KATHERINE “LARK” STEWART
Director, Emergency Management Program
Health & Human Services Division
Edmonds Community College
Lynnwood, Washington
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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 course offerings today constitute 12 core and elective courses specific to Emergency Management and 1 specific to Business Continuity for online delivery format. Instructors for the program and advisory committee members are active subject matter experts in the professional multi-disciplined field of study. Initially, Ms. Stewart was very much involved with campus emergency preparedness, response, and recovery operations.
Ms. Stewart is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contract instructor. She joined the Agency in January 2001, starting in the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program 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 18 Presidential 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 in 2005 and an Incident Command System Trainer in 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.
Ms. Stewart holds current credentials with the National Safety Council Emergency Care and as director for Amber Cross Training Center. She provides outreach for credentialing instructors in order to support Community Emergency Response and Recovery programs, voluntary organizations, private and public sectors, and workplace health and safety programs.
May 30, 2012