Nicole Hudnet has more than 27 years supporting Public Safety in the cellular industry. She is a founding member of the Emergency Response Team following 9/11 and remained on the team through the mergers of Nextel, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Nicole is a 2020 Graduate of the Big City Emergency Managers “Emerging Leaders.” Training in ICS and serves as the ESF2 Laison. She provided critical communications in support of public safety response efforts during high profile incidents such as the Salt Lake City Olympics, the Alaskan Airlines plane crash in 2000, the response and recovery efforts following 9/11, natural disasters including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to more current incidents in Uvalde, TX in 2022 and the Maui Wildfires in 2023.