Oct. 27, 2020
Connect and Serve with Samantha Hawkins
Lori Henricksen, director of the emergency telecommunications program for high schoolers at the Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas (Nevada), discusses the creation of her program and the challenges it presents,
Samantha Hawkins, communications officer with Cobb County 911 in Marietta, Georgia, discusses the role of customer service in emergency dispatch, bias in the dispatch center, and what it's like to be a woman of color working in 911. For Your Information: Read Samantha's essays: https://www.humanize911.com/post/being-the-coworker-you-d-want-to-work-with https://www.911derwomen.com/blog/bigger-than-the-bias-being-a-person-of-color-in-911 Learn more about the care gap: https://aedrjournal.org/filling-the-care-gap-with-kate-jennings/ Learn more about 911der Women: https://aedrjournal.org/911der-women-with-sara-weston/