Sadie Bynum is a results-oriented executive with a technical mastery of disaster housing,
response and recovery. She joined Airbnb.org as their Global Emergency Response
Manager in 2021. Bynum created the first ever Referral Program to allow Trusted Entities
the opportunity to collaborate with Airbnb.org to provide displaced households with free,
short term stays in an Airbnb.
She was appointed Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management in 2018
by Mayor Jim Kenney, bringing a wealth of emergency management experience from the
federal, state, and local level with her to oversee the City of Philadelphia.
As a Presidential appointee under the Obama and Trump Administrations, Sadie deployed
to disasters to manage the federal response, recovery, and mitigation operations for
multiple large scale incidents as a Federal Coordinating Officer.
Bynum was also Director of Emergency Preparedness for the New York City Housing
Authority (NYCHA), the largest public housing authority in the United States, serving more
than 600,000 New York residents.
Early in her career, Bynum worked at the New York City Office of Emergency Management,
the Division of Public Safety and Emergency Management in Lee County, Florida, and was
the Public Safety Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia.
Bynum holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with a major in African American
Studies from Syracuse University, and a Master of Public Administration degree with an
emphasis in Emergency Management from Jacksonville State University.