

Together, the groups participate in planning meetings and tabletop exercises, sharing ideas, information and decisions.

To truly streamline a coordinated response effort, Barbiere has been deliberate since the early days of the pandemic to develop, maintain and encourage various working groups within Georgetown, made up of stakeholders from a range of departments such as Facilities, Residential Living, Auxiliary and Business Services, Communications, and the Police Department among others. Throughout the past year, Georgetown has continued planning and holding tabletop exercises, putting stakeholders through different phases and worst- and best-case scenarios to prepare the entire campus community, including a planned complete reopening in the fall of 2021. When March 2020 came around, the Mayor declared a state of emergency and in-effect shut down D.C., and Georgetown went virtual, including its emergency response activities.
