Nick Kahn
Emergency Management Planner and Project Manager
- Role
- Community Recovery Specialist - Planner at Fema
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Community Recovery Specialist - Planner
Feb 2013 — Present · New York, NY, US
Administer FEMA Region 2’s Sandy Regional Infrastructure Resilience Coordination (SRIRC) group, which facilitates funding and permitting process for over 400 regional multi-agency funded post-Sandy resilient infrastructure projects worth $42 billion and manages a similar database for Hurricane Ida recovery projects and projects that received funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law• Serve as Interagency Coordination Liaison for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Direct Technical Assistance engagement with the Village of Owego, New York; connect village impacted by Hurricanes Irene and Lee with state and federal resources to improve their resilience posture to withstand future extreme weather events• Review multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plans for New York counties and municipalities, enabling them to chart a path to improving their resilience posture and receive financial assistance for mitigation projects• Administer the New Jersey Resilience Accelerator, an initiative involving FEMA Region 2 and four New Jersey state agencies to deliver planning and technical assistance to five coastal and six riverine communities adversely impacted by Hurricane Ida; participating communities go through a resilience plan development bootcamp and receive guidance and grant opportunities to help implement their plan; this effort won the 2023 FEMA Administrator’s Award for Resilience• Chair FEMA Region 2’s Professional Development Committee, providing job-related resources, webinars, and trainings to over 1,200 employees• Authored and spearheaded municipal facilities relocation and economic development plans for Tuckerton, New Jersey, resulting in a new, state-of-the-art Town Hall; plans were endorsed by state and federal Congressmen, Assemblymen, and Senators
Education
University of Michigan
MUP, Urban Planning
2009 — 2011
Macalester College
BA Cum Laude, Geography
2005 — 2009
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