Board Members

Marv Nauman
Biography coming soon.
Chairman
Rachael Anderson is a native of Western Australia, but lived in Hawaii and Arizona before moving to Tacoma, WA where she and her husband raised six children. Passionate about people, she has been involved with community preparedness for over 20 years, eventually becoming a CERT Program Manager, Washington State Train-the-Trainer and Program Manager instructor. Anderson piloted youth programs in Pierce County for FEMA’s My Preparedness Initiative (MyPI), and two years for Bremerton’s Washington Youth Academy on the Army’s National Guard base. She works with local community organizations, culturally diverse communities requiring translators, as well as faith-based groups. Anderson was one of four individuals invited to teach CERT Train-the-Trainer in Tokyo, Japan.
She currently serves as vice-chairman for Pierce County Citizen Corps Council, President of Brigham Young University -Idaho's international genealogical society, and serves jointly with her husband as a Resource Couple (consultant) serving over 700 single adults in Pierce County.
Anderson studied constitutional law, geology and natural disasters, and earned degrees in Business Management, and Professional Studies with an emphasis in organizational leadership, entrepreneurship, social media marketing, and scientific methodologies in family history research. As hobbies, she enjoys travel, interviewing business owners, blogging, writing, composing, white water rafting with her family, and singing at the top of her lungs while on family road trips.

Rachael Anderson
Vice Chair/CERT Instructor

John is retired from the City of Tacoma, the President of Local Lodge 297, a member of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and Vice President District Lodge 160 IAM & AW.
He has earned a Bachelor of Science in Emergency Preparedness and Readiness Management fromNational Labor College. And he is a Community Coordinator for PC-NET Lacamas Valley Ranches West
John Geringer
Treasurer
Mike is the retired owner of a private security company & was deployed to hurricane Katrina in 2005. He has been an active CERT Instructor since 2011. He Is a board member of the Citizens Corps Council of Pierce County. He is
also on the steering committee of the Wa State Summer Special Olympics & the Disaster chair of the American Legion department of Washington.

Mike Batnick
CERT Instructor/American Legion

Sharon Green
Biography coming soon.
CERT Instructor/Shelter Attendant
Biography coming soon.

Larry Dorothy
CERT Program Manager/Instructor

Donna Vitale
Biography coming soon.
Pierce County Ermergency Management
Biography coming soon.

Rachel Adler
Program Manager/Instructor/West Pierce Fire