Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh (MS, MA, PhD) currently serves as the Director at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy and the Florida Public Affairs Center at Florida State University where she is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, emergency management and disaster health planning. Formerly with FEMA, Audrey now works extensively on innovative solutions for government and appears consistently in the press including MSNBC, CBS news, and in the AP. Audrey has served on several national and international boards and is currently a Senior Board Member for The International Emergency Management Society, and the Korean International Society for Crisis and Emergency Management. Audrey also serves as the visiting terrorism professor for the Emergency Management program at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University.

Janet Dilling (MPA, PhD) is the Senior Advisor to the Center for Disaster Risk Policy and the current Director of the Emergency Management Graduate and Undergraduate Certificate Programs at Florida State University. She is a principal faculty member for the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy's emergency management curriculum. Janet also serves as a project manager and project leader for the Center for Disaster Risk Policy, where she has worked for over 11 years.

Outside of CDRP, Janet serves as President of the Tallahassee-based company, TEAM Simulations LLC, which has been given an exclusive commercialization license by the FSU Research Foundation to expand marketing of a first-of-its-kind, computer-based disaster exercise system known as TEST (Tabletop Exercise System Technology). TEST, created and refined by researchers at FSU's Center for Disaster Risk Policy, was designed to simplify the development, delivery and reporting processes that often make disaster-planning exercises unwieldy.

Rob McDaniel is currently a Faculty Researcher and Chief of Operations at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy, Florida State University. Rob is a graduate of Florida State University, the U.S. Air Force Air War College curriculum and holds a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management. He provides operations, planning, training and exercise expertise in emergency management on local, state, federal and non-profit agency projects. Mr. McDaniel also supplies technical assistance in Domestic Security/Preparedness and specializes in Exercise Design/Development and Bio-Terrorism response. Mr. McDaniel is a Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) instructor and has spearheaded several large statewide exercises. He is principle author and instructor of the nationally recognized "Planning Considerations for Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents" curriculum at the National Terrorism Preparedness Institute. Having previously served in operations, training, exercises and evaluations with the United States Air Force, Florida Division of Emergency Management, Florida Department of Health, the St. Petersburg College and several private consulting firms, Mr. McDaniel has actively participated in hundreds of crisis situations.

Jarrett Broder (MS) is the Director of Information Technology at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy. He has 11 years experience in the Information Technology field as a network administrator, server administrator, systems administrator, web master, programmer, project manager, graphic designer and provider of technical consultation and support to both public and private sector organizations. Mr. Broder has been a key member in a group of programmers and designers that have built several enterprise level federal web applications which have received recognition from the governor of Florida and the President of the United States. His 7 years participation in state and federal exercise programs give him a well rounded understanding of the state and federal models for training and testing as well as the key role technology can play in the dissemination and management of training materials. Mr. Broder has built several computer applications that have assisted in the planning and real-time play of many exercises including, The Bioshield Exercises (Strategic National Stockpile), Beleaguered Bus (Florida Department of Health) and Caduceus Shield. He has also been involved with furthering the distance learning efforts of several colleges at Florida State University. Mr. Broder serves as an adjunct instructor for technology related classes at the Askew School of Public Administration at Florida State University.

David Merrick is a Senior Analyst with over 12 years experience in information technology and five years at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy at The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. While with CDRP, Mr. Merrick has headed the software development of several emergency management software products, including hazard mitigation, exercise development and facilitation, and training programs.

As part of the exercise team at CDRP, Mr. Merrick has facilitated dozens of discussion based, as well as functional and full scale, exercises. Having served as an exercise facilitator, controller or simulator, he has assisted agencies at the local, state and federal levels assess their plans, procedures and capabilities in response to scenarios ranging from bio-terrorism to waterborne illness and radiological events. David is a subject matter expert in the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) as it applies to the development and facilitation of both discussion based and operations based exercises. He has also guest lectured on terrorism as part of the Askew School of Public Administration.

Jim Jackson is a project manager for emergency management, planning, training and curriculum development for the center. His responsibilities include business development, project design, development, and management. Based out of Crocket, Texas, Jim serves as the Houston County Office of Emergency Management Exercise Training Officer, where he designs, develops, conducts and evaluates emergency management/Homeland Security exercises for this county and its cities. Jim formerly served as the Idaho Bureau of Disaster Services State Exercise Training Officer and Public Information Officer for the State of Idaho and its forty-four (44) counties.

Sue Sullivan (MA) is the Center's Business Manager and has been with the Center for 7 years. She received her undergraduate and Master's degrees at the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is responsible for the business functions of the Center, including budgeting, payroll, human resources, purchasing and travel.

Danny is a graduate assistant with CDRP and a full-time student at Florida State University. He is an integral part of the Center and assists with research, preparation of project deliverables, courier services and general office processes. He is expected to graduate with a degree in International Affairs Spring of 2008.

Dr. Brower is an Associate Professor and serves as Director of the Center for Civic and Nonprofit Leadership. His research and teaching interests include organization behavior and theory, qualitative research methods, organizational change and development, nonprofit management, and capacity building in the independent sector.