Summit Roundtables. Donna has also championed several other issues during her career and has led multiple efforts to improve diversity in the fire service. This has included a great deal of mentoring, encouraging, and preparing women to achieve their own career goals. Donna earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Georgia. She completed the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program in 2012 and has achieved the Chief Officer designation from the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE). Donna also holds a post-graduate Certificate of Community Preparedness and Disaster Management from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Donna Black is a very capable and humble person and leader. Her fire service career accomplishments have been many, and that is sure to continue in her new role as CEO of the IAFC. Professionally, she is an asset to the success of the fire and emergency services community. And personally, she is a wonderful friend to many of us and shares her success in life with all those who have surrounded her. Whether looking backward at her incredible fire service history, or forward at her exciting new potential, the view you see is not only one of past successes, but also one of even more exciting work and achievements in her future. The nation's fire service is better because it has Donna Black within its ranks, and we owe her a debt of gratitude, not only for what she has done, but for the results she is sure to accomplish from here on. Thank you for being who and what you are, Donna, and for deciding to share "you" with the fire service! Appreciate you!
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