Rhonda Gregg Hirsch has had a three-decade career on the Texas Coast. As a highly respected coastal consultant, she served as project director for critical projects spanning coastal engineering, marine structures, navigation and long-term resiliency. She is a leading champion for sustainable shorelines, specialized coastal restoration and the beneficial use of dredged material—expertise that perfectly primes her for her new role with the Galveston District. As the operations manager for Beneficial Use in Navigation since February 2024, she has an exciting hands-on opportunity to have a significant role in shaping the future of Texas’s fragile and eroding shoreline. She is eager to channel her decades of expertise into expanding vital, years-long collaborations with local, county, and state governments, resource agencies and coastal stakeholders to build a more resilient coast.