Victoria Salinas

Victoria Salinas is vice president of programs and communications at FUSE Corps, a national nonprofit executive fellowship program. Previously, she was chief resilience officer and deputy city administrator for Oakland, Calif., where she spearheaded planning, policy and legislative efforts to address climate, disaster and socio-economic vulnerability. She also has worked alongside officials at all levels of government at the World Bank, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United Nations to plan recovery efforts following major disasters, and led federal interagency efforts to develop new policies and programs that now guide disaster recovery in the United States.