54th Mile Policing Project - Steering Committee Meeting

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54th Mile Steering Committee

Dr. Cedric L. Alexander Psy.D. is a law enforcement expert with over 40 years of experience in public safety, currently serving as Commissioner of Community Safety at the City of Minneapolis. He has appeared on national media networks to provide comment on police-community relations and as a CNN, MSNBC, and Fox law enforcement analyst has written numerous editorials including “What’s the plan now, America?” “The Chauvin trail is holding a mirror up to America’s insufficient police training,” and “Capitol riot a stunning reminder of America’s policing crisis.”

Dr. Alexander has also served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and as an assistant professor at the University of Rochester Department of Psychiatry. He is a former National President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE). Dr. Alexander has lectured on police stress and burnout and currently trains on topics of management and leadership centered around 21st Century Policing. He is the author of The New Guardians: Policing in America's Communities for the 21st Century and In Defense of Public Service: How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save Our Republic.

Daryl V. Atkinson is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Forward Justice. At Forward Justice, Atkinson serves in several critical roles, including leading movement-building litigation, advancing public policies that address the needs of people with criminal records, and offering tremendous thought leadership through scholarship and public speaking on criminal justice, race, and democracy.

For example, Atkinson was the lead attorney in the seminal felony disenfranchisement case, Community Success Initiative v. Moore, that challenged North Carolina’s felony disenfranchisement regime. Atkinson and Forward Justice were the central advocates that ushered in the passage of the Second Chance Act, which expanded eligibility and access to criminal record clearance for people with records. Atkinson was an editor of “What We Know,” a compilation of innovative policy proposals developed by currently and formerly incarcerated people; a contributing author to “Parsimony and Other Radicals Ideas,” a compendium of articles on creating transformational change in the criminal legal system.

Prior to joining Forward Justice, Atkinson was the first Second Chance Fellow for the US Department of Justice (DOJ). At DOJ, Atkinson was an advisor to the Second Chance portfolio of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), a member of the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, and a conduit to the broader justice-involved population to ensure that BJA heard from all stakeholders when developing reentry policy. Most notably, in 2014, Atkinson was recognized by the White House as a “Reentry and Employment Champion of Change” for his extraordinary work to facilitate employment opportunities for people with criminal records.

Mr. Atkinson is a founding member of the North Carolina Second Chance Alliance and is on the Board of Directors for the Clean Slate Initiative. Atkinson has appeared in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, CBS, NowThis, and MSNBC. He received a BA in Political Science from Benedict College, Columbia, SC, and a JD from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN.

Michael Collins served as Chief of Staff and Floor Assistant to Congressman John Lewis for almost 20 years, directing the work of the Congressional staff in Washington and in Atlanta, managing long-term legislative plans, and acting as the primary liaison for constituents and various interest groups. Following the Congressman’s passing in 2020, Michael was tapped to serve as Special Assistant to President Biden and Director of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for Vice President Harris.

Kym Craven is the Executive Director of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives and the director of the Public Safety Strategies Group LLC. Ms. Craven began her 32-year career at the Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department working in several areas including traffic safety, community engagement, and grants management. During her career, Ms. Craven has provided assistance to over 350 municipalities and state agencies.

She specializes in facilitating and conducting organizational, vulnerability, and technology assessments; strategic planning; survey development; data analysis; staffing analysis; police district boundary assessments; grant writing and management, along with assisting agencies implement the recommendations from the 21st Century Policing Task Force Report. Ms. Craven has led projects on community policing, highway safety, homeland security, incident command systems, emergency response planning, and leadership training.

Recently, Ms. Craven has led police department organizational assessments, the development of the Youth Violence Reduction strategic plan, and provided assistance in performance management strategies to guide the development of the strategy’s dashboard. She led the development of the strategic plan for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) and oversaw the work of five data analysts working on Statnet projects in 30 police departments. Ms. Craven has also provided public safety management consulting services to the City and County of San Francisco Police Department, The City of Boston Police Department, the State of Vermont, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, the Las Cruces, New Mexico, Police Department, the Pierce County, Washington, Sheriff’s Department, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police, the State of Vermont, the Portsmouth and Hooksett, New Hampshire, Police Departments, the Town of Bridgton, Maine, the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, Harvard University and the Center for Campus Environmental Excellence (C2E2) for campus-related security services.

Ms. Craven has significant experience with developing strategies to combat crime and securing funding for such initiatives. Grants secured include community policing, multijurisdictional task force operation, gang reduction, juvenile justice delinquency prevention, substance abuse prevention, racial profiling data analysis, problem-solving partnerships, police technology acquisition, COPS Ahead, COPS More, Secure our Schools, School Resource Officer program development and hiring, Community Development Block Grants and other related programs.

Ms. Craven holds a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from the University of Lowell and a Master of Arts in criminal justice from Anna Maria College. Ms. Craven, a former police officer holds certificates in community policing, leadership facilitation, incident command, vulnerability assessments, emergency response planning, terrorism threat assessment, and numerous other criminal justice programs.

Ms. Craven is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the New England Chiefs of Police, and the International Association of Women in Policing.

Chief Kevin Davis led the Baltimore Police Department as its 39th Police Commissioner from 2015 to 2018 following a period of historic unrest and during the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights investigation. Davis negotiated a federal court-ordered consent decree with the DOJ during a Presidential transition of power.

He has substantial crisis leadership experience in a national spotlight while leading reform initiatives in mental/behavioral crisis response, use of force, training, and technology that received industry attention and accolades. Davis has built a reputation as a collaborative leader and consensus builder amongst diverse community groups, faith communities, elected officials, law enforcement peers, and business partners.

Prior to leading the nation’s 8th largest police department in Baltimore, Davis served as Police Chief for the Anne Arundel County (MD) Police Department and retired as the Assistant Police Chief for the Prince George’s County (MD) Police Department. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and FBI National Executive Institute. Davis served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Vice-Chair of the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, First Vice President of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, member of the Maryland Governor’s Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board, and member of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities, an independent body that hears complaints made against Maryland judges.

Recognized by the Maryland Daily Record as an Influential Marylander, Davis earned a master’s degree in management from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Towson University. He has been recognized by the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association with its Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service and is one of 18 alumni from DeMatha Catholic High School to ever receive its Distinguished Alumnus Award. A fourth-generation public safety servant, Davis was born and raised in College Park, home to Maryland’s flagship University. He was awarded the Key to the City of College Park.

During a stint in the corporate world, Davis served as GardaWorld’s Director of Security Consulting Services and Chief Security Officer for Armored Things in Boston. He was an adjunct professor at American University and lecturer at The Catholic University of America, both in Washington, DC.

Warrick Dunn is a former NFL running back and a three-time Pro Bowl selection. Dunn is well known for his philanthropic endeavors and success as a professional football player. Warrick started Homes for the Holidays in 1997 during his rookie year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The program is a tribute to his mother, Betty Smothers, a Baton Rouge police officer who as a single mother of six worked tirelessly to achieve the American dream of owning her own home. While working a second job as a security guard, she was killed in the line of duty and was never able to realize that dream.

Warrick Dunn Charities was founded in 2002, to improve lives through innovative programming inspired by Dunn’s life journey. To date, the program has rewarded over 204 single parents and over 549 dependents for achieving first-time homeownership nationwide.

Dunn’s football career began at Florida State University. In 1997, Dunn was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played for the Bucs for five years before signing with the Atlanta Falcons in 2002. Six seasons later, in 2008, he returned to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for his final season.

His 2008 autobiography, Running for My Life, details his life and battles with depression. As a public speaker and advocate, he often speaks about his battle with mental health and the importance of going to counseling. After a 12-year career, Dunn retired and in 2009 was approved by NFL owners to become a limited partner of the Atlanta Falcons. In 2013, Dunn graduated with his EMBA from Emory University and was selected to join the first class of NFL Legends.

In February 2020, Dunn launched his second nonprofit, WD Communities. WD Communities will support families from the beginning to the end of the purchase of affordable or transitional housing and provide support services, including Financial Literacy, Health & Wellness, Education Attainment, andEntrepreneurship & Workforce Development. The organization is committed to working with families over the course of several years.

Warrick serves on numerous boards and has made it his life's mission to impact future generations by helping fulfill his mother's dream and by continually giving back to the community and challenging others around him to do the same.

Dr. Bernice A. King is a global thought leader, orator, peace advocate, and Chief Executive Officer of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), which was founded by her mother, Coretta Scott King, in 1968. She was appointed CEO of The King Center in January 2012, by the Board of Trustees. From this position, the same one once held by her mother, this transformative leader steadfastly continues her efforts to advance her parents’ legacy of Kingian Nonviolence, which Dr. King re-branded Nonviolence365™️.

Ganesha Martin is a highly sought after expert on police reform. Martin's unique perspective stems from her experience working in local government, the Mayor’s Office, within police departments, and now monitoring other police departments around the country. She regularly speaks and trains on Department of Justice consent decrees, police reform and accountability, and public safety. She’s a member of the Council on Criminal Justice, an invite-only, nonpartisan organization and think tank for leaders in the criminal justice field.

In 2019 she was one of 40 community policing experts invited to Nairobi, Kenya to share community policing strategies during the Convening on Civilian Police Reform by Open Societies Foundation. She was also selected as Top 40 under 40 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Baltimore Community Mediation Center’s advocate of the year. Martin’s expert commentary has been featured in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, CNN, and the Washington Post among others.

Martin worked as Assistant Deputy Mayor where she oversaw six agencies, one of which was the police department. Shortly thereafter, she was asked to be the Chief of Staff to the Police Commissioner for two years. In the interim, she was the acting legislative director and before returning from Annapolis, she told the then police commissioner there needed to be a singular and strategic focus on how they engage their communities. Martin and the police commissioner created the Bureau of Community Engagement and the next day Freddie Gray died.

Ganesha Martin is now the chief of the Department of Justice Compliance and Accountability/External Affairs at the Baltimore Police Department.

Chief Celeste Murphy is a pioneering leader as the first woman Chief of Police for the Chattanooga (TN) Police Department. Taking office on April 8, 2022, Chief Murphy has already made remarkable strides in reducing crime rates with an impressive 11% decrease in violent crime and an 8% reduction in property crime in just her first year.

Her distinguished career in law enforcement began in 1997 when she joined the Atlanta (GA) Police Department. Throughout her tenure, she has showcased her versatility, having served at every rank and expertly overseeing various critical divisions. Notably, she achieved a historic milestone by commanding two police precincts consecutively as a Major and commanding four department divisions consecutively as a Deputy Chief, exemplifying her exceptional leadership skills. As Deputy Chief, Chief Murphy's influence expanded across Strategy and Special Projects, where she supervised technology and capital projects. She also managed Field Operations, overseeing police precincts, property crime investigations, gun violence enforcement, and the body-worn camera audit unit. Her contributions extended to the Community Services Division, where she directed six key sections, including Community-Oriented Policing and Violent Crime Interdiction and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Chief Murphy's unwavering dedication to her profession and community is matched by her academic achievements. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Syracuse University and a Master of Science degree in criminal justice from Saint Leo University. Her commitment to continuous learning is evident in her graduation from prestigious institutions such as the Police Executives Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police, Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command, and the Atlanta Police Leadership Institute.

Beyond her impressive credentials, Chief Murphy is an active member of several influential law enforcement organizations, including PERF, IACP, NOBLE, and TACP, where she contributes to shaping policies and promoting best practices within the field.

As a New York City native and proud mother of four children, Chief Celeste Murphy embodies leadership, dedication, and a passion for serving her community.

Kathleen O’Toole is a partner at 21CP Solutions. She is an attorney and career police officer who served as Chief of Police for the Seattle (WA) Police Department, Commissioner of the Boston (MA) Police Department, and Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety. She also served as Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána, the Irish national police service.

Constance ‘Connie’ Rice

is a civil rights lawyer and author whose coalition cases have won over $10 billion in damages and policy changes that include the largest settlement in civil rights history. California LawBusiness ranked her as one of California’s Top Ten Lawyers. In 2006, Rice led partners that ranged from police to gang interventionists to launch the nation’s most successful gang and community violence reduction system.

Sean Smoot is Managing Partner at 21CP Solutions, LLC. Smoot provides consulting services to several state and local law enforcement agencies as well as private companies. He is a member of the Baltimore (MD) and Cleveland (OH) Police Departments' consent decree monitoring teams and also serves as director of the Police Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois and the Police Benevolent Labor Committee.

Smoot holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice sciences from Illinois State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he served as business editor of the SIU Law Journal. Smoot was a member of the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government from 2008 to 2014. Smoot also served as a police and public safety policy advisor to the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Teams. President Obama later appointed him to the Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

Leodis Strong is a visionary, progressive-thinking, mission-focused Christian Minister with extensive bi-vocational experience, having served as an influential Pastor of high-profile churches and as a Supervisory Clinical Chaplain within the Veterans Affairs Department of the Veterans Health Administration.

Called to Ministry in 1969 when he was an eighteen-year-old sophomore at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Leodis has gone on to serve as Pastor of Churches with memberships ranging in size from ten persons to eight hundred in multiple states from Arkansas, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Alabama.

In addition to serving as a Pastor, Leodis also served in Oklahoma and North Carolina as a Clinical Staff Chaplain and Acting Chief of Chaplains in Oklahoma from 1991 until 2006 and then as Chief of Chaplains (Supervisory Chaplain) in North Carolina from 2006 until his retirement 1n 2010 from the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers of the Veterans Health Administration.

While serving as a Clinical Chaplain, Leodis was recognized for his work with the American Red Cross during the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, received an “Outstanding Rating Certificate” from the Department of Veterans Affairs was recognized as Chaplain of the Month by the National Chaplains Center and received numerous other awards and recognitions for his leadership and provision of services to Veterans and their families and Medical Center Staff.

Leodis has been recognized as a robust, principled, and mission-focused servant-leader within the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the larger Faith community. He was unanimously elected to a four-year term as President of the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Chaplains Association in 2004, elected as a member of the General Board of the AME Church from 1984-to the present, member of the Executive Committee, the Commission of Statistics and Finance, the Commission on Retirement Services of the General Board and also served in other leadership roles.

In 1990, because of the leadership he was providing to his community at large, he was elected by his community as a member of the Board of Education of the Millwood Independent School District #37 and, subsequently, was elected as President and received the President’s Service Award for “distinguished service and leadership.” He was a founding member and Vice-President of the One Church, One Child Ministerial Advisory Board of Oklahoma, an ecumenical group of pastors whose mission is to provide foster and adoptive homes and families for African American children who are wards of the state of Oklahoma and was instrumental in helping the organization to seek and receive multi-year grants of $300,000 to fund its efforts. In 1995-96, Leodis served as a member of the state-wide Advisory Committee, appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma to study and make recommendations to the Governor and state legislature for Welfare reform for the state. They were recognized by the state of Oklahoma for “outstanding service in Oklahoma’s Block Grant Reform Process.” President Bill Clinton invited him to the White House for a reception where he and other community leaders from across the country were recognized for their service and leadership.

Co-Founders of the 54th Mile Policing Project

Assistant Chief Tarrick McGuire, a native of Dallas, TX, began a career in public service with the Arlington (TX) Police Department in 2003. During his tenure, he has served in multiple positions before being appointed Assistant Police Chief in 2022. As a nationally recognized public speaker and published author, Chief McGuire has been a leading authority on community-police relations, police pattern and practice, evidence-based policing, police reform, and public policy.

In 2020, he was appointed to the Council on Policing Reforms and Race by the National Policing Institute, and in 2022, he was inducted into the Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame.

During his career, Chief McGuire has been at the forefront of developing innovative strategies and leading national change in community-police relations impacting lives globally. In 2015, he developed and piloted a community engagement model in his local community to build relationships between youth and the police. The Mentoring Arlington Youth model reduced racial disparities in arrests and school discipline and is a national model to build public trust. In 2016, Chief McGuire served as a law enforcement fellow with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) contributing to research and technical assistance to US police departments on 21^st Century Policing. During this period, Chief McGuire worked with the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Obama Administration to improve policing practices, policy, and community-police relations nationally.

As a pracademic and change agent in policing, Chief McGuire was recognized by the IACP as one of the top 40 under 40 most progressive police leaders in the world. Although he has received many accolades, he is most proud of the Anthony L. Sutin Department of Justice COPS Office Award for his work in community-police relations and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Governmental Leadership.

Chief McGuire has earned a B.S. in Speech Communications from Oklahoma State University, an MA in Christian Leadership from Criswell College, and a Doctor of Public Administration from California Baptist University.

Chief Shon F. Barnes was appointed as the Madison (WI) Police Department's 30^thChief of Police by the Police and Fire Commission (PFC) in December 2020. Chief Barnes is a nationally recognized leader in crime reduction and community-police relations. He was previously the Director of Training and Professional Development for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability in Chicago, Illinois. Chief Barnes was the Deputy Chief of Police in Salisbury, North Carolina (2017-2020) and a Captain with the Greensboro (NC) Police Department where he began his career as a patrol officer in the fall of 2000.

Chief Barnes was honored as a National Institute of Justice LEADS (Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science) Scholar for using innovative technology to reduce crime and is a council member of the National Police Institute’s Council on Policing Reforms and Race. The council is a nonpartisan initiative that uses research and evidence to offer recommendations to resolve some of the most pressing issues regarding police reform. Throughout his career Chief Barnes has implemented Neighborhood-Oriented Policing which focuses on smaller police beat response, police neighborhood ownership, and community engagement at all levels within the organization.

Chief Barnes attended Elizabeth City (NC) State University where he received a BA in history/pre-law and the University of Cincinnati (OH) where he received an MS in criminal justice. He has earned a Ph.D. in leadership studies from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, North Carolina).

Chief Barnes’ philosophy as it relates to policing simply states, "Policing should be neighborhood-oriented, community-focused (business and residential), problem-oriented, and based on the most current empirical research available to quickly reduce crime and improve citizens' satisfaction with police services."

Dr. Obed Magny is the Founder and CEO of Magny Leadership, a management consulting company. Dr. Obed Magny is a former police officer of the Sacramento (CA) Police Department with nearly two decades of experience. He’s worked in various capacities including on Patrol, as a School Resource Officer, serving on the Union Board, and within the Professional Standards Unit.

Dr. Magny is a co-founding member of the 54th Mile Policing Project and a co-founder and executive board member of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing (ASEBP). He is a former National Institute of Justice LEADS (Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science) Scholar. He is a Policing Fellow with the National Policing Institute, where he currently serves as the chairman of the Personnel and Staffing Working Group. Dr. Magny also contributed to the National Policing Institute’s Council Report on Policing Reforms and Race.

In addition to being a consultant, Dr. Magny is an executive coach, leadership speaker, and public policy advisor. Dr. Magny’s expertise includes motivation, job satisfaction, diversity, trauma, race and community-police relations, and emotional intelligence.

Dr. Magny has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston; a master's degree in emergency services administration from California State University, Long Beach; and a Doctorate of Education in organizational leadership from the University of La Verne (CA).

National Policing Institute Staff

Robin S. Engel (Senior Vice President), Ph.D., a nationally known and highly respected criminologist, has served as a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Director of the Center for Police Research and Policy.

From 2015 to 2019, she served as UC’s Vice President for Safety and Reform, where her administrative duties included oversight of daily operations and implementation of comprehensive police reforms in the aftermath of a critical incident involving the fatal police shooting of an unarmed motorist.

For more than two decades, Dr. Engel has worked to engage in policing research designed to reduce harm in communities and make police-citizen encounters safer, promoting best practices through academic-practitioner partnerships. She has served as Principal Investigator for over ninety studies and projects and was ranked among the top academics in the field of criminal justice/criminology based on publications in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Engel currently serves as a governor-appointed member of the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board, co-chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Research Advisory Committee, and member of the National Policing Institute’s Council on Policing Reforms and Race. Dr. Engel currently leads research teams implementing and evaluating violence reduction, police training, and police reform initiatives across dozens of cities, along with a large-scale evaluation of state-mandated police reforms.

Laura Wyckoff (Senior Director), Ph.D., is the Senior Director for Knowledge, Learning, and Translation at the National Policing Institute. In this position, she identifies, harvests, and translates research into practical information for stakeholders, working to improve the field through targeted technical assistance and training.

Prior to this role, Dr. Wyckoff was the Chief of Staff at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), where she worked closely with all PERF staff, leading key projects and identifying and disseminating best practices in policing. Dr. Wyckoff also served as a Senior Performance Management Analyst at the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). In this position, she oversaw all aspects of BJA’s Planning, Performance, and Impact (PPI) Team. The PPI team was responsible for assisting with program development, developing performance measures, analyzing performance data, and producing performance reports and products for use by internal and external BJA audiences. In addition to these responsibilities, Dr. Wyckoff provided her expertise in program implementation and the application of evidence-based practices to enhance BJA’s programs.

Before joining BJA, Dr. Wyckoff served as a Senior Faculty Researcher at the University of Maryland and as a Science Advisor to the Police Foundation. In these roles, Dr. Wyckoff focused on performing training, technical assistance, action research, process evaluations, and outcome evaluations within policing, juvenile justice, and prosecution.

Dr. Wyckoff specializes in the application of evidence-based practices across the field of criminal justice, crime analysis, crime-at-place, research methods, and program measurement. Dr. Wyckoff completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland at College Park, performing research in the realms of police practice and place-based criminology.

Hannah D. McManus (Director), Ph.D., joined the National Policing Institute as a Senior Research Associate in September 2022 and was promoted to Director in July 2023. Prior to joining NPI, she worked for five years as a Research Associate at the University of Cincinnati Center for Police Research and Policy. Dr. McManus participates in research and evaluation in the criminal justice field, specifically focusing on police practice.

Her current work includes research on the development and implementation of training for police, best practices in crisis response, and examining community-police relations.

An advocate for academic-practitioner partnerships to promote evidence-informed and best practices, Dr. McManus has worked directly with law enforcement agencies nationwide. She currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator on multiple federally awarded grants and has published in both peer-reviewed and practitioner-focused outlets, earning several awards for those publications.

Dominique Burton (Project Associate)

is a Project Associate at the National Policing Institute, supporting many locally focused law enforcement projects. She has experience in criminal justice-related policy development and administration, intergovernmental relations, and community engagement.

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Dominique has previously worked for the International Association of Chiefs of Police and CAN, providing extensive analytical and technical support to criminal justice research and projects at the local, state, and federal levels. Her work centers around engaging and promoting best practices through research and training opportunities for law enforcement professionals, enabling them to continue to enhance their organizational, public safety, crime reduction, and community policing effectiveness.

Dominique has a bachelor’s degree from the SUNY College at Brockport in Criminal Justice and a minor in Forensic Science. She is also fluent in Spanish.

Andrea M. Headley (Visiting Scholar), Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She also holds an appointment as a Visiting Scholar of Race, Policing, and Crime at the National Policing Institute. She is a scholar of public management, racial equity, and criminal justice policy. At the heart of research lies the question of how can we create a more effective and equitable criminal justice system?

Headley’s research focuses on policing to understand how organizational, managerial, and individual-level factors affect service delivery and outcomes, with a keen focus on inequities and disparities. Specific examples of her past work include improving police-community relations in communities of color, assessing the effect of race during use of force encounters, evaluating body-worn cameras, understanding national police reform commissions, analyzing dispositional outcomes in citizen complaints, and exploring the gendered norms and cultures in policing.

Her research has been published in journals including the Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, and the Journal of Criminal Justice and funded by the Department of Justice, National Science Foundation, and, most recently, the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center. Headley enjoys working directly with public sector organizations to conduct both applied and engaged research to improve service delivery and racial equity.

Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs Staff

Cornelia Sigworth currently serves as Director Moore’s Senior Advisor. In her most recent role, she served as the Associate Deputy Director for Law Enforcement and Crime Reduction with the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. In this capacity, Ms. Sigworth directs BJA’s law enforcement and crime reduction work including its partnerships with local, state, and national policymakers and their efforts to combat violent crime, enhance prosecution practices, improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system, and improve business processes.

Ms. Sigworth previously served in a variety of capacities within BJA including as the Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Deputy Director for Policy and Director of the Violence Reduction Network. Ms. Sigworth began her career with The Department at the National Institute of Justice, where she managed national research, evaluation, and program development.

Ms. Sigworth holds a B.S. in Criminology from Northern Arizona University and a M.S. in Justice, Law, and Society from American University. She is a graduate of the Department of Justice’s Leadership Excellence and Achievement Program and the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellows Program. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the FBI National Academy /National Executive Institute and the University of Chicago’s Police Leadership Academy. Among other honors, she is a recipient of the US Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and Northern Arizona University’s Criminology Alumni of the Year Award.

Juliana Palmer currently serves as a Policy Advisor with the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Law Enforcement Innovation and Crime Reduction Division where she oversees projects including the Rural Crime Reduction Initiative and the National ERPO Resource Center. Previously, she served as an Assistant Director at the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services where she oversaw Maryland’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative and supported the Criminal Justice Programs division.

Before that, Juliana worked at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, managing several BJA-funded projects, and providing training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies throughout the country on topics ranging from officer safety and wellness, suicide prevention, and community trust. Juliana has also worked at a Maryland Circuit Court, where she provided oversight to all state and federal grant-funded programs, including a family drug treatment court and programs to support pro-se litigants. Juliana received her Master of Science in Justice, Law, and Criminology from American University’s School of Public Affairs, and her Bachelor of Arts from Salisbury University.

Linda A. Seabrook began her legal career as an Assistant Solicitor (prosecutor) in her hometown of Charleston, SC in order to ensure Black women and girls could access justice, too. During her tenure as a prosecutor, Linda founded the Charleston County Domestic Violence Community Coalition, which provided increased referrals to community resources and assistance for all involved in family violence incidents.

In 2009, Linda first came to the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a subject matter expert on victims' rights, assisting the U.S. Attorneys' offices and DOJ components with victims' rights compliance and enforcement efforts. Linda left DOJ to become the first General Counsel for the national nonprofit Futures Without Violence, where, in addition to her general counsel duties, she established a robust economic justice program focusing on low wage working women who were survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and was one of the primary advisors on the intersection of race and gender in criminal justice reform efforts for the Vision for Justice Policy Platform. In January of 2022, she was appointed Senior Counsel, Racial Justice & Equity, to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) at DOJ to facilitate compliance with the letter and spirit of Executive Order 13985 which seeks to advance racial equity and expand access to and opportunities for funding and programming for historically marginalized and underserved communities. Linda’s efforts include outreach to and engagement with historically marginalized and underserved communities to facilitate local partnerships in public safety solutions. Linda received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

54th Mile Policing Project - Steering Committee Meeting

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