Later in my career, I was promoted into leadership roles, serving as a Crisis Negotiation Team Commander and an Investigations Supervisor overseeing homicides, sexual assaults, abductions, and officer-involved incidents. Most recently, I served as an Investigations Commander at a large municipal police agency. Across thousands of interviews and some of the most complex cases a department can face, one lesson became unavoidable: effective policing—at every level—is fundamentally about effective, high-quality information gathering.

 

My academic background mirrors that belief. I earned a B.S. in Criminology from Kansas State University and an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from the University of North Dakota. Professionally, I am a National Institute of Justice LEADS Scholar, a Certified Red Team Practitioner, an Executive Fellow at the National Policing Institute, and a graduate of the DC Metro Police Leadership