Curry Mayer, Seattle, USA, is currently the Director of Emergency Management for Seattle, Washington. She is an emergency management and homeland security expert with over 30 years of experience in California and Washington, DC. She has developed programs for all levels of government. Mayer is a board member for the WA 211 network and co-chairs the Advisory Board for the Center for Excellence.
Dr. Robert McCreight (1948-2024) advised federal and state government on spectrum risk issues such as WMD threats, EMD scenarios, crisis management, and strategic analysis over a 47-year career. The author of four books and numerous journal articles on homeland security, national defense, and emergency management, he also served as an adjunct professor at Penn State, George Mason, George Washington, and Virginia Tech, where he taught graduate courses in crisis and emergency management, homeland security, defense policy, and assessing WMD threats. He is the author of An Introduction To Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation (2016).