Katherine Rowden

Katherine is the Silver Jackets National Program Manager – a program that promotes interagency flood and hazard risk reduction efforts at the local and regional level, through support of State-, Territory-, and Tribe-led Silver Jackets interagency teams. In her current position she also leads the National Interagency Silver Jackets Teams and is co-chair of the Interagency Post-Wildfire Integration Council.
She started at USACE in 2021 in Emergency Management and moved into her current position in 2023. Prior to her time in USACE, she spent over a decade in the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Hydrology program, as a Service Hydrologist in Spokane, Washington, as well as the Western U.S. Hydrology Program Manager. At NWS she worked on forecasts, warnings, social science, emergency response, interagency coordination, public outreach, planning, policy, and research. She was a member of both the Idaho and Washington State Silver Jackets interagency teams, as well as the National Interagency Post-Wildfire Coordination Group. She started her career in the private sector as a water resources engineer after graduating from Gonzaga University.
During her time at USACE and NWS she has worked on numerous flood and wildfire emergencies and federal disasters and is keenly aware of challenges faced by communities trying to prepare for, respond to, and recover from these events.