Anita Chandra

We needed different ways of thinking about what was classically emergency preparedness or emergency management, it just took a broader and more diverse network to handle the kind of stress and strain that we’re now dealing with.

You’re trying to do a lot of different things for multiple types of risks and disasters, so any federal policy essentially, although they have their nuances and distinction, that doesn’t have that [flexible] orientation can be, not always, but can be difficult because they might impose too much structure.