Wendy Freitag
Program Director
Wendy Freitag is the director of the Master of Infrastructure Planning & Management program and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Urban Design & Planning. She brings over 25 years of private/public and nonprofit leadership experience in emergency management, business continuity, crisis management and global physical security, working on diverse projects on four continents. During her tenure with FEMA, Washington Mutual and Microsoft, she gained valuable operational response expertise in events such as 9/11, the Nisqually earthquake, Seattle’s World Trade Organization protests and the Iraq War.
Before coming to the University of Washington, Wendy served as the external affairs manager for the Washington Military Emergency Management Division, where she pioneered several national award-winning programs in the areas of disaster preparedness and public/private partnerships. In 2012, in recognition of her industry leadership, she was honored as a White House Champion of Change in the category of Disaster Preparedness.