Jessica Wieder is the Director of Incident Communications Planning for FEMA’s Office of External Affairs. Previously, within the same office, she served as the Deputy Director of Communications and Acting Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Planning. In these roles, Ms. Wieder works with a team of strategic communications specialist, writers, designers, videographers, digital communications specialists, and media outreach experts to develop and disseminate the tools that maintain trust in the agency and provide all people the information they need before, during and after disasters.

Prior to joining FEMA, Ms. Wieder was the Director of the Center for Radiation Information and Outreach at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she served at EPA’s senior radiation public information officer during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, facilitated international panels on emergency response public communication, and was part of the contingency planning teams for the 2011 and 2020 Mars launches.