Rafael Brinner leads the Community Security Program at the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation, providing guidance, advice, and training to promote the safety and resilience for houses of worship, JCCs, and other nonprofit organizations around the Bay Area. Raised in Berkeley, Rafael left to pursue a career in counterterrorism in Washington, DC and London before returning to the Bay Area in 2004. Rafael draws on over 25 years’ experience working with government agencies, law enforcement, first responders, and corporate security partners, to share best practices for anticipating and mitigating threats.
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Gina Doolan
Critical Infrastructure Subject Matter Expert
The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) is one of 79 fusion centers in the United States. Fusion centers grew out of the tragic events that occurred on September 11th, 2001, and are designed to promote information sharing between federal, state, local, tribal, and private entities. Specializations within the NCRIC include critical infrastructure protection, cyber security, strategic and tactical analysis, threat and vulnerability assessments, private sector outreach, large planned event support, and more.
Gina Doolan is the critical infrastructure subject matter expert at the NCRIC in San Francisco. Mrs. Doolan’s law enforcement and intelligence background spans over 21 years and includes service at the Northern California High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (NC HIDTA) and the California Department of Justice. Mrs. Doolan has extensive experience in domestic threat strategic intelligence analysis and violent criminal and narcotic tactical case support. Mrs. Doolan is currently working with the other California fusion centers, the California State Threat Assessment Center (STAC), and the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) to develop a California Peace Officer Standards in Training (POST) certified course to train first responders how to conduct vulnerability assessments at schools.
