Dailey named director of S. Arizona Red Cross
Julia Dailey is new executive director for the American Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter.
She succeeds John Patton, who is now the regional chief operating officer for the American Red Cross Arizona-New Mexico-El Paso Region.
Dailey’s volunteer work with the Red Cross was prompted by a personal medical emergency. As a college student vacationing in Mexico, she developed a severe allergic reaction after being stung by a stingray. She was rushed to the Mexican Red Cross where she received free care.
The skills she learned during Red Cross CPR and first-aid classes helped her save a life a couple of years later. After volunteering on a disaster response team in Oregon, she decided to seek a career in the Red Cross and was hired as a disaster program manager.
Prior to her new post, she was Red Cross division disaster state relations director for Texas, Arizona and New Mexico; and worked in Honduras with the Peace Corps. She received her master’s degree in regional planning from Cornell University.
