Here is a link to Sophia’s presentation. The Passcode is qvZ9Pdh=
Here is a link to the King County and Seattle Disaster Preparedness Website.
Sophia Lopez has been surviving disasters her whole life.
Now, she gets to educate others how to do just that. Having personally experienced and survived tornadoes in Texas, hurricanes in Georgia and Louisiana, snowstorms in Eastern WA, and earthquakes in Hawaii, Sophia was a preparedness expert long before discovering she could major in it, let alone dedicate her life to it. She received her Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security Studies from Tulane University. She is a Certified Emergency Manager with over nine years of experience in Emergency Management and over 25 years of experience in Customer Service. She has served on multiple deployments and activations, including supporting the USDA with the Avian Influenza outbreak in 2015 (H5N1) and serving as the Logistics Section Chief for the King County COVID-19 response in 2020.
She is currently the Community Engagement Manager at the City of Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management.
Here are Sophia’s slides: