Full Name
Jay Wilson
Job Title
Resilience Coordinator
Organization
Clackamas County Disaster Management
Speaker Bio
Jay Wilson is the Clackamas County Resilience Coordinator with the Department of Disaster Management and spearheads the County’s efforts to reduce risks and assess hazards including flood, earthquake, wildfire, volcano, and climate change impacts. Mr. Wilson is the past-Chair (2014-17) of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC) and previously worked for Oregon Emergency Management and as a Mitigation Reservist with FEMA Regions IX and X. Jay recently completed a two-year appointment as a Resilience Fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology during the development of the 2015 Community Resilience Planning Guide. He is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and has completed post-earthquake reconnaissance trips to Japan (2011) and Central-Italy (2017). Jay holds an M.A. in geography and a B.A. in film and lives in Portland, Oregon.
Jay Wilson