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Jeanne-Aimée De Marrais
Jeanne-Aimee De Marrais is the Director of Save the Children's Domestic Emergencies Unit. She was instrumental in establishing the Unit in 2006, helping to develop the strategic plan, build response capacity, and lead preparedness, response and recovery program planning and implementation.
De Marrais serves as Team Leader on Save the Children disaster response teams and manages the US REDI Team's 43 members. She worked for 14 months on the Gulf Coast helping create and lead Save the Children's Hurricane Katrina Response programs in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. She also led Save the Children's responses to: the 2007 Southern California Wildfires; spring 2008 tornadoes in Tennessee and Arkansas, June 2008 mid-western floods in Iowa and Indiana; and summer 2009 Hurricanes Dolly, Gustav and Ike.
For nearly three years before the Hurricane Katrina disaster response, De Marrais was the Director of External Affairs and Resource Development for Save the Children's U.S. Programs division, serving children living in impoverished rural communities across the United States, including in Central Appalachia, the Mississippi River Delta, the southwest and California's Central Valley.
Prior to joining Save the Children, De Marrais work for the Maryland Legislature's Chairman of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families, serving in both his legislative and political offices. In that role she helped create and implement a large, multi-dimensional legislative agenda strategically designed to improve disadvantaged children's and families' well-being. The agenda included a results-based school readiness initiative and was focused on ensuring that programs funded by the legislative and executive branches serving children and families were results-based, collaborative and effective. Before working in the public sector, De Marrais taught middle school in Colorado and in the inner city. De Marrais started her career working in international healthcare for the Pathfinder Fund. She holds degrees from Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
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