Speakers

Jamie Quarrelles CEM®, is a Senior Program Manager with the Preparedness Bureau within the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA). She is responsible for emergency management, homeland security planning and compliance activities within the District, her current role is managing the District’s Continuity program. She serves as a subject matter expert participating in numerous panels, advisory groups, task forces, and steering committees addressing emergency management issues. She delivered numerous presentations to communities and organizations locally, nationally, and internationally on emergency management and preparedness strategies.

Ms. Quarrelles has extensive employment experience with Federal, State and Local Government, and private sector organizations. She also has numerous years of operational experience with the District of Columbia Government in the Executive Office of The Mayor, Department of Public Works, and the Department of Transportation. Her private sector experience includes the Executive Offices of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the National League of Cities. 

In 2017 she became a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM®) by the International Association of Emergency Managers. She is an Alumna of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), through the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Center for Public Leadership.  She completed academic studies in Diversity and Inclusion at Cornell University.

Other Professional affiliations include Assessor, and Assessment Manager for the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP), and membership in the International Association of Emergency Managers.