Kevin McGowan and Leslie Luke on Managing Operation Allies Welcome, COVID-19, and Other New Missions: Interview Transcript and Career Highlights

This report, which is part of the New Missions for Emergency Management series, provides a transcript of an interview with Kevin McGowan and Leslie Luke of the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management on managing local responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Operation Allies Welcome (which resettled evacuees from Afghanistan in the United States after the U.S. military's withdrawal in 2021).