tina buneta, enp, cpe, rpl - director of aurora 911, co.
Tina Buneta, ENP, CPE, RPL currently serves as the Director of Aurora911 in Colorado. She joined the Aurora team in December of 2019 and has served beside her team through the entirety of the COVID pandemic, as well a turbulent summer of civil unrest in 2020. Tina began her public safety career in 1999 as a front line telecommunicator for the Colorado State Patrol, and ultimately served the CSP for twenty years and in four communication centers as a Communications Training Officer, Communications Supervisor, and Regional Center Manager. Additionally, Tina has nearly two decades’ experience in strategic planning, goal setting and cultural development. Her ECC experiences are diversified between urban and rural, large and small, primary and secondary. She is currently the Co-Chair of the APCO Staffing Task Force and has served an Executive Board member of Colorado NENA-APCO, and as a leadership-focused presenter at national and state-level venues. Tina’s passion is the cultivation, preparation, and empowerment of new leaders, which is achieved through the practice of people-first, strengths-based, values-driven leadership. Her personal leadership philosophy is, “Be the Leader You Needed”: utilizing collective life experiences with positive and toxic leadership to serve as her compass as she works to clear a pathway for others to lead with authenticity and emotional intelligence.
The Aurora911 team receives nearly 600,000 calls annually, and serves the third largest city in Colorado, with a population of 400,000 and growing. Through Tina’s nurturing leadership, Aurora911 is actively transforming from chronically understaffed and disempowered into a full-strength, inclusive, award-winning team.