PAULA D. GORDON, P[h.D.]{.smallcaps}

**Educator, Writer, Analyst, and Consultant**

**Washington, DC**

**pgordon@erols.com**

Dr. Paula D. Gordon is an Educator, Writer, Analyst, and Independent
Contractor and Consultant. She has served as a member of the
Practitioner Faculty of Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and has also
served in an adjunct or contract instructor role at Virginia
Commonwealth University, Auburn University, and The Washington Center
for Internships and Academic Seminars. Dr. Gordon previously taught as
an adjunct at the University of Richmond, Jacksonville State University,
George Washington University, the University of Virginia, and several
institutions in the California State University System. She has served
as a presenter at the Western Management Development Center of the U.S.
Office of Personnel Management. She has worked in a variety of
departments and agencies of the Federal government including the
National Institute of Mental Health; the National Science Foundation;
the Federal Energy Office and Federal Energy Administration; the Federal
Emergency Management Agency; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

In 1998, Dr. Gordon founded a Website that has since been named
GordonHomeland.com (http://gordonhomeland.com). This Website is provided
as a free public service and was created for use by educators, students,
and researchers as well as leaders and decisionmakers in the public and
private sectors, and members of the media. GordonHomeland.com focuses on
topics of particular interest to those working in the fields of
emergency management and homeland security and includes many articles,
presentations, and reports on those topics. Of particular interest may
be a lengthy compilation of references and resources bearing on
emergency management and homeland security concerns. More than 16
different subject areas are included. The contents of GordonHomeland.com
have been incorporated in the Homeland Security Digital Library at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and information
concerning the Website has been noted on the Websites of several
consortia of universities with curricula in the fields of homeland
security and emergency management.

Articles posted on GordonHomeland.com that may be of particular interest
to those in the fields of emergency management and homeland security
include: "Capabilities and Skills Needed by Those in New Roles of
Responsibility for Homeland Security at the Federal, State, and Local
Levels of Government"; "Comparative Scenario and Options Analysis:
Important Tools for Agents of Change Post 9/11 and Post Hurricane
Katrina" (including a typology of emergencies of different levels of
severity); and a newer article entitled, "The State of Emergency
Management and Homeland Security." In October 2007, Dr. Gordon was the
keynote presenter at the Indiana Emergency Management/Homeland Security
Higher Education Advisory Board's Third Annual Emergency
Management/Homeland Security Higher Education Conference, speaking on
"The State of Emergency Management and Homeland Security--The Need for a
Common Sense of Direction."

Dr. Gordon's recent writing and presentations have focused on the
current status of the fields of homeland security and emergency
management; the need to further develop an all-hazards approach to
homeland security and emergency management education at institutions of
higher education throughout the Nation; and the need to bridge the
organizational and professional cultural gaps that can be found to exist
between those in the field of homeland security and emergency
management.

Dr. Gordon earned a B.A. in rhetoric from the University of California
at Berkeley; an M.A. in public administration from the University of
California at Berkeley; and a Ph.D. in public administration from
American University in Washington, DC.