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WELCOME TO DAY 2! From Flames to Futures: Navigating Wildfire Leadership with Hope and Resilience with Jennifer Gray Thompson
WELCOME TO DAY 2! From Flames to Futures: Navigating Wildfire Leadership with Hope and Resilience with Jennifer Gray Thompson “It’s never about benefiting our organization, it’s about benefiting the cause.” —Jennifer Gray Thompson 2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Day 2 of the 2024 Wildfire Leadership Summit is underway and the insights are about…
Read MoreDay 1: KEYNOTE: Embracing Personal Responsibility and Future Thinking with Watch Duty with John Mills
Day 1: KEYNOTE: Embracing Personal Responsibility and Future Thinking with Watch Duty with John Mills “A shared vision of reality where we can all see what’s happening allows us all to respond to the same thing accordingly.” —John Mills 2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Preparing for the future of disasters requires innovative solutions…
Read MoreDay 1: TALK STORY: From Crisis to Community: Service and Integration Post-Maui Fires
Day 1: TALK STORY: From Crisis to Community: Service and Integration Post-Maui Fires “There’s a lot that can be done if you open up the doors and just change the way that you do things.” —Jim Alvey “We don’t do anything globally without partnerships. As a disaster relief organization, we’re trying to get…
Read MoreDay 1: KEYNOTE: Enhancing Survivor Assistance – Adapting to Unprecedented Climate Disasters with Chris Smith
Day 1: KEYNOTE: Enhancing Survivor Assistance – Adapting to Unprecedented Climate Disasters with Chris Smith “Our mission should be developing communities to better withstand the challenges of our climate, building better and smarter in the first place, not just building back better. Together, we can create a safer, more prepared locality, a more prepared…
Read MoreDay 1: TALK STORY with The Little Dozer with Ken Donnell and Nance Presser
Day 1: TALK STORY with The Little Dozer with Ken Donnell and Nance Presser “The critical resources we used for this were imagination and creativity— things that are always with us, even immediately after a disaster. And by doing this, we have helped ourselves heal ourselves, we’ve helped our community heal.” —Ken Donnell …
Read MoreDay 1: PANEL: Enduring the Crisis: Ensuring Personal Sustainability for Leaders in Disaster Management
Day 1: PANEL: Enduring the Crisis: Ensuring Personal Sustainability for Leaders in Disaster Management “Allow yourself the best you can to just release into all things in due time.” —Jacqui Jorgeson “It’s important as leaders that we show those who we are leading that we also need breaks. We are not gods.” —Matt…
Read MoreDay 1: KEYNOTE: The Power of Recovery Knowledge for Fire Impacted Communities with Jolie Wills
Day 1: KEYNOTE: The Power of Recovery Knowledge for Fire Impacted Communities with Jolie Wills “After disaster, there is plenty of information that you have to absorb, there’s plenty of decisions you’ve got to make, there’s plenty of problems you’ve got to solve, and prolonged stress impacts our ability to do all of those…
Read MoreDay 1: KEYNOTE: Disrupting FEMA— Innovating Service Delivery in the Era of Climate Disasters with Brock Long
Day 1: KEYNOTE: Disrupting FEMA— Innovating Service Delivery in the Era of Climate Disasters with Brock Long “We need to stop looking at people in this country being victims all the time, but actually being the true first responder in every community, in every situation.” —Brock Long 2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Disasters…
Read MoreDay 1: TALK STORY: The Maui Fires and Leadership with ʻĀina at the Center
Day 1: TALK STORY: The Maui Fires and Leadership with ʻĀina at the Center “We were rendering aid— food, medical, and those immediate needs until such that the government arrived. So we were in operation for 30 days.” —Kalikolehua Storer “Hard decisions had to be made that day. My daughter would grab the…
Read MoreDay 1: The Sail Plan: A Vision for Reimagining Lahaina For All with Archie Kalepa
Day 1: The Sail Plan: A Vision for Reimagining Lahaina For All with Archie Kalepa “We have one chance, and we have one chance to get this right. If we rebuild Lahaina only for Lahaina, we will fail. We have to rebuild Lahaina for all of Hawaii, for all of mankind, so that Lahaina…
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