Trevor Covington is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) with over a decade of experience leading disaster preparedness and response programs at local, state, and national levels. He started his disaster career with the American Red Cross serving as the Eastern Idaho District Manager and later as the Senior Disaster Program Manager for Oregon. During this time, Trevor led response and recovery operations across the West Coast in addition to building and chairing non-profit response coalitions called Community Organizations Active in Disasters (COADs). After spending a year consulting for FEMA Region X as part of Teracore and teaching emergency management courses for Ashford University, Trevor joined the Washington State Department of Health (WA DOH).

While serving at WA DOH, he developed innovative resilience and response strategies, plans, and programs by assembling experts and stakeholders, developing a shared vision, and shepherding efforts towards meaningful and lasting impacts.  In addition to his role as a resilience subject matter expert, Trevor served as a lead Operation Section Chief responsible for managing disaster response operations for the agency and training operational response personnel. These disaster responses ranged from wildfires, to floods, to radiation incidents, to the initial COVID-19 response. In addition to his experience in the field, Trevor holds a Master of Science in Emergency Management, is a graduate of FEMA’s National Emergency Management Advanced Academy, and has hundreds of hours of preparedness and response training. Additionally, he is certified as an Incident Command System Instructor and Operations Section Chief Trainer. Being extremely passionate about the field and mentoring others, Trevor is frequently developing and delivering talks and trainings about emergency preparedness.