Built After 9/11: How Clatsop County Prepared for the Next Emergency with Margo Lalich
Send us Fan Mail In this second conversation on emergency management, Jan sits down with Margo Lalich, a public health leader with more than 30 years of experience. Margo was Clatsop County's first public health preparedness coordinator, hired in 2002, and later served as interim public health director during the COVID-19 response. Margo explains how 9/11 pushed the federal government to invest in public health infrastructure, and how that money reached small coastal communities. She wa...
14 Sept 2026
"The Great Coastal Gale of 2007: Lessons in Community Resilience"
Send us Fan Mail Nine days without power. Camellia bushes ripping wires from houses. A dialysis center with no generator. 🌪️ In this episode of Women of the Northwest, host Jan Johnson sits down with five incredible women — a community engagement coordinator, two former school principals, an ER doctor, and a retired emergency management veteran — to relive the 2007 Great Coastal Gale and share what it really takes to build a resilient community. From ham radios to grab...
21 Aug 2026
From Alaska Fishing Boats to Circumnavigating the Globe: Heidi Brown's Year Aboard the Clipper Race
Send us Fan Mail Astoria Oregon's Heidi Brown spent a year racing around the world as amateur crew on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race — an 11-month, eight-leg circumnavigation aboard a 70-foot racing sailboat. In this episode of Women of the Northwest, Heidi shares how a chance sailing lesson in 2018 led her from the waters of Alaska to the Southern Ocean, the Panama Canal, and a dozen ports across six continents. She talks candidly about living with 20 crewmates at sea for...
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