Nina Delgadillo, Director of Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Nina is a retired Senior Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, having 25 years of distinguished service, holding top secret clearance, and earning title of Senior Special Agent. Nina engaged as master instructor for ATF at the National Academy in Glynco, GA. There, she instructed courses on explosives investigation, undercover investigation (basic and advanced), interviewing, and train the trainer.
Nina conducted complex firearms, narcotics, explosive, and arson investigations, domestic and international terrorism investigations, and undercover investigations. Nina conducted investigations targeting Houses of Worship and also supported prevention efforts to educate Houses of Worship on threat mitigation. Nina engaged in and helped organize live training exercises focused on large-scale crisis incidents in numerous jurisdictions throughout the nation. Her significant career investigations include the Unabom investigation, the Williams Brothers investigation (arson of multiple synagogues, a reproductive health center and a double murder), and international terrorism cases following 9/11 with the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Nina’s investigative work has been featured on syndicated shows including Forensic Files, Investigation Discovery, America’s Most Wanted, and Crimes of the Century.
Among Nina’s other accomplishments, she is a certified instructor for the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) Program, a board member and instructor for “Kops and Kids,” a non-profit organization promoting life skills for at-risk youth and conducted field investigations until joining the San Francisco Field Division staff as the Congressional and Media Affairs representative for Northern California and the state of Nevada. Nina trained law enforcement agencies in crisis media response and best practices. She also supported various states with regional and national media in high profile cases. Nina represented ATF and participated in designated special events such as the Olympic Trials, Super Bowl, PGA, NBA, dignitary protection for presidential candidates, heads of state, and foreign dignitaries. Nina has prepared briefings for federal, state, and local agencies as well as multiple government entities.
Following her ATF retirement, Nina became Director of the Office of Safe Schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District, where she managed a 2.8-million-dollar contract with the Sacramento Police Department and directed the district’s use of an online emergency management system. She also led a large team of school resource officers, probation officers, and non-sworn personnel. The SRO team was contracted to the district and was charged with the responsibility of maintaining a safe and positive environment for 50,000 students, staff members, parents, and members of the surrounding community and 77 school campuses. The team led with engagement and the goal of providing a safe environment for all students, staff and community to include parent and community coalitions supporting special needs students. She collaborated with first responding agencies to create and implement geo fencing around all school properties to enhance communication between the school district and first responders and collaborated with numerous stakeholders, including several law enforcement agencies, community organizations, and school districts, as it related to the safety of the district and surrounding communities. In her role, she also developed comprehensive school safety plans, coordinated and trained police, sheriff, and fire personnel in the district’s emergency management system to ensure a seamless response in crisis situations, and developed and trained staff, students, parents, community members, and other school districts in numerous safety related topics. Nina organized and conducted the district’s first live multi-agency mass casualty exercise for over 300 participants. The exercise was later developed into a training delivered at safety conferences.
Nina has been an active speaker at national school safety conferences and an advisor with national school safety organizations. In 2021, she became the Risk and Safety Coordinator for Schools Insurance Group, a Joint Powers Authority, where she provided specialized guidance related to the coordination of various projects associated with risk management and loss prevention for 34 client school districts and engaged with administrators of client districts, first responders, and the Office of Emergency Services to provide planning, development, and implementation of emergency response protocols. Nina also developed and deployed training to promote safety, mitigate risks, and support positive employee relations and provided oversight and management of Safety Credit Program providing tracking and compliance. Nina applied independent judgement and knowledge of state, local and federal regulations, and legislation to reports, programs and projects, determined corrective actions following inspections and provided recommendations to minimize and reduce risk exposure, and reviewed reports for risk management analysis.
Nina became the Director of Safety/Director of Emergency Preparedness for DPrep Inc and provided consultation and guidance on threats, delivered threat preparedness training, bomb threat awareness and response training, and school safety training.