Dan Stoneking

Dan Stoneking is the founder and vice president of the Emergency Management External Affairs Association, an adjunct professor at West Chester University, author of "Cultivate Your Garden: Crisis Communications from 30,000 Feet to Three Feet," owner and principal of Stoneking Strategic Communications and a volunteer at at the West Chester Food Cupboard. A strategic communicator and writer, his expertise is born from experience, including: his role at the Pentagon upon the attacks of 9/11; as lead spokesperson for the National Guard in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina where he represented 54 states and territories; responding to the earthquake in Haiti where he helped establish the first-ever international joint information center; creating a coalition with the private sector to implement the first-ever National Business Emergency Operation Center; voluntarily deploying to Puerto Rico within hours of Hurricane Maria’s impact as the lead spokesperson, and much more.

Previously, Dan served as the external affairs director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 3, where he led an award-earning passionate team to improve information sharing and coordination between FEMA and the American public, to include media, private sector, as well as local, state and government officials during disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts. As director, he led his team through countless disasters, the Papal Visit (2015), the Democratic National Convention (2016) and the response to the Jan 6, 2021, attacks on our Nation’s Capital. That position followed and built upon a career in both the corporate and government arenas focused on strategic and crisis communications, to include roles at FEMA Headquarters as director, private sector and deputy and acting director of public affairs.