{UAH} GWOKTO BUT WHO EXACTLY RUNS FEMA? ->Just curious !!!!!

Gwokto

 

On seeing  how our people have suffered that much in the Carolinas, I decided to take a moment and look closely at who is who in FEMA, and I found two interesting factors, the people that mainly ran the organization are Jews and appointed by Democrats. This entire cream is all Jews. Are they the only people that can ran the department? For a very long time Democrats have claimed how they worry so much about blacks, and how they defend employment equity, why don’t we have a single black in there? How about Whites? And do you know what gets to me? These friends do not attend the Democrats Convention, it is always the Allan Barigye’s that attend, it is the Barigye’s that scream how they  are never going back.  Now try to stand up and pump that problem into Barigye and see the dust that walks out of his brain.

 

Man we have an uphill to walk for the problem feeds on us. We are the very fertile land.

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Jeremy L. Greenberg

Office of Response and Recovery

Director, Operations Division

Mr. Jeremy Greenberg currently serves as the Director for the Operations Division in FEMA’s Response Directorate.  In this capacity he responsible for the overseeing FEMA’s numerous capabilities that identify, alert, and stabilize threats and hazards.  This includes the National Watch Center, FEMA Operations Center, National Response Coordination Center, Operations Capabilities, Operation Integration and the National Urban Search and Rescue program.

Additionally, Mr. Greenberg functions as the Chief of the National Response Coordination Staff in the National Response Coordination Center and is the Deputy Team Leader for the Domestic Emergency Support Team (DEST), which provides assistance to the F.B.I. for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.

Previously Mr. Greenberg served as the Acting Deputy Director, Office of External Affairs, and Director, Office of Policy and Performance within FEMA’s Response Directorate.  He was responsible providing clear direction, guidance, and analysis to aid in the effective coordination for the FEMA’s response activities.

Before joining FEMA, Mr. Greenberg served as the Manager for the Department of Transportation’s National Response Program. In this capacity he was responsible for coordinating DOT’s Emergency Support Functions and the Regional Emergency Transportation Program.  Prior leading the National Response Program Mr. Greenberg was the Deputy Manager for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Crisis Management Center. 

Additionally, Mr. Greenberg served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was the Operations Branch Chief in the National Exercise Division.  He was responsible for overseeing the design, development, and conduct of exercises at the Federal, State and local levels including several National Level and International Exercises. Before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Greenberg served as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Program Assistant for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mr. Greenberg holds a BA from American University, an MA from the College of International Security Affairs at The National Defense University and is a graduate of both the National Emergency Management Executive Academy and Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.  Mr. Greenberg spent over 20 years as a volunteer firefighter, emergency medical technician, and instructor.  

 

Last updated October 7, 2024

Michael A. Coen, Jr.

Office of the Administrator

Chief of Staff

Michael A. Coen, Jr. has supported emergency management operations for over 29 years. He currently serves as Chief of Staff to Administrator Deanne Criswell. As a Biden-Harris Administration appointee he is leading the effort to build a diverse and inclusive FEMA workforce that brings different insights, experiences, and perspectives to the decision-making table. He also supports the Administrator’s priorities to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management; lead a people first approach to enable a resilient nation; and promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation.

Prior to returning to FEMA in January 2021, he served with the Biden-Harris Transition as a member of the Agency Review Team for FEMA. During the Obama-Biden Administration, he served as FEMA’s Chief of Staff for Administrator W. Craig Fugate, assisting in the management of disaster response and recovery operations. He served as the primary liaison to the President’s National Security Council Staff for all matters relating to emergency management in the United States and helped lead response efforts to over 500 presidentially declared Stafford Act events, including the 2011 tornado disasters in Alabama and Missouri, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Hurricane Matthew and the Louisiana floods of 2016.

Coen also served as Counselor to the FEMA Administrator where he provided guidance on strategic plans and policies and emergency management public policy issues. Coen has served in other emergency management and government roles throughout his career, including as Deputy State Coordinating Officer for the State of Louisiana providing technical support and assistance to communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

 

Last updated September 26, 2024

Jaclyn Rothenberg

Office of External Affairs

Director, Public Affairs and Planning

Jaclyn is an appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration and was sworn in as the Director of Public Affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in July 2021. Jaclyn is a public affairs, media relations, crisis communications strategist and seasoned on-the-record spokesperson. She has advised C-suite executives, high-profile elected officials, and political leaders operating on national and local stages. With nearly 15 years of experience, she understands the varying perspectives media, state, local and congressional leaders have on key issues and approaches her work with anticipation of how each stakeholder will react. 

Jaclyn leads a team of nearly 20 people and guides the agency’s media and messaging strategies on key priorities of the administration such as disaster response and recovery, climate change, workforce readiness and equity. She is committed to building strong teams and encourages creative strategic thinking along with a forward leaning approach for how communications plans are executed. 

Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Jaclyn led the Georgia Communications Team for the Biden-Harris Campaign. Jaclyn also previously served nearly five years in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Administration as a spokesperson and senior communications advisor. During her tenure, she led the First Lady of New York City’s communications team, and counseled Mayor de Blasio on and other administration officials on budget, mass transit, emergency response, housing, homelessness, mental health, and education issues. Prior to her time in New York City government, Jaclyn served on Hillary Clinton’s campaign as a press secretary in Western Pennsylvania and supported the advance team on various primary and general election events. 

Jaclyn has also counseled C-suite executives and fortune 50 leaders, and understands client-service delivery, having served as a Vice President at SKDKnickerbocker in New York City. She has also worked at Teneo and formerly known as Burson-Marsteller in a communications capacity. Jaclyn is a graduate of the George Washington University. 

 

Last updated January 5, 2024

Lauren M. Kaufer

Office of the Administrator

Director, Office of Professional Responsibility

Lauren M. Kaufer was appointed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Director, Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), on July 21, 2019. Director Kaufer was charged with establishing OPR to ensure the expeditious, fair, and objective review of all allegations of misconduct and/or harassment involving FEMA personnel. In this capacity, she is responsible for ensuring allegations of reportable misconduct are documented, reviewed, and properly routed for investigation as well as ensuring FEMA’s disciplinary process includes appropriate accountability when allegations of misconduct have been substantiated.

Prior to this appointment, Director Kaufer served as Executive Director, Headquarters Support, for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of the Chief Security Officer. In this role, she was responsible for all security support services for DHS Headquarters to include Personnel Security, Force Protection, Visitor Management, Access Control, Special Security Officer Operations, and Physical Security.

Director Kaufer has served within DHS since joining the U.S. Customs Service, the predecessor to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in 2000. A graduate of the CBP Leadership Institute, she served as Deputy Director of CBP’s Personnel Security Division, Director of the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Acting Director of the Credibility Assessment Division (CBP’s polygraph program), and Director of CBP’s Employee Relations Division. Her final tour of duty at CBP was as the Deputy Executive Director, Headquarters Operations, in the CBP OPR Investigative Operations Division. In this capacity, she was responsible for a variety of investigative programs including Operations Policy, Cyber Investigations, the Joint Intake Center, the Administrative Inquiry Program, the Investigative Review Team, and Specialized Investigative Programs.

Director Kaufer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Montclair State University and a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law.

 

Last updated September 26, 2024

Erin C. Hoffman

Resilience

Deputy Assistant Administrator

Erin C. Hoffman currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the National Preparedness Directorate, focusing on providing doctrine, training, education, exercise, and community preparedness support to enhance the capabilities of emergency managers at all levels.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Hoffman served as the Director of the Office of National Exercises and Technological Hazards where she was responsible for administering the National Exercise Program (NEP), including the National Level Exercises and Senior Official Exercises, providing officials and stakeholders across the whole community the opportunity to assess capabilities. She was also responsible for administering the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program (REPP) and the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Programs (CSEPP), building resilience across more than 500 communities & 38 states and territories that surround commercial nuclear power plants and two US Army installations that store chemical weapons. 

Throughout her career with FEMA, Erin has served in multiple senior leadership positions across the Office of the Administrator, National Preparedness Directorate, the Office of Policy and Program Analysis, and the Response Directorate. Before joining FEMA in 2012, she served as a trusted advisor to senior officials in the Department of Homeland Security in the Office of the Secretary and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. While serving in these positions, Erin provide policy advice on a wide range of issues pertaining to emergency management, biological terrorism, chemical preparedness, emerging threats, risk management, and transportation security.

Erin received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Virginia Tech, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. 

 

Last updated October 7, 2024

Jeffrey D. Stern, Ph.D.

Resilience

Superintendent, Emergency Management Institute

Dr. Jeff Stern is the Superintendent of the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He previously led the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, where he was responsible for disaster and homeland security preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts across the Commonwealth. Appointed in 2014 by Governor Terry McAuliffe, Dr. Stern led Virginia through nearly 50 emergency declarations over 6 years and deployed Virginia’s first responders to disasters across the United States, including Hawaii, Alaska, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He also chaired the Virginia 911 Board and oversaw all the Commonwealth’s homeland security and emergency management grant programs.

Dr. Stern served for more than three decades as an emergency manager, first responder, agency executive, adviser, and consultant. Over the course of his career, he served in local, state, and federal government positions, in the private sector, and in academe, including presidential appointments as a White House Fellow at the Department of the Interior and the White House Homeland Security Council, and as Executive Director of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the advisory board to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Dr. Stern began his career as a firefighter and paramedic, serving through the rank of battalion chief with departments in Maryland, Virginia, and Colorado, and deployed with incident management teams to Hurricanes Charley (2004) and Katrina (2005), and the Haiti earthquake (2010).

Dr. Stern served on several advisory and policy boards, including FEMA National Advisory Council, where he chaired the Response and Recovery Committee and the FEMA 2040 Committee, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s FirstNet Public Safety Advisory Committee, the National Capital Region Homeland Security Executive Committee, the National Homeland Security Consortium, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology First Responders Resource Group, and the College of William & Mary Public Policy Program Advisory Board.  Dr. Stern is a member of both the International Association of Emergency Managers and the National Emergency Management Association, where he served as legislative committee chairman on the Board of Directors during the passage of the landmark Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018.

Dr. Stern graduated from the College of William and Mary (B.A. Government), the American University School of Public Affairs (MPA), and the Virginia Tech Center for Public   Administration and Policy (Ph.D.), and he has attended the Naval Postgraduate School Executive Leaders Program. He is a Certified Emergency Manager and a National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer.

Josh Bornstein

Mission Support

Chief Security Officer

Josh Bornstein serves as FEMA’s Chief Security Officer in the Office of the Chief Security Officer. In this role, Josh is FEMA’s lead executive responsible for directing the development and execution of FEMA-wide security programs impacting all FEMA personnel and facilities nationwide. Josh leads OCSO to protect FEMA by designing and leading physical security, personnel security, administrative security, special security, counterintelligence operations, insider threat, fraud prevention and investigations, and security training and awareness.

Josh has worked across federal, state, and local governments and in the private and non-profit sectors leading agency operations in the homeland security, food and agriculture, and health and public health sectors. Prior to his arrival at FEMA, Josh was the Director of the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management and Chief Security Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. In this role, he was the senior executive responsible for policy and operations surrounding domestic and international security, safety, and health, as well as internal crisis management for CDC employees, contractors, and visitors. He also directed all facilities planning, engineering, maintenance, design and construction services, real property management, intelligence and counterintelligence activities, work/life wellness initiatives, sustainability, logistics, and transportation and fleet services. 

Josh began his career with the federal government at CDC as a Presidential Management Fellow after completing a Bachelor’s in Political Science at Emory University and a Master’s in Public Administration with a focus on crisis management at Georgia State University. He is also a Certified Emergency Manager® and Certified Business Continuity Professional. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in February 2018 as the Deputy Director for the Office of Homeland Security in the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he led all aspects of homeland and national security for USDA. Josh was awarded the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service in 2023.

 

Last updated April 26, 2024

Christopher Kraft

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

Assistant Administrator, Financial Systems

Mr. Chris Kraft currently serves as the Assistant Administrator for Financial Systems in FEMA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). In this role, Mr. Kraft serves as the principal advisor to the CFO regarding the consolidation and integration of integrated mission-essential financial, acquisition, and asset management systems. The financial systems modernization initiative is a key strategy to achieve compliant financial management (FM) services and optimize FM operations across the diverse DHS systems. The OCFO ensures the funds necessary to carry out the Department’s mission are obtained, allocated, and spent in support of the Department’s priorities and in accordance with law and policies.

Mr. Kraft previously served as the Deputy Director of the DHS-wide FSM program, where he led the effort to move DHS components to modern integrated financial, procurement, and asset management systems. His leadership was instrumental in moving the Transportation Security Administration to a modern system in October 2020 and preparing the United States Coast Guard to successfully migrate in November 2021.

Mr. Kraft formerly served as the Program Manager of the FEMA FSM program. Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. Kraft oversaw several modernization projects for the Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center. Mr. Kraft began his federal career in 2011 as the Assistant Director, Financial Systems, at the Department of Justice, Executive Office for US Attorneys. Mr. Kraft also has experience with several Big Four accounting firms and large commercial companies, including SiriusXM where he served as the Vice President of Corporate Solutions.

In addition to earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Decision Sciences/Management Information Systems from George Mason University, Mr. Kraft holds a Juris Doctor from The George Washington University School of Law.

 

Last updated November 22, 2023

 

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On the 49th Parallel         

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                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi

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