Membership
Our Membership Benefits
- Membership access to opportunities to engage National, Regional and Local Forums with an emphasis on grass roots partnerships and initiatives
- Membership opportunities to actively participate in your specific areas of interest with other like-minded NHMA members and partners
- Access to peer-to-peer engagement and mentoring opportunities with nationally recognized leaders in community resilience, natural hazard mitigation, and risk reduction
- Opportunities to contribute to National Policy conversations
We Want to Hear from Hazard Mitigation Professionals
What would you like to see from NHMA? Your voice matters.
NHMA invites you to share your insights and help us shape the future of hazard mitigation for students, entry-level professionals, and seasoned experts alike.
Article Submission
Share your expertise with the broader hazard mitigation community by submitting an article for our blog or newsletter. Submissions are open to all practitioners and members of the public, and selected pieces will be published with full author credit and any professional links you choose to include (such as social media, websites, or links to programs). Whether you work in emergency management, planning, engineering, policy, academia, or community-based resilience, this is a space to highlight lessons learned, innovative practices, and real-world stories that can help others reduce risk and build safer, more equitable communities.
Our Committees
NHMA Committees contribute individually and collectively toward the achievement of achieving the Goals and Objectives in the current 5 Year Strategic Plan. Each Committee develops specific actions so NHMA can achieve more equitable outcomes and better serve the needs of disadvantaged and under-resourced communities and populations. Every committee plays a key role in fostering a culture of mentoring among NHMA members to guide mitigation practitioners in their careers. Below is a list of NHMA’s standing committees. To learn more and get involved in one of these committees, email us at contact@nhma.info.
Public Policy and Advocacy
This Committee stays current with and influences national policy that impacts mitigation practices and their effectiveness. This includes the full pre- and post-disaster event lifecycle to enable communities to achieve measurable disaster risk reduction including strategies for linking mitigation with post-disaster recovery at the community level. Activities include developing white papers on key national policy and program challenges, products and desk references.
Chairman: Ed Hecker
Co-Chairman: Derrick Hiebert
Education and Training
This Committee guides the continuing development and improvement of the NHMA Disaster Risk Reduction Curriculum and the development of multiple methods of delivery to hazard mitigation practitioners at the National, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial levels, in partnership with FEMA and other Federal Agencies. This includes developing partnerships with other organizations with similar missions, engaging Academic institutions and students, and support to Community training needs. The Committee is focused on the need to expand and further develop the Nation’s hazard mitigation practitioner workforce, especially at the local/community level.
Chairman: Nickea Bradley
Co-Chairman: Thomas Hughes
Emerging Leaders
This Committee focuses on engaging with emerging leaders working in hazard mitigation and climate change adaptation-related interests to participate in promoting NHMA’s mission to encourage risk reduction and climate adaptation on a national scale. The Emerging Leaders Committee aims to create a collaborative environment, ensuring members' perspectives are incorporated into the committee's and organization's direction. Members will work on engaging students nationwide to develop Student Chapters at collaborating institutions, support NHMA committees on projects including training curriculum and research for current event white papers, and connect with like-minded professionals. We encourage students of all backgrounds, early career professionals, researchers, and SMEs, to join the committee.
Chairman: Grace Olenzak
Co-Chairman: Sonia Clemens
