Ms. Madeline Tormey, Deputy Director of Recovery, is an emergency management professional with more than a decade of experience advising local governments and healthcare systems through complex disaster response and recovery. She supports senior public sector leaders in setting recovery strategies, navigating high-risk funding decisions, and engaging effectively with state and federal partners to secure and sustain critical recovery opportunities.

Madeline’s disaster recovery experience began in New York City following Hurricane Sandy. Since then, she has supported efforts for major events, including Hurricanes Michael, Ian, Debby, Milton, and Helene, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work spans both on-the-ground response and long-term recovery, with extensive experience working alongside local and state governments to support real-time emergency operations coordination and deliberately guide the transition from response to recovery.

She brings deep expertise across major federal recovery programs, including Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA), FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and other supplemental funding sources. Through this work, Madeline has helped clients manage and deploy more than $5 billion in federal grant funding. She translates complex program requirements into executable recovery strategies and advises local leaders through escalation and coordination with external partners to keep recovery efforts moving.

Prior to her most recent disaster recovery work, Madeline worked at Ernst & Young (EY) as a finance and strategy consultant supporting federal, state, and local government agencies. Her work included managing a multi-billion-dollar Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reimbursement program, providing people advisory services to public sector clients, and designing and facilitating interactive executive working sessions that supported high-stakes decision-making at the most senior levels of government leadership.

Madeline received her Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business and is a proud undergraduate alum of Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Degrees

Executive Master of Business Administration – University of Maryland College Park Smith School of Business

Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy – Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Affairs

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science – Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Affairs