Emily Pelliccia, Deputy Chief, Community Risk & Resilience, Albemarle County Fire Rescue, discusses handling a major traumatic community event and the long-term organizational recovery. Having focused her thesis on co-response models, she emphasizes a trauma-informed and continuous improvement approach for a more resilient community.
About the Speaker
Emily Pelliccia, Deputy Chief of Community Risk and Resilience for Albemarle County Fire Rescue, has worked in public safety for almost 30 years in various operational and executive level roles. She is currently serving as the Deputy Chief of Community Risk and Resilience for Albemarle County Fire Rescue in Charlottesville, Virginia after retiring from the City of Charlottesville in 2022 as the Emergency Manager. In addition to her professional career, Emily has spent most of her adult life focused on improving the health and safety of her community from volunteering for the American Red Cross to serving on several local boards and commissions at any given time.
Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in emergency management from the National Labor College and is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s Local Government Management program. In 2022, she completed her master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School where her research was focused on developing upstream strategies to improve the social determinants of health for the most vulnerable populations.
Emily and her wife live in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, with their teenaged daughter, two dogs, a cat, and some chickens. In her spare time, she enjoys being outdoors with her dogs, gardening, cooking, and attending live music shows
