FAIRFAX, Va.\u2014The International Association of Fire Chiefs announced Tuesday last week the participants accepted into the inaugural year of the\u00a0IAFC Diversity Executive Leadership Program, or iDELP, among them the CNMI\u2019s own fire chief, Claudio Norita.<\/p>\n
iDELP is a new program developed by the IAFC to bring together a group of current and future leaders to foster a diverse and inclusive leadership and workforce. The program aims to provide them with the tools necessary to become national leaders in the fire and emergency service and the IAFC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fellows will meet for the first time next month at Fire-Rescue International in Charlotte, N.C. for a two-day session. The group plans to meet two to three times in person throughout the program. In between the in-person meetings, the group will communicate via KnowledgeNet, the IAFC\u2019s online community.<\/p>\n
Throughout the course, the fellows will hear from experienced leaders at the IAFC and explore avenues in which they can become leaders on the national stage and assist others to do the same.<\/p>\n
Accepted into the 2017-2019 program are:<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tDeputy Chief Geo Blackshire, Palo Alto (Calif.) Fire Department<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tBattalion Chief Debbie Carpenter, Carrollton (Tex.) Fire Rescue<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tAssistant Fire Chief Joe Dixon, Howard County (Md.) Fire & Rescue<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tBattalion Chief Oscar Espinosa, Graham (Wash.) Fire & Rescue<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tFire Chief Virgil Fernandez, City of Miami Beach (Fla.) Fire Department<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tFire Chief Darnell Fullum, DeKalb County (Ga.) Fire Rescue<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tDeputy Chief\/Fire Marshal Shawn Hanson, Greater Naples (Fla.) Fire Rescue District<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tBattalion Chief Radcliffe McKenzie, Central Pierce (Wash.) Fire & Rescue<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tBattalion Chief Shirese Moore, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Fire Department<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tHealth and Safety Chief Officer R. Carlos Nava, Santa Fe (N.M.) Fire Department<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tCommissioner Claudio Norita, Northern Mariana Islands Department of Fire and EMS<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tDeputy Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi, Vaughan (Ontario) Fire & Rescue Service<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tDeputy Fire Chief Rudy Ruiz, Perrysburg (Ohio) Fire Division<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tParamedic Field Chief Deborah Sommer, Chicago (Ill.) Fire Department<\/p>\n
\t\u2022\tDeputy Chief Laurie VandeSchoot, Calgary (Alberta) Fire Department<\/p>\n
According IAFC president and board chair John Sinclair, who initiated the program, the group will focus on challenges that fire-service leaders are facing related to inclusiveness and diversity at the department level and the impact those challenges are having on the entire fire and emergency service.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to offer these current and future leaders a forum to learn from each other, explore and develop solutions to current and emerging challenges and share those ideas and solutions with the IAFC community. Further, we aim for this select group of individuals to grow and enhance as leaders and ambassadors of the IAFC.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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