Law hosted by the Vermont Law School. She is a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners and chairs the APA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division. Molly earned a bachelor of arts from Naropa University (Boulder, CO) and a master in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA).