ABOUT

Diana Homsey is an emergency manager from San Francisco, California. After attending Boston University, she began her emergency management career in Alaska where she worked as a helicopter glacier guide and trained as a first responder with local Fire, EMS, and Search and Rescue. From 1998 to 2013 she was a search and rescue search manager in Alaska and California.

From 2005-2010, Diana worked with the company 2041 Antarctic Expeditions as a Logistics Coordinator and traveled to the Antarctic numerous times bringing business leaders, young influencers, and students on environmental education ship-based expeditions.

Diana started with the City of San Francisco Department of Emergency Management in 2010 as a Special Events Coordinator.  It was then she began working on the San Francisco Fleet Week Senior Leaders Seminar and Defense Support for Civil Authority Exercise Series.  She joined the San Francisco Fleet Week Association in 2013 and as the volunteer Chief of Staff.  From 2014 – 2017 Diana served the Port of San Francisco as the Emergency Services Coordinator and helped forge the Port Reopening Coalition. In 2019 she joined the UCSF Police Department Homeland Security Management Team and became the Deputy Director in April 2020 during the COVID pandemic. From 2021-2022 she served as the Director of Emergency Management at the Department of Public Works. Diana has continued her dedication to the Fleet Week program throughout the past twelve years and has returned as the Chief of Staff full time in 2023.