Presenter

LCDR Brittani Koroknay graduated from the United Stated Coast Guard Academy in 2007 earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine and Environmental Science. Her first duty assignment was Sector Hampton Roads in Portsmouth, Virginia where she served in the Incident Management Division and Sector Command Center. The focus during her first three years as a Coast Guard Officer were search and rescue and pollution response. In 2010, she was selected to the Coast Guard’s Environmental Management Graduate School program and earned a Master of Science degree in Biological Oceanography in 2012 from the College of William and Mary. She was then assigned to the Coast Guard Incident Management Assist Team in Norfolk, Virginia. Notable responses during this assignment included the Texas City Y spill, in which a ship collision resulted in approximately 168,000 gallons of intermediate fuel oil to be released into the Houston Galveston Ship Channel. In 2014, she deployed to the Rio Grande Valley joining a Unified Command comprised of many Federal, State and Local response agencies necessary to manage the large influx of unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border. In 2015, she was once again assigned to Sector Hampton Roads and served in the Contingency Planning and Force Readiness Department where she administratively maintained the Virginia Area Contingency Plan and Severe Weather Plan. She then took a brief sabbatical, and after two years in the Coast Guard Reserve, she was assigned as the Fifth District Command Center Chief in 2019 and oversaw the search and rescue readiness for Rescue Coordination Center Norfolk and four Coast Guard Sectors in the Mid-Atlantic region. Currently, LCDR Koroknay serves as the Emergency Management and Force Readiness Chief at Sector Northern New England. LCDR Koroknay maintains her currency as a Certified Emergency Manager through the International Association of Emergency Managers and the United States Coast Guard.