WDC is excited to host a conversation with Caitlin Durkovic on Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30 pm at Citizens and Culture in Silver Spring. Register now.

Caitlin Durkovich was Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor for Resilience and Response in the Biden-Harris White House. In the last few months, many of DHS’s critical roles have been terminated or scaled back.

Most Americans associate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with securing our borders, managing immigration, and preventing terrorism. But its mission is far more expansive and instrumental to how we lead our everyday lives. DHS has the largest retail presence of any Federal government agency and its employees and offices are located in hundreds of communities across the country. DHS performs lifesaving missions, enhances our preparedness and response to the increasing number and intensity of climate events, and ensures the resilience of the infrastructure we depend on everyday, including safeguarding cyberspace and defending our election infrastructure from bad actors.

Ms. Durkovich joins us to explain how the dismantling of one of the largest Federal departments will impact our everyday lives and what we can do to strengthen our community resilience.