Janelle Williams Hughes

Mrs. Janelle Williams Hughes serves as Project Director for the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center. She joined the Synergy team in 2007, and has since supported the work of multiple Federal agencies contracts, including more than six U.S. Department of Education centers, offices, and programs; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Administration for Children and Families, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health; the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and U.S. Department of Transportation. In her current role, she directs the creation and implementation of a multi-tiered project management plan that aims to enhance the federal government’s mission to provide technical assistance and training to state, territorial, local, and tribal education and emergency management agencies on key safety and security topics. She oversees content development for and management of various resource types; plans and hosts live and virtual meetings; and leads the development of print, HTML and mobile tools. During her time in this role, the REMS TA Center has been featured in various news outlets and various state-based media sources, sites, blogs. Mrs. Hughes also represents ED and REMS TA Center as a speaker at both virtual and live public-facing events focused on a variety of topics—natural hazards, biological hazards, technological hazards, and adversarial- and human-caused threats—and hosted in collaboration with federal and national partner.