Territorial grants coordinator named

Posted on May 25 2004

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior David B. Cohen has announced that Marina Tinitali has been hired to coordinate the efforts of the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs to promote accountability for federal grants to the territories.

Tinitali, who was raised in American Samoa, served as an auditor and grant program specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“Promoting accountability for federal grants is one of our top priorities, and it’s significant that we’ve hired someone to focus exclusively on that effort,” Cohen said in a press release.

Before moving to Washington, D.C., to take her new position, Tinitali served for the past six years in Honolulu managing Federal Emergency Management Agency hazard mitigation grants.

Prior to that, Tinitali was a FEMA auditor based in California for more than nine years. From both locations, Tinitali was involved in FEMA activities in Guam, American Samoa, the CNMI, Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.

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