Tara Hammer, Exercise Director, Central States Communications Association
With a passion for public safety communications, Tara Hammer has served as the Exercise Director for the Central States Communications Exercise since 2017. She also serves as the Secretary for the Central States Communications Association (a 501c3 dedicated to providing quality public safety communications trainings and exercises). She is an instructor for the All Hazards Communications Unit Leader, Communications Technician, and Incident Tactical Dispatcher Courses, and uses that experience to develop exercises specifically designed to help attendees work on their Position Taskbooks, which are turned in for credentialling to the attendees states for credentialling.