Jane’s passion for emergency management, mitigation and resilience began with her first-hand experience with the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo in her hometown of the US Virgin Islands. She has been able to use this passion to guide her career through three years as Associate for Mitigation at the American Red Cross National Headquarters, followed by a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Planning Fellowship in 2003/2004 and has continued since in client-focused consulting for local, state, and the federal government where she has managed more than $40M in project work.

Jane served as the Program Manager for two five-year FEMA hazard mitigation technical assistance contracts. Work required expert knowledge of the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration’s programs including but not limited to the Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs, Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation (EHP), and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). She also served as the lead contractor support for development of the FY2010 Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant guidance, reconciling input from FEMA Headquarters and regional staff, and managed the current update effort expected to be completed in 2022. Having led more than 20 FEMA approved hazard mitigation plans, Jane has assisted more than 275 communities with advancing resilience and risk reduction.  She recently completed a multi-year term as a member of the US Green Building Council (USGBC)’s RELi Steering Committee, which oversaw the RELi 2.0 Rating System, a resilience-focused design paradigm that helps projects of all scales prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events.