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National Engagement & Regional Administration

Steven Jones

Eastern Region Deputy Regional Administrator

Steven Jones currently serves as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Deputy Steven Jones Eastern Region Deputy Regional AdministratorRegional Administrator for the Eastern Region. He was appointed to the position in 2021 and had been leading management operations since 2016 as the Eastern Region Senior Advisor for the Office of the Regional Administrator. 

He joined the FAA in 1996 and has worked as a member of the agency’s Civil Rights Staff ensuring equal access to air transportation services in the U.S. Steve has held the roles of Acting Eastern Region Regional Administrator and Acting Deputy Regional Administrator in prior years.   

He developed a thorough understanding of the National Airspace System and the complex operations within the Eastern Region while progressively serving as the Acting Executive Operations Manager, the Executive Operations Supervisor, and the Building Services Team Lead. He was responsible for and successfully led the STEM Aviation and Space Education Program, noise responses, FOIA, and facility management services for the Eastern Region.  

In 2005, Steve joined the Eastern Region Logistics Division as a Contracting Specialist in Acquisitions after serving in the Accounting Division beginning in 2000. He managed contracts on the east and west coasts for up to $10 million in aerospace infrastructure and operational services.    

Steve completed his Associates of Science from Queensborough Community College in 1996. He earned his Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a major in Human Resources from Baruch College in 1999 and received his Master’s in Business Administration in 2004 from Keller Graduate School of Management. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Vaughn College of Aeronautics since 2005. 

Faviola “Favi” Garcia

Deputy Regional Administrator, Western-Pacific Region

The Western-Pacific Region encompasses four statesFavi Garcia, Deputy Administrator, Western Pacific Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada and three U.S. territories, which include Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Western-Pacific Region includes six of the nation's core airports; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco.

As the Deputy Regional Administrator, Faviola “Favi” Garcia, provides FAA leadership in cross-organizational matters, representing the FAA with elected officials, aviation industry stakeholders, and the public, in addition to regional oversight. She provides leadership and oversight for the daily operations and regional aviation activities to include FAA internal and external engagement. 

Prior to this role, Ms. Garcia served as the Supervisory Senior Advisor to the Western Pacific Regional Administrator.  In this capacity, she provided advice and counsel to the management team on a myriad of regional emerging and historical issues.  She oversaw the region’s community engagement activities, routinely building and fostering working relationships with congressional offices, federal, state and local elected officials, airport executives, aviation state directors, airlines and industry partners, and members of the community at large.  She has 36 years of federal experience working at the FAA in various organizations.  

Her career and experience in the Regional Administrator’s Office spans over 20 years where she held various positions and worked on numerous high profile programs for the region.  Her work experience involves many projects that cross-organizational boundaries where she has provided leadership and horizontal integration expertise.  Under the direction of the Regional Administrator, Ms. Garcia stood up various governance councils to include the Western Pacific Region Runway Safety Governance Council and the FAA/Los Angeles International Airport Construction Projects Governance Council.  Both of which are three tiered and include team members ranking from highly technical boots-on-ground to the Executive level. Her 36 years of FAA experience have been the catalyst to her success in building effective, collaborative, and successful teams from the ground up.  

Among her most notable work, Ms. Garcia managed the Micronesia Technical Assistance program for nearly eight years before an agency realignment.  Ms. Garcia built alliances with team members and established a robust communications plan that included FAA subject matter experts from various disciplines, as well as high-ranking international officials, consultants and contractors, airlines and industry partners, and established frequent and open lines of communications with team members of the three remote island nations that operated six international airports across numerous times zones.  

Ms. Garcia has been an active member of the National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees for over 25 years, where she served as National President from October 2017 through September 2019. 

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from California State University of Dominguez Hills and is the proud mother of three children, Alexia, Anthony and Julya, two of which are proud Air Traffic Controllers at the FAA.

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