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Featured Alumni

Jeffrey Daniel Stern
White House Fellow
MPA/SPA'99

Jeff Stern is a member of the Arlington County Fire Department and serves as Deputy Coordinator of Emergency Services in the Arlington County Office of Emergency Management. He has 18 years of experience as a firefighter, paramedic, instructor, special operations team leader, and officer, serving with departments in Maryland, Colorado, and Virginia through the career rank of battalion fire chief.

He has written and lectured about firefighter safety, training, incident management, terrorism, and disaster response, and has served as a consultant to local, state, federal, and international government agencies on emergency services issues.

Stern has a BA in government from the College of William and Mary in Virginia; an MPA from the American Univesity School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., where he was appointed to PI Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for public affairs adminstration. Stern is curently pursuing a Ph.D. in public administration at ...[read more...]

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