Dr. Linda Kiltz is an adjunct faculty in the Bush School of Government and Public Service where she teaches courses in emergency management and homeland security. Her research interests have focused on homeland security policy as well as the impact of climate change on homeland security and emergency management.
Dr. Linda Kiltz is the former the Academic Program Director for the Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Policy, Master of Science in Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Master of Science in Emergency Management in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Walden University. She was also a professor in the MPA program at Texas A & M University in Corpus Christi. Dr. Kiltz has over two decades of leadership experience working in both the nonprofit and government sector developing and implementing innovative programs and policies to address community problems including crime and violence, poverty and hunger, and emergency preparedness among vulnerable populations. Besides working in higher education, Dr. Kiltz has served as an officer in the U.S. Army, a sheriff’s deputy and training manager in local law enforcement, and as a community educator for nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing family violence and child abuse.
In her spare time, she operates an organic farming operation with her partner near Kalispell, Montana where they raise grass fed beef, eggs from free range chickens and 49 varieties of organic apples.
