Committees
The Glossary Committee
Chair:
Andrea Abrams, MBCP
Members:
Kathy Acevedo, ABCP
Coordinator
Rob Alaniz, MBCP
Gayle Anders, MBCI, CBCP
Kelvin Brim, CBCP
Sarah Gucciardo, CBCP
Steven Lei, CBCP
Susan Lounsbury, MBCP
Doniella McKoy, MBCI, CBCP
Gayle Mitcham, MBCP, MBCI, CCCP, CBCA, SCRA
Michelle Noah, CBCP
Kyle Shinn, ABCP
Sheila Starnes, CBCP
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The Glossary Committee is responsible for developing, maintaining and updating DRI's International Glossary for Resilience in accordance with current industry best practices, international standards and guidance, and the DRI Professional Practices. The Committee regularly reviews resilience based terms and definitions from international standards and industry leaders for inclusion, update or removal from the Glossary. The Glossary is currently available in five (5) languages, and is free to download. To be eligible to serve on the Glossary Committee, the candidate must be a certified professional in good standing who is willing to volunteer their time. Committee meetings normally occur quarterly and time is required for research and review of terms. Multilingual candidates are welcome. If you are interested in volunteering, please email kacevedo@drii.org.
The International Glossary for Resilience and its translations are maintained by their respective committees.
Andrea Abrams, MBCP
Chair
Biography
Andrea Abrams, MBCP is a DRI instructor and chair of the DRI Glossary Committee. Abrams hosted the DRI webinar series Profiles in Resilience, featuring interviews with compelling and inspirational global leaders in the resilience community. Abrams also represented the financial industry on our most recent DRI Professional Practices workgroup, a national group of volunteers dedicated to ensuring the professional practices continue to reflect the evolving resilience industry.
Abrams is Lead Business Analyst for the Operations & Safety area of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where she has been employed for over 25 years. She also provides communications consulting through her LLC.
Abrams earned a Master’s degree in English Literature from San Francisco State University, a Bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley, and in addition to her MBCP is a Prosci certified Change Management Practitioner. Abrams also completed a certificate course in Diversity + Inclusion through Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Abrams prioritizes community and serves as a proctor for the California State Bar examination and The College Board’s SAT exam, along with Advanced Placement exams at Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California. Prior to currently serving as vice president of her homeowners association for the past nine years, Abrams has held several appointed roles including both Library Commissioner and Commissioner on the Status of Women for the City of Pasadena, California and volunteer with Buffalo Field Campaign completing the annual census of wild bison at Yellowstone National Park.