KATHERINE LARK STEWART
Director, Emergency Management Program
Health & Human Services Division
Edmonds Community College
Lynnwood, Washington
(425) 640-1877
Ms. Katherine Lark Stewart is the Director of the Emergency Management Program at Edmonds Community College which offers both a Certificate and AAS-T Degree for Emergency Management and Business Continuity. She started developing courses for the certificate program in January 2010 and succeeded with the AAS-T degree application to the Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges in June. The course offerings today constitute 14courses specific to Emergency Management and 1 specific to Business Continuity, developed for online delivery by a 6 part-time-faculty-member team. In conjunction with her academic responsibilities, she coordinates the Campus Emergency Response and Recovery Organization.
Ms. Stewart joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in January 2001, starting in the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program as the Emergency Management assistant in Region X, Bothell, Washington. Eventually joining the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA Disaster Field Training Operations headquarters at the Emergency Management Institute, she has responded to more than 18Presidential Disaster Declarations, deployed in various States in Planning, Administration, and Training functions. For a short-term assignment, Ms. Stewart was the Regional Training Manager for Region VII, Kansas City, Missouri. She was credentialed as a Master Trainer (2005) and Incident Command System Trainer (2004).
Prior to joining FEMA, Ms. Stewart taught, at various colleges, the Emergency Medical Technician and Medical Assisting, clinical and administrative curricula for credentialing with the National Emergency Medical Technician and the Certified or Registered Medical Assistant programs. She was a member of the Disaster Services Human Resource System of the American Red Cross and served as a Disaster Action Team captain for the Seattle-King County chapter. She responded to several disaster call-outs as far as American Samoa. She was an Instructor Specialist for both the contract and community programs of the chapter, Disaster Services Program and Instructor Trainer for the HIV/AIDS and Emergency Response.
The Emergency Management Higher Education Conference at the Emergency Management Institute is a “must” attend by any institution offering emergency management programs. The conference provides up-to-date and upcoming concerns, new technology, invaluable information for curricula, core competencies of the profession, and program deliverables.
May 26, 2011