My Story

I'm Tamica Foots-Rachal, founder of FFWD with Foots.

For years, I worked in state government in emergency preparedness and disability services program management. In that work, I saw the same gap over and over: communities that needed usable, real-world emergency preparedness education weren't getting it — especially the people who needed it most.

That gap became my mission. I spent my career upskilling on the latest in preparedness and pairing it with my expertise in curriculum development and design, so that hard-to-reach communities aren't just handed information — they get the chance to practice what they learn before an emergency ever happens. Since retiring from state service in 2023, this is the work I've committed myself to fully: partnering with communities of color, people with disabilities, and everyone in between to build real readiness, not just awareness.