Dan Stoneking
Dan Stoneking is the owner and principal of Stoneking Strategic Communications, the author of Cultivate Your Garden: Crisis Communications from 30,000 Feet to Three Feet, the founder and vice president of the Emergency Management External Affairs Association, a columnist at Homeland Security Today and an adjunct professor in the Communications Department at West Chester University.
Dan’s expertise includes 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 national business emergency operation center; and voluntarily deployed to Puerto Rico within hours of Hurricane Maria’s impact as the lead spokesperson.
Previously, Dan served as the External Affairs Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 3. That position followed and built upon a career in both the corporate and government arenas focused on public affairs, to include roles at FEMA Headquarters as Director, Private Sector and Deputy and Acting Director of Public Affairs.
Dan lives in West Chester, PA with his daughters, Ivy Grace and Chloe Lane.