Jerusha Kasch

Jerusha Kasch has served as Director of Institutional Crisis Management at Rice University since 2017.  In addition to 15 years of experience as an emergency manager, Jerusha worked 17 years in multiple response systems including, EMS, law enforcement, hospitals, and clinical care.


She is a Certified Emergency Manager (International Association of Emergency Managers) and a certified FEMA NIMS instructor and Incident Management Team member.  She has filled nearly all ICS command and general staff roles in incident response.