Earlier today, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) hosted the 53rd in a series of weekly COVID-19 response briefings for faith leaders. Today's briefing featured San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Deputy Director Adrienne Bechelli, Office of Resilience and Capital Planning Resilience GIS Analyst & Co-Manager of the Heat and Air Quality Resilience Project Alex Morrison, and San Francisco Department of Public Health Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch Deputy Director Tiffany Rivera. Their collective presentation provided background on extreme heat and wildfire events, identified actions for San Franciscans to prepare for and respond to those events, and outlined a new initiative to implement medium-to-long-term strategies in order that the City may be more resilient to these events in the years to come.
Also participating were Zoom Briefing Moderator/SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas, SFIC Founder and Past Chair Rita R. Semel, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Senior Minister Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter Disaster Program Manager Allison Biddinger, Archdiocese of San Francisco Department of Safety & Security-Risk Management Director Derek Gaskin, and San Francisco Towers Interfaith Chaplain Rev. Hans Hoch, M.Div. Special appreciation is extended to SFIC Program/Administrative Associate Cynthia Zamboukos and the COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Community Partners Group Coordinator John McKnight, Virtual Outreach Team Coordinator Tre Russell Allen, Briefing Producer Alisa Kerawala, and Leads Sharon Walton, Hafiza Salehbhai and Nick Marino.
Please join us next Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 8:30 am, when we welcome some of our City's most prominent faith leaders who will reflect on the past year and a half's Pandemic experience, lessons learned and their vision for a "new normal" of religious life in San Francisco moving forward.
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