InterAction Forum

Communication is Aid

Jeanne Bourgault, Internews President, will speak on the panel “Communication Is Aid: Why Communicating With Disaster-Affected Communities Matters,” which is organized by Internews as part of the annual InterAction Forum, held April 30-May 2 in Washington DC. See Schedule.

The Communication is Aid panel will begin at 10:45 May 2:

Moderator: Mark Bartolini, Director, The Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), USAID

Speakers:

• Derk Segaar, Deputy Chief, Communications and Information Services Branch, and Chief, Communications Services Section, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Jeanne Bourgault, President, Internews
• Linda Poteat, Director, Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB)
• Sheila Thornton, Cash in Emergencies Officer, International Response Operations Center, American Red Cross