Suzanne Frew

Suzanne Frew leads The Frew Group, a federally certified, small woman-owned consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay Area that supports government, academia, and business in creating inclusive, culturally competent emergency management plans, communications, and trainings and exercises. A recognized leader on inclusion in the practitioner community, Frew brings 30 years of public and private sector experience operationally applying a lens of equity to meet legal mandates and ensure outreach and services are provided to the whole community, particularly disproportionately impacted populations. She addresses impacts of climate change on diverse, highly vulnerable populations, issues of cross-cultural communications, marginalized racism, and support for people with disabilities, access, and functional needs in her work as a consultant, speaker, trainer, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center instructor, and as a coauthor or contributing author to four risk communications/emergency management books and numerous professional articles. Her work takes her throughout the United States, Canada, Caribbean, Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia. She serves as the liaison between the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Emerging Technology Committee and the IAEM Diversity Committee. Suzanne began her career serving the Federal Emergency Management Agency in public information, hazard mitigation, and public-private partnerships.