- Butch Kinerney
Butch Kinerney is key national spokesperson for the [http://www.floodsmart.gov National Flood Insurance Program] and served as acting
press secretary for theFederal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Kinerney rose to the position immediately following landfall ofHurricane Katrina in 2005. During Katrina and the ongoing recovery in the Gulf Coast, he's been quoted more than 30,000 times since Katrina's first landfall inFlorida and throughout the tumultuous fallout from FEMA's response efforts inLouisiana andMississippi . He served as acting press secretary during the resignation ofDepartment of Homeland Security Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and ResponseMichael D. Brown and through the appointment ofR. David Paulison as the new FEMA chief. He is also a speaker and is currently working on his first book.Prior to his appointment as acting press secretary, Kinerney was the public affairs liaison to
FEMA 's Mitigation Division, theNational Flood Insurance Program and theU.S. Fire Administration . He joined FEMA in 2004, just before fourhurricanes struckFlorida .Before joining FEMA, Butch spent five years as a public affairs specialist at the
U.S. Geological Survey inReston, Virginia , where he worked directly with the USGS Water Resources Division and the USGS hazards program which includedearthquakes ,wildfires ,volcanoes andlandslides .Kinerney worked as the Chief of Public Information for the [http://mema.state.md.us Maryland Emergency Management Agency] and as a Community Relations Officer for the [http://dnrec.state.de.us Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control] . He was a newspaper and magazine reporter/writer/editor before beginning his government career.
A 1990 graduate of the
University of Maryland, College Park , Kinerney has a degree in news-editorial journalism.Born in
Washington, D.C. in 1968, Kinerney has lived inMaryland ,Delaware ,Missouri andVirginia .His family includes wife, three children, a sister and parents. He is an active member of [http://www.penderumc.org Pender United Methodist Church] , in Fairfax, VA, serving in several key leadership positions and is a [http://www.arcolavfd.org volunteer firefighter] in Loudoun County, VA.
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