August 4th - Uncensored and Unapologetic
Day 4 of our advocating for the "August is National Emergency Management Awareness Month" campaign covers how Emergency Manager leaders need to sometimes be uncensored and unapologetic.
As part of the “August is National Emergency Management Awareness Month” campaign, originated by the IAEM-USA, to raise awareness of the field of professional Emergency Management (as well as better describe what Emergency Managers do, don’t do, etc.), we bring you our take on 31 Days of Emergency Management Awareness.” Today’s posts - for Day 4 - is on being an uncensored and unapologetic leader in Emergency Management.
These posts are designed for the general public, folks beginning their education and/or careers in Emergency Management, local politicians, community leaders, etc. We figure there are a ton of questions about what Emergency Management is all about, and since we have a open mic and platform to help explain all of it, here goes.
Uncensored
has been censored by the U.S. Federal Government. Yessiree, he had an article which was published at the Naval Postgraduate school get pulled because it had DEI and Climate Change wording in it. While the article has been restored elsewhere online, it still hurts. It was a blatant violation of his Constitutional rights, and he is still seeking justice. That’s a story he is living now, and will hopefully be writing for us all, once it is concluded.
It’s a whole lot better over here at Substack, as well as other platforms -
writes for Medium under his consulting firm’s name Barton Dunant. Mike’s writing over there is still Emergency Management-focused, but a bit less apolitical, and definitely not apologetic. A bit more opinion and less editorial in the op-ed category. Think Silence Dogood.Unapologetic
Unprofessional (NOT!)
Let’s be clear - neither being uncensored nor unapologetic doesn not mean we are unprofessional. On the contrary, all of us who are professional Emergency Managers as writers (especially if we are IAEM® members and/or CEM®s - which many of us are both) we have multiple code of conduct/ethics to adhere to. That tends to be our only filter. Some of us work for governmental agencies, so there’s that, too. Others have connections to non-profits or the U.S. Federal government in ways we have sensitive but unclassified information/intelligence - so we won’t be complaining about or even talking about any of that in the public.
31 Days of Emergency Management Awareness
As part of the “August is National Emergency Management Awareness Month” campaign, originated by the IAEM-USA, to raise awareness of the field of professional Emergency Management (as well as better describe what Emergency Managers do, don’t do, etc.), we bring you our take on