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and was the architect of numerous deployments of volunteer psychiatrists
to disasters, as well as acting as executive director and cofounder of the
World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Mental Health Intervention
Program. She received her MPA from Columbia in 2007.

Maggie Jarry, M.S., worked in the 9/11 recovery effort for 6 years through
World Vision (October 2001 to February 2002), Lutheran Social Services/
Lutheran Disaster Response of New York (February 2002 to July 2005),
and New York Disaster Interfaith Services (July 2005 to 2007). As chair of
the New York City 9/11 Unmet Needs Roundtable at its inception in April
2002, Jarry viewed the 9/11 Roundtable as a tool for helping individuals
and as a vehicle for social justice. Later, as director of recovery and advo-
cacy for New York Disaster Interfaith Services, Jarry managed the transi-
tion of the Unmet Needs Roundtable into a vehicle for the newly emerging
needs of World Trade Center (WTC) recovery workers and the long-term
needs of people with 9/11-related mental health difficulties. While attain-
ing a master’s of science in Nonprofit Management at The New School
(New York City), Jarry conducted qualitative research from 2004 to 2006
(using taped interviews and questionnaires) that allowed her to reflectively
engage her colleagues in discourse regarding the early stages of 9/11 recov-
ery. Her chapter in this book is a synthesis of insight she gained from of
her experience and the wisdom of the leaders she interviewed. Currently,
Jarry serves as a mental health consultant in the Adult Mental Health
Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Craig Katz, M.D., is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine (New York City), where he has served in various
roles since 2000. Dr. Katz served as the director of the World Trade Center
Worker/Volunteer Mental Health Monitoring and Treatment Program,
which meets the mental health needs of people who worked or volunteered
at Ground Zero after 9/1l from 2002 through July 2006, and now is the
supervising psychiatrist within that program. He also serves as the direc-
tor of the Fellowship in Global Mental Health at Mount Sinai. Dr. Katz
has previously served as the director of Psychiatry Emergency Services
and then director of Acute Care Psychiatry Services at Mount Sinai. He
received separate teaching awards from medical students and residents in
2001 and was nominated as a faculty member of the Mount Sinai chapter
of the AOA (alpha omega alpha) medical honor society in 2003.
Dr. Katz cofounded Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO) in 1998 as a
charitable organization devoted to the provision of voluntary psychiatric