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Maribel Martinez-Mejia, Director of Emergency Preparedness 
Role: Overseeing the EP department including staff, budget, and EP/regional milestones and deliverables.  Maintaining agency relations with regional/state emergency management and public safety stakeholders and internal NCTCOG departments.
Email | Office 817-704-5613

Marcie Bruner, Emergency Preparedness Supervisor
Role:  Serving as the UASI grant coordinator and supervising EP staff.  Manages and conducts emergency preparedness planning forecasts, manages requests for proposals and consultant studies, assists internal departments and external agencies, and performs grant administration.
Working Groups POC: Fusion, EOD, SWAT 
Email | Office 817-608-2379

Justin Cox, Senior Emergency Preparedness Specialist (Grants Coordinator)
Role:  Serving as a lead grant specialist for the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and coordinating point on other grant funding opportunities.  Provides senior level emergency planning assistance in various regional projects. 
Working Groups POC: EPPC, REPAC, EM Working Group
Email  | Office 817-695-9147

Amanda Everly, Senior Emergency Preparedness Technical Specialist (Technology, Systems)
Role:  Serving as a lead technical specialist for multiple regional projects.  This includes managing, configuring, and assisting in the coordination of development or updates to Emergency Preparedness list servs, websites/Teams, dashboards, and other applications.  
Working Groups POC: Interop, Cyber, EGRT, UAS, PWERT, CASA
Email | Office 817-608-2318

Michael Hernandez, Emergency Preparedness Specialist (Training & Exercises)
Role: Serving as a lead training and exercise specialist to achieve emergency preparedness in the region by coordinating, creating, and facilitating training as well as exercise design.
Working Groups POC: Training and Exercise, USAR/COST, HazMat
Email | Office 817-704-5682

Taylor Conti, Emergency Preparedness Program Assistant II (Grants Asst., Public Education/VOAD)
Role: Serving as an assistant to both the UASI and SHSP grant programs. Provides assistance to all emergency preparedness program areas as needed, coordinates the KnoWhat2Do program with public education working group chairs, and is a liaison to regional VOAD groups.
Working Groups POC: Citizen Corp, Public Education
Email | Office 817-704-5674 

Vanessa Hooker, Senior Administrative Assistant
Role:  Providing administrative support to the EP Department to include Executive Board EP agenda item coordination, travel coordination, purchasing, timekeeping, record keeping, EP dues coordination, and internal/external stakeholder communication.
Email | Main EP Number 817-695-9235 | Office 817-695-9214