Kate Long
Kate Long is a research specialist for the California Emergency Management Agency Earthquake and Tsunami Program where she provides knowledge translation to ensure advancements in science are available to policy makers, emergency managers, and the public. Long has expertise in intergovernmental relations and represents the state's interests in the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), a partnership of federal, state, and universities involved in California earthquake monitoring.
Long served on the Earthquake Country Alliance steering committee of the 2008 Great Southern California ShakeOut. Before joining the Earthquake and Tsunami Program, Kate worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a National Response Team principal operations planner, for the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office developing a volunteer-led earthquake preparedness program, and for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, where she managed the public assistance grant review in the wake of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Before coming to emergency management, Long was a motion picture producer (she reports that the two industries have more in common than one might imagine). She has a degree in government with an emphasis in economics from Mills College in Oakland, California.