Marshall Mabry
Marshall Mabry is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s Graduate School of Sociology where he focused on political sociology, particularly the distribution of values and power in society. He received a second master’s degree from their Center for Public Administration and Policy.
Mabry came to the federal government under the Outstanding Scholars Program in 1991. While with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), he has been involved in more than 40 presidentially-declared disaster recovery operations; mostly in the eastern United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. During these events, he most often serves as the federal mitigation officer. Following Hurricane Katrina, he worked in the Long Term Community Recovery Section in the New Orleans and Delta area. For the past seven years, he has been involved with FEMA’s Hurricane Program and the Hurricane Liaison Team, which takes him to the National Hurricane Center when hurricanes threaten the United States or its territories on the Atlantic side.
Mabry is a member of the American Society for Quality and the Association of State Floodplain Managers.