With over 20 years in public service, Tiffany Brown brings a unique breadth of experiences to her role as a professional emergency manager. Her formative experiences were developed while working as an emergency dispatcher, legal assistant, community educator, journalist, clerk to the Board of Commissioners, and stay-at-home mom.
In her (past) role as a coastal emergency manager, Brown spent more than a decade forging critical relationships and pioneering initiatives to increase community resilience through the lens of earthquake/tsunami risk. By embracing opportune partnerships with universities, state/federal agencies, legislative representatives, private sector entities, and military departments, Brown leveraged projects at the local level to advance regional preparedness and mitigation efforts. She currently works for Lane County Emergency Management in Eugene, Oregon, where she now spends more time thinking about ice storms, wildfires, and dam failure than ever before.
Brown serves as the local government stakeholder and current chair for the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Committee. She is also a community advisory council member for the Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon and her master's in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Security and Defense in Monterey.