Professional Development
Mission
Find and create professional development opportunities for EDEN delegates and encourage professional development in disaster education.
Committee’s Charge
- Produce 6-8 webinars yearly,
- Name one reviewer to the Annual Meeting review panel. The review panel will score presentation and poster proposals for the EDEN annual meeting, and
- Provide the Post-Session Workshop at Annual Meeting
Membership
Open to all delegates. The committee meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 11AM Eastern.
The Professional Development Committee Recommend Trainings for All Delegates
- FEMA ICS-100 (IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System)
- FEMA ICS-200 (IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response)
- FEMA ICS-700 (IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System)
- FEMA ICS-800 (IS-800.D: National Response Framework, An Introduction)
Committee Leadership Roles and responsibilities
Chair
- Plan and conduct monthly committee calls
- Send out communications to committee members and delegates as needed
- Coordinate committee produced webinars in partnership with the EDEN Support Team
- Representative of Professional Development Committee on the EDEN Executive committee
- Attend EDEN Executive committee monthly call (third Thursday, 3 pm Est.)
- Attend EDEN Executive Committee Mid-Winter Board Meeting (February or March in-person)
- Attend EDEN Executive Committee Meeting at Annual Meeting
- Submit monthly and yearly Reports
- Appoint subcommittees and committee working groups as needed
- Attend the Annual Meeting
- Coordinate other projects as needed
- The chair can serve up to 3 consecutive terms
Vice Chair
- The vice-chair shall assume the duties of the chair in the chair’s absence
- Send out communications to committee members and delegate as needed
- Representative of Professional Development committee on the EDEN Annual Meeting committee
- Attend Annual Meeting committee monthly calls (Fourth Friday, 12:00 pm Est.)
- Name one reviewer to the Annual Meeting review panel
- Determine and coordinate the Annual Meeting post-session workshop in partnership with Purdue staff
- Coordinate other projects as needed
- Attend the Annual Meeting
- Elected to a one-year term
- May be elected as chair-elect if the chair is beginning a third consecutive term or planning to step down at the end of their next term
- If elected as chair-elect, the committee will only hold a vice-chair election in July. The chair-elect will automatically assume the chair at the next Annual Meeting.
Chair

Rick Griffiths
Job Title: Family and Consumer Science Agent
Office Phone: (505) 334-9496
Email: rickgrif@nmsu.edu
Delegate Type:
Delegate
Institution:
New Mexico State University
Committee Members
Last Name | First Name | Institution |
---|---|---|
Hoffman | William | USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture |
Hyde | Glenda | Oregon State University |
Yandow | Cathy | University of Vermont Extension |
Kocher | Susan | University of California Cooperative Extension |
Whitford | Fred | Purdue University |
Gmeinder | Gwen | University of Minnesota |
Jensen | Michael | Washington State University |
Ira | Gregory | UC California Naturalist Program |
White | Virginia | |
McCann | Mark | |
Friend | Duane | University of Illinois |
Estwick | Noel | Prairie View A&M University |
Tannehill | Linda | |
Prather | Tim | |
Davis | Kimberly | Florida A&M University |
Black | Lynette | Oregon State University |
Bearnes | Kim | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Hilbun-Benoit | Anne-Howard | Mississippi State University |
Griffith | Rick | New Mexico State University |
Davis | Tim | UGA |
Skjolaas | Cheryl | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Nelson | Sherry | University of Missouri |
Yoder | Mike | North Carolina State University |
Burnham | Conne | University of Missouri |
Higdon | Andrea | University of Kentucky |
McKillip | Carrie | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Mueller | Ashley | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Lillpop | Abby | Purdue University |
El Afandi | Gamal | Tuskegee University |
Lovelace | Susan | South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium |