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Anne Munch is an attorney with twenty two years of experience as a career prosecutor and advocate for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. As a subject matter expert for the United States Air Force, the United States Army and the United States Navy, Anne has worked extensively on the development of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response programs in the military.
Ms. Munch attended the University of Denver for her undergraduate and graduate studies and received a BA in psychology and sociology, and then her law degree.
Following law school Ms. Munch spent seven years as a prosecutor for the Denver District Attorney’s office including a rotation in the felony domestic violence and sexual assault unit. She also spent two years as the Chief Deputy District Attorney for the 7th Judicial District in Telluride, Colorado, and two years as the supervisor of the fast track domestic violence unit in the Jefferson County DA’s office in Golden, Colorado.
In addition to her work as a prosecutor, Ms. Munch was the director of the San Miguel Resource Center, a domestic violence and sexual assault program the Telluride, Colorado. She also directed the Ending Violence Against Women Project, a statewide multi-disciplinary training and technical assistance project in Colorado for nine years.
Currently, Ms. Munch is the owner of Anne Munch Consulting, Inc. and works full time providing speaking, training and consulting in the area of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. She provides her services to local, national and military organizations all across the United States, Europe, and also in Asia. She is on the teaching faculty for the National Judicial Education Program and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Mr. McNall graduated from the University of Dayton and the Detroit Police Academy in 1968 initiating a 38-year career in Field Service, Management, Training and Consulting in Law Enforcement. His experience includes management of a major police academy, nationally recognized consultant and trainer in the areas of School Violence, Critical Incident Management, Interviewing, Project Planning and Problem Solving. He currently serves as the President of BowMac Educational Services, Inc. and BOWMAC Software, Inc. MH&A collaborates with BowMac in the design and delivery of custom critical incident and emergency management training programs for our clients. BOWMAC has extensive experience training and preparing K-12 school districts in emergency response and recovery in accordance with the National Incident Management System.
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Before joining Margolis Healy as the Vice President for Operations & Business Development in 2011, Jonathan served as Executive Director of Security On Campus, Inc. (SOC) - the leading nonprofit voice in America for safer campus communities for students for over two decades – since 2007. Mr. Kassa has played a crucial role in the strategy, development, and delivery of a broad array of national policies, initiatives, and innovative community-based programs that serve education, justice, and social services sectors. Starting as a college intern in 1993 and rising to youngest Senior Supervisor at age 23, Jonathan soon became Director of Development, then a Senior Executive and Regional Director of Maryland and Delaware. Kassa was integral in expanding the entrepreneurial Youth Services Agency from a single-county agency to a multi-state nonprofit organization serving tens of thousands of families and youth each year, helping to increase services-based revenue of less than one million dollars per year to 24 million dollars per year during his thirteen year tenure. Jonathan has earned a reputation for facilitating effective public-private partnerships and cross-systems collaboration, especially between nonprofit networks, Federal, State, and Local systems. Jonathan was the recipient of the 2004 Dare to Soar Award from the Cecil County, Maryland Local Management Board; honoring “dedication and vision” toward improving the lives of youth and families in the region.
His experience includes various presentations at conferences nationally, inclusion in the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement subcommittee on campus law enforcement and public safety standards, and he is an often-quoted expert by the media, appearing in countless articles nationally and locally (USA Today, U.S. News, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, etc.); as well as national and regional television and radio interviews (NPR, CBS, Good Morning America, Fox News Channel, etc.). While at SOC, Kassa helped to transform the organization and realign resources towards meeting the dynamic challenges and opportunities of a nonprofit organization in transition during economic crisis, while remaining in touch with the organization’s history and mission. Kassa helped guide significant policy and legislative initiatives, in particular SOC’s stewardship of the comprehensive federal compliance law known as the Jeanne Clery Act and participation in the U.S. Department of Education’s 2008 Negotiated Rulemaking sessions. By diversifying the donor base and developing funding streams with new mission-related services, expertise, tools, and increased federal and state support; he directed significant growth in education and outreach programs that have reached over 50,000 high school students, overseen multiple national training seminars each year, and revitalized essential victim advocacy and technical assistance services.
Mr. Kassa is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University (B.A., History) and has a Masters in Public Administration (Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society) from Villanova University. Jonathan resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two young children.
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Throughout his distinguished thirty year policing career Tom Tremblay has been a passionate leader for the prevention of sexual violence. He is a national trainer and advisor promoting improved victim services; multi-disciplinary response and investigations; greater offender accountability; and the importance of leadership, policy and training to help end violence against women crimes.
Tom Tremblay is a faculty member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women and is an associate for Margolis Healy & Associates. In 2008 Tom was appointed by Vermont Governor James Douglas to serve a three year term as Public Safety Commissioner for the State of Vermont. Tom was Chief of Police for five years in the city of Burlington, Vermont prior to his appointment as Commissioner.
Tom served for over twenty-four years in the Burlington Police Department. In 1986 he was selected as the first director of the department’s Sexual Assault Investigation Unit. Tom helped develop the multi-disciplinary team and earned the reputation as a collaborative, compassionate and relentless investigator. The success of the Burlington unit helped pave the way for a county-wide unit which has been recognized nationally and is now a statewide model for the response to crimes of sexual violence and child sexual abuse. As Commissioner of Public Safety for Vermont, Tom helped lead the effort to improve Vermont’s response to sexual violence which included the creation of Special Investigation Units for every region of the state.
Tom holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice. He is a graduate of the 183rd Session of the FBI National Academy, the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, the Police Executive Research Forum – Senior Management Institute for Police, and the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women.
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Mike has been in his present position as the Director of Campus Safety at McDaniel College (founded as Western Maryland College) located in suburban Baltimore (Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland) since 1991. Prior to that Mike worked as the Assistant Director of Public Safety at Emerson College (1986 to 1991), and as the Operations Manager, Campus Police Sergeant at Wentworth Institute of Technology (1983 to 1986) both of which are in Boston, Massachusetts. Each of these agencies was a broadly missioned public safety agency with multiple roles including uniformed sworn law enforcement and non-sworn security, emergency medical services, fire prevention, community education, crime prevention and physical security technology to name but a few. These private campuses were: urban and suburban, liberal arts, and specialized, largely commuter and residential, and four year undergraduate and master’s degree granting, and armed and unarmed.
Mike has completed major course work in Fire Safety Engineering at Bunker Hill Community College, been granted a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University, and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development from McDaniel College where his graduate research focused on two problems plaguing campus law enforcement agencies… recruitment and retention, and morale and motivation. Rounding out experience in all facets of public safety, Mike was certified as an emergency medical technician in 1982 and as a paramedic in 1996, and served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve as a Port Securityman from 1988 to 1991 and held multiple qualifications.
Mike serves as an adjunct lecturer at McDaniel College in the Sociology Department where he authored and teaches “Practical Applications in Law Enforcement”. He enjoys teaching in a variety of capacities and has served as a presenter at numerous conferences for a several professional organizations and state criminal justice training authorities. For many years he has served as the Government Relations Chair for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). In this role Mike has participated in Negotiated Rulemaking with the United States Department of Education for the Clery Act, and most recently the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. Mike also served as a content reviewer for the Campus Crime Reporting Handbook, published by the US Dep’t. of Ed. to facilitate compliance with the Clery Act requirements.
Mike has continuously been a Certified Protection Professional by the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International since 1987 (a designation held by only approximately 5200 practitioners worldwide), a member of the IACLEA since 1984, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) since 2004, and the Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators – Chesapeake Region since 1991 (holding executive officer posts from 1996 to 1999). Attending multiple professional development courses from varied government sources including the US Departments of Justice, Education, Homeland Security and State, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a broad array of professional associations and private groups Mike has ensured a comprehensive program of personal professional growth in a variety of areas.
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Geoff Bartlett is the manager of technical services for the Tufts University Department of Public & Environmental Safety where he is responsible for the overall application of security technology on campus. Prior to Tufts, Geoff was with the US Department of Health & Human Services and the US Department of Homeland Security where he was a telecommunications specialist for the National Disaster Medical System.
He is an expert in Physical Access Control Systems (core features of widely deployed electronic access systems and stand-alone access products; currently developing strategic approach to implementation of advanced mutually-authenticated, contactless, and virtual network credential technologies); Alarm Systems (deployment of cutting-edge UL and FMS approved technology for IP-based alarm transmission); Emergency Notification (in-depth knowledge of associated technologies, principal in development of policies and procedures); and Information Technology (Windows and OS X, network security, information assurance and security, Microsoft SQL Server).
He has been the project manager for the implementation of Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) where he designed and managed multi-year, phased implementation of residence hall access control and perimeter security monitoring system in 40 buildings and nearly 300 portals; researched, specified and implemented a stand-alone room card access system, eliminating use of mechanical keys and lock changes in installed buildings; included integration of back-end database with existing enterprise PACS; and collaborated with architects and construction manager to design Select Agent access controls for the New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory, one of fourteen National Institutes of Health-funded biocontainment labs across the nation.
He implemented a cutting-edge UL-listed and Factory Mutual-approved alarm signaling infrastructure using IP data connections instead of telephone or dedicated circuits for high rate supervision and near-instantaneous signal transmission. In 2003, he transitioned from a proprietary DOS-based alarm monitoring product to a Windows-based modern alarm automation database with a SQL backend, including data collection and manual entry of individual alarm systems. He managed a team project to implement a full-featured, modern alarm automation database with warm-standby redundant server, including migration of existing automation system data. He developed binary condition interface between PACS and alarm system to communicate priority conditions, enabling cost-effective and highly flexible perimeter monitoring system adaptable to anti-prop or intrusion-detection configurations. He deployed various target location focused video monitoring and surveillance using combinations of analog, megapixel and network video technology with third-party, non-proprietary integration software.
Geoff has managed team selection process for new computerized Records Management System and Computer Aided Dispatch. Implemented selected system featuring hosted database, mobile data terminals, state interface, NIBRS crime reporting, and Clery-aware geocoding of all university sites. He successfully integrated security measures for assurance and protection of sensitive data and mission-critical PACS, alarm and CAD/RMS systems. Geoff has developed Extract, Transform and Load routines for daily import of identity management feeds from systems of record to PACS and identity-badging system; includes 24 hour resolution of terminations for prompt cancellation of PACS privileges.
In the area of emergency management, Geoff has developed and executed multi-agency exercise for active shooter response. Led the team that completed development of university’s 2008 Emergency Operations Plan; conducted training and rollout to key administrators. Led the team that manages the ongoing use, policy development, marketing and testing of campus emergency alert system. Participated in avian influenza planning since 2006; key participant in university’s response to 2009 Novel H1N1 Pandemic Influenza.
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Aaron Graves has served in the field of law enforcement and security for 38 years. He is the former Associate Vice President of Campus Safety and Security for Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. At Duke, he led nearly two hundred sworn, proprietary security and contract security officers who were responsible for law enforcement and physical security for Duke University, Duke Medical Center and the Duke University Health System. During his tenure he was instrumental in enhancing police community relations within the campus community as well as fostering collaborative efforts with local law enforcement. His expertise in emergency planning and management was vital in the continued development of plans and training exercises for the university community. Aaron resigned from his position in June of 2010 to pursue other interests in campus public safety. This assignment was one of several key leadership positions he has held in campus public safety during the past 18 years after retiring as a Captain from the United States Air Force Security Police.
Prior to serving at Duke, Aaron was the Executive Director/Chief of Public Safety for the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles which is one of the largest university public safety organizations in the nation. During his three year tenure at USC, crime impacting the university community was reduced by 26% through strategic initiatives and community support. He led major upgrades in technology, staffing and facilities to enhance the overall professionalism of the organization. This greater sense of professionalism was a key factor in improving the relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department and their overall support to the university community.
He also led the Southern Methodist University Police Department as Chief of Police/Director of Parking for ten years in Dallas, Texas. There he gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in managing operations for dignitary protection. He oversaw campus visits of current and former United States Presidents, Royalty and other foreign heads of state.
Aaron served in various capacities in professional organizations representing the law enforcement community. Most recently, he served as a Commissioner for the International Association for Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Accreditation Program and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration.
He has held membership in the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE). He has made numerous professional presentations including sessions at IACLEA and NOBLE on timely topics related to crisis management, leadership/supervision and crime control.
Aaron holds a Master of Liberal Arts from Texas Christian University and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from North Carolina Wesleyan College.
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William M. (Bill) Elvey, P.E. has over 33 years of experience in the area of Facilities Management including the last 13 years in higher education. Bill is also a Past-President of APPA – Leadership in Educational Facilities – www.appa.org. Bill recently participated as APPA’s representative on the NACUBO-sponsored National Campus Safety and Security (NCSS) Project. His involvement with this project over a two year period constituted completion of a research project for APPA’s Center for Facilities Research (CFaR). He is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Bachelors and Masters in Environmental Engineering. Bill also has a Masters of Business Administration from George Mason University. Bill is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. Bill retired in 1997 after 20 years with the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps. During his career he worked in Public Works, Seabees, Construction Contract Administration, Personnel Management, and Planning, Programming, Budget and Finance. In September of 1997, after a short stint in the private sector, Bill became the Director of Physical Plant at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. In 2003, Bill became the Assistant Vice President for Facilities where he was responsible for managing a workforce of over 600 personnel, an operating budget of over $98 million, and facilities management functions including: Physical Plant, Capital Design and Construction ($361 million of authorized projects), Utilities, Contracts and Campus Renovations, and The Office of Transportation for the Blacksburg campus and 14 agricultural research stations located throughout the Commonwealth. At the time Virginia Tech had an enrollment of over 28,000 students in 8 colleges and is comprised of over 370 buildings containing nearly 8.9 million square feet of space on 2,600 acres on the central campus area. Bill has been the Director for Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction, and Planning at The University of Texas at Dallas since October 2007. The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor®, enrolls about 16,000 students. The vision of UT Dallas is to be one of the nation’s best public research universities and one of the great universities of the world.
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Jeff Pollard received his Ph.D. from The University of Virginia, completing his Clinical Psychology Residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He worked as a staff psychologist at Villanova University before becoming Director of Health & Counseling Services at Denison University where he served for 22 years. He then went to the University of West Florida as Director of Counseling & Health Services and Professor of Psychology. He came to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia during the summer of 2006 as Executive Director of Counseling and Psychological Services. He is a Professor in Mason’s Department of Psychology and a founding member of Mason’s Threat Assessment Team.
Jeff is Past-President of the American Board of Counseling Psychology and is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He is a long-time leader in college mental health and has been involved and published in the areas of campus violence, mandated assessment, and treatment for over twenty years. He is also a strong advocate for mental health services and needs on campus and has been a resource to many institutions in the Virginia area as they have developed their threat assessment teams. He is a member of the DC Metro chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and the National Capital Area Regional Threat Group.
Higher Ed. mental health has been Jeff’s chosen profession for over 30 years. He enjoys teaching and supervising counselors and therapists in-training and is a nationally recognized consultant for campus threat assessment.
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Dr. Stacey A. Miller has over 15 years of professional experience in student affairs and higher education as both an administrator and instructor. Dr. Miller currently serves as the Director of Residential Life at the University of Vermont a position she has held since 2003. She began her professional career at Stony Brook University, New York, where she also earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degrees. She received her Doctorate of Education in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program from the University of Vermont. In addition to her administrative post Dr. Miller is as an adjunct lecturer for graduate-level courses in cultural pluralism and religious, spirituality and education.
Over the course of her career she has facilitated countless training sessions focused multicultural/intercultural competence and student development; Dr. Miller has presented at a various conferences and institutions nationally on a variety of topics related to diversity, social justice education, and intercultural communication. She is also a successful participant of the nationally renowned Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI) and is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), which have helped to further her knowledge and understanding of diversity, social justice education, multicultural competence, and intercultural communication. Dr. Miller has provided service to the UVM community via her leadership as an original member of the President’s Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Equity, and currently serves as the Chair for the President’s Commission on Racial Diversity.
Dr. Miller has been recognized at the University of Vermont on several occasions with the Police Services Civilian Service Award, the Women’s Center Outstanding Staff Woman Award, and the HESA Program, Jackie Gribbons Practicum Advisor of the Year Award. She is also a member of the Golden Key, National Scholars, and Pi Gamma Mu National Honor Societies. Dr. Miller is also the President and Managing Partner for the Consortium for Inclusion and Equity (CIE) a consulting firm committed to helping businesses and educational institutions gain the necessary knowledge and skills needed to become more inter-culturally and multiculturally competent.
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Paul Allena has over twenty years of management experience in Security, Safety, and Emergency Management. Paul has held significant management positions in higher education, health care and corporate organizations. He is a career oriented and results driven professional with proven expertise and success in all areas of management. He has been effective in designing, implementing and monitoring security and safety programs. He has conducted risk assessments that have resulted in the reduction of exposure to organizations, and designed and installed CCTV and Access Control Systems. Paul has been a presenter for safety and security awareness programs to various organizations.
Paul recognizes and values the participation in volunteer leadership positions of professional organizations. He has served for over ten years as a volunteer leader at numerous levels of ASIS-International and most recently served as a Senior Regional Vice-President. He was recognized by ASIS-International as Regional Vice-President of the Year in 2004. He is also a 30 year Life Member and former chief of the Somerville Rescue Squad, an 80 member volunteer Emergency Medical Service and Rescue agency.
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Lee Struble is currently the Director of Public Safety at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York which enrolls over 36,000 students each year. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degreee in history from Maryville College he attended the National Crime Prevention Institute in Louisville, KY (1988) and the College Business Management Institute in Lexington, KY in 1991, 1993 and 1994.
Prior to joining MCC in 2006, Lee was the Director of Campus Safety at Nazareth College, NY from 1996-2006. Lee also worked for the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY Department of Campus Safety in a variety of supervisory and administrative roles; Security Supervisor (1982-1985), Loss Prevention Specialist (1985-1990) and Associate Director of Campus Safety (1990-1995).
Lee served on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association (NECUSA) for six years and became the association’s first two-term President in 2003-2005. Lee is currently serving as the Chair of the IACLEA Crime Prevention Committee, winning the IACLEA’s President’s Award in 2007 for his work in creating a comprehensive campus crime prevention website.
Lee has provided comprehensive security assessments to campus safety and law enforcment departments throughout the United States. He has published six articles in the Campus Law Enforcement Journal and is a frequent presenter at international conferences on the topics of crime prevention, emergency prepardeness, civility and leadership.
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Elliot Bloom served as Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer for Travelport Ltd. from May 2006 through December 2008. While at Travelport, he was responsible for corporate communications, corporate branding, digital media, media relations, crisis management, financial public relations, M&A communications, and employee communications.
Travelport is one of the world’s largest travel conglomerates. The company operates three primary businesses –Travelport GDS, a global distribution system business; an IT services and software business; and GTA, a group travel and wholesale hotel business. Travelport GDS comprises the Galileo and Worldspan brands and includes Business Intelligence Services, a data analysis business. The IT services and software business hosts mission critical applications and provides business solutions for major airlines. Travelport also owns approximately 48% of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), a leading global online travel company. With on-going annual revenues of approximately $2.7 billion, Travelport operates in 145 countries and has approximately 6,000 employees.
Prior to Travelport, Elliot served as senior vice president of corporate communications for leading travel and real estate conglomerate, Cendant Corporation, from the company’s inception in December, 1997 until its breakup in August, 2006. Cendant, with annual revenues of $19 billion and 90,000 employees in 110 countries, owned and operated well-known global brands such as Avis, Budget, Orbitz.com, Cheaptickets.com, ebookers.com, Galileo, Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, PHH Mortgage, Ramada, Wyndham Resorts, Days Inn, Howard Johnson and Super 8. Elliot joined HFS, Cendant’s predecessor, in April 1997 as vice president of corporate communications.
In 1994, Elliot moved from Southern California to Chicago to accept a position at Dun and Bradstreet’s ACNielsen Marketing Research unit as vice president of U.S. communications and advertising. He played a key role in the 1995 breakup of Dun and Bradstreet, and specifically in the spin off (IPO) of AC Nielsen.
From 1982 – 1992, Elliot held senior communications positions within PepsiCo’s beverage, snack food and restaurant divisions—Pepsi-Cola Company, Frito-Lay, Inc. and Taco Bell Corporation. While at Taco Bell, he and CEO, John Martin played an integral role in the development, implementation and communication of the widely recognized “Value Menu” marketing program in 1989. Taco Bell’s Value Menu initiative brought about a paradigm shift in the fast food sector. In a book about the fast food industry by Greg Critser (Fat Land, Houghton Mifflin, 2003), Elliot was referred to as a “marketing whiz” for his work on Taco Bell’s Value Menu. In August 1988, Elliot convinced Taco Bell management to sponsor the first American/Soviet baseball tournament. The goodwill tournament, played in Moscow, Kiev and Tbilisi, received widespread media coverage and helped to brand Taco Bell as both a socially conscious corporation and a mainstream fast food chain. Today, Taco Bell is a sponsor of Major League Baseball.
Early in his career, Elliot was a trade journalist and held senior editorial positions at two publications specializing in the consumer packaged goods industry – Private Label Magazine, which he helped to found in 1978; and one of the oldest and most respected industry publications in the United States, Beverage World. Beverage World’s predecessor publication, National Bottler’s Gazette, was founded in March 1882.
Elliot is an avid long-distance runner who has completed 37 marathons. He serves on the boards of the Achilles Track Club and After-School All Stars of New York City; non-profit, 501©(3) organizations that support handicapped athletes and provide after school programming for inner city youth, respectively. He also served as a director on the board of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) from 1994 to 2004. FRAC is a non-profit organization focused on the eradication of hunger and poverty in the United States. He has been recognized on numerous occasions by local chapters of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for outstanding work in public relations and communications.
Elliot earned his B.A. in social sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Anthony B. Purcell has over 27 years of law enforcement experience including 15 years as a Police Chief. Anthony is the current Assistant Vice President and Chief of Police at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since October 2006. He was the former Deputy Chief of Police at The Georgia Institute of Technology for three years, and the former Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for nine years. He was the former Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C. for three years. Anthony started his law enforcement career with the Durham County Sheriff’s Department in Durham, N.C. and was there for nine years.
Anthony is an alumnus of North Carolina Central University, where he graduated magna cum laude in earning a Bachelor’s degree and summa cum laude in earning a Master’s degree. Both degrees are in Criminal Justice. He is a graduate of the prestigious Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy; the Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police Certification Program; the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Executive Development Institute; the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police Executive Chiefs Training School; and the North Carolina Institute of Government’s Law Enforcement Executive Program. Anthony is an assessor for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), and an assessor for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Loaned Executive Management Assistance Program (LEMAP).
In addition to his law enforcement duties, Anthony is on the Board of Directors for IACLEA serving as the Southeast Region Director. He is a board member for the City of Birmingham’s Crime Stoppers Program and has served on boards in the cities of Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina, respectively. Anthony is a former adjunct instructor in the criminal justice Program at UNC Charlotte, and has served as an adjunct instructor in the criminal justice program at North Carolina Central University, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is also a former adjunct instructor in the criminal justice program at Durham Technical Community College.
Anthony is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA); The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE); The Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy Associates (FBINAA); Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP); and several other professional organizations, boards and clubs.
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Katherine G. Forman is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography & Political Science with a certificate in Computer Software. She’s worked with ESRI, the world’s leading GIS software company, on a handheld mapping project for first responders. The effort allows responding firefighters the ability to view site locations and building floor plans on their handheld computers. Ms. Forman has university and college emergency planning experience through her employment at the University of Vermont including pandemic planning and preparation. She has developed and managed emergency operations plans and procedures. Ms.Forman is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and currently serves on the local emergency planning committee (LEPC) in Chittenden County, Vermont.
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Jason D. Friedberg has more than a decade in higher education public safety serving numerous roles and institutions. Currently he is the Chief of Public Safety for Bucknell University with management responsibilities for all law enforcement, security and parking services, Life and Fire safety, emergency planning & preparation, and emergency medical services.
During his 15-year career, Mr. Friedberg has served as a deputy sheriff, police officer, search & rescue team officer, emergency medical technician and marketing specialist. His experience and leadership has resulted in an exceptionally strong interdisciplinary approach to the administration, management and delivery of public safety services.
In his current role, Mr. Friedberg has oversight of planning and research, budget, personnel recruitment and retention, town-gown relation, web presence and general direction of the department. At Bucknell University, he has overseen the Public Safety Department’s transition to an armed police service; developed the institution’s National Response Framework (NRF) compliant emergency plan; and recent served as Operations Chief for the nation’s first and largest multi-state, multi-agency emergency drill. Overseen by FEMA, the CDC and PEMA, the two-day exercise encompassed two-dozen operational commands, national and local communication systems and more than 2000 participants.
Mr. Friedberg earned a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Westfield State College and a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Western New England College. He is a graduate of the 1st Massachusetts Special State Police Academy Class and Penn State University’s Police Executive School (POLEX). He developed a nationally recognized training program in Event and Risk Management for university Greek programs, and presents regionally and nationally on town/gown relations, security technology, and emergency preparedness. In 2007, immediately following the tragic shooting event at Virginia Tech, he published a white paper “Responding to Tragedy” as an immediate roadmap for Bucknell University and other institutions to improve security and early detection systems on campus.
Mr. Friedberg serves on the board of directors for the Department of Homeland Security’s North Central Joint Terrorist Taskforce (NCJTTF), the Union County Criminal Justice Advisory Board (CJAB), Union County Communications Advisory Committee, and previously for the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition (LCSC). He is a member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS).
He lives with his wife and two sons in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Paul V. Verrecchia has over 35 years law enforcement experience, with over ten years experience in campus law enforcement/public safety. He is the Chief/Director of Public Safety at the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC), where he oversees the College’s law enforcement, security, fire safety and emergency medical services programs. He is the chair of the College’s Emergency Management Team. After the Virginia Tech tragedy, he oversaw the development of the institution’s Emergency Preparedness and Implementation Plan. Prior to being at the College of Charleston, Paul was the Chief of Police & Director of Public Safety at Brown University (Providence, RI) for the eight years. He was the chief architect of the implementation plan for arming Brown’s campus police officers.
Paul was also a member of the Providence (RI) Police Department for 22 years, rising to the rank of Major. As a Major, he held positions as Director of the Patrol and Traffic Services Division and Director of the Administrative-Staff Division. During his career with the Providence Police, Paul was assigned to the organized crime intelligence unit, the narcotics unit, and the Neighborhood Services Bureau, which was responsible for the investigation of bias-related crimes and community relations. While with Neighborhood Services, he also implemented interpreter programs for the City’s Southeast Asian community.
Under Chief Verrecchia’s leadership, the Brown University Department of Public Safety received its initial accreditation and two reaccreditations from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Paul has also been a team leader and assessor for CALEA since 1998.
In November 2001, Paul was appointed by the Honorable Lincoln C. Almond, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, to serve as the Chairperson of the Governor’s Accreditation Commission. He also served four years as a Commissioner for the Rhode Island Ethics Commission.
An Institutional Member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) (www.iaclea.org) since 1997, Chief Verrecchia is currently a member of the Association’s Board of Directors. He served for approximately seven years as a member of the Government Relations Committee. Paul also served two years as a member of IACLEA’s Accreditation Commission. He was a member of the Commission’s Standards Review and Interpretation Sub-Committee.
Paul holds a Master of Public Administration, with a concentration in Labor Relations, from the University of Rhode Island and two Bachelor’s degrees from Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI). Chief Verrecchia was an adjunct instructor for the Community of Rhode Island for approximately 12 years in both the criminal justice and sociology programs. He currently is an adjunct instructor for the College of Charleston Department of Anthropology and Sociology’s Crime, Law and Society program.
Paul lives in North Charleston, SC with his family.
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Employment Law, Legal Issues Affecting Colleges and Universities
Mr. Nolan’s litigation and counseling practice with Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C. focuses on representing employers and institutions of higher education in employment and student-related litigation, advising employers and institutions of higher education on the resolution and legal implications of employment and student-related issues, and assisting employers and institutions of higher education in the development and implementation of appropriate policies, handbooks and training programs. Jeff is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA).
Mr. Nolan works with clients to develop sound risk management strategies and policies, and often speaks at client-sponsored training programs and public conferences on issues related to crisis management planning, at-risk individuals assessment and response planning, and related privacy and disability law issues. Example pertinent conference presentations include: a nationally-broadcast NACUA-sponsored Virtual Seminar, “Dealing with Distressed and Suicidal Students,” (October, 2005); two sessions at the University of Vermont’s Legal Issues in Higher Education conference regarding the Creation and Implementation of Emergency Response and Recovery Plans on Campus (October, 2007); a presentation on Understanding, Anticipating and Preventing Workplace Violence for the Vermont Human Resources Association (November, 2007); a NACUA annual conference discussion group, “Danger to Self/Danger to Others: The Suicidal Student” (June, 2002), and a number of presentations at UVM and client-sponsored conferences on student privacy laws, at-risk student and employee issues, and risk management strategies.
Mr. Nolan is listed in Chambers & Partners America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Labor and Employment law, in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Labor and Employment law, and in New England Super Lawyers in the area of Employment and Labor law.
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As the former Deputy Director of Planning and Response in the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Gregory Thomas assisted communities and schools around the nation in the assessment and improvement of their current levels of emergency preparedness. Prior to his position with Columbia University, he served as the Executive Director of the Office of School Safety and Planning with the New York City Department of Education (DOE), the largest school district in the United States. As the senior law enforcement/security official for the DOE, Mr. Thomas worked closely with federal, state and local officials to address security and disaster related issues that arose for the many schools in the lower Manhattan area affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As a result of this work at the request of the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of State, in February 2002, Mr. Thomas served on a select panel of international school safety officials that discussed and implemented strategies to prepare schools for the possibility of terrorist attacks.
Recognized as one of the nation’s top school safety and experts and conference speakers, he has been featured in various national media venues such as the U.S. News and World Report, the New York Times and the cable news show Fox and Friends, and has coauthored three books on school safety for the Janes Information Group, including the most comprehensive book published to date on school safety – the 450 page Janes Safe School Planning Guide for All Hazards. He is the author of a recently released book from Random House publishers titled Freedom from Fear: A Guide to Safety, Preparedness and the Threat of Terrorism, which offers advice to readers on how to prepare themselves and their families for a worst case scenario like a natural disaster or an act of terrorism.
During his over twenty-two years of public service, Mr. Thomas has held various executive positions in the fields of criminal justice and public safety. He has served as an Assistant Commissioner with the New York City Fire Department, as Associate Director of the City University of New York/New York City Police Department Cadet Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as a senior investigator with the Mollen Commission, the mayoral commission that investigated corruption within the New York City Police Department, and as a First Deputy Inspector General with the New York City Department of Investigation.
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Penny Shtull is an associate professor of criminal justice in the Department of Justice Studies at Norwich University in Vermont. She earned a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Criminal Justice, as well as a M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and a B.SW. from McGill University in Montreal.
In addition to her publications in police and criminological journals, Dr. Shtull has served as a consultant for various organizations and state agencies including the Police Foundation (Washington, D.C.); the New York City Police Department; the Vera Institute of Justice (N.Y.); the Criminal Justice Research Center (N.Y.); the Vermont Center for Justice Research; the Burlington Police Department (VT); the Vermont Department of Corrections; the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations (CUSI); the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council; and the Vermont Children’s Alliance and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program. In addition, she has served on the Washington County, Vermont Sexual Assault Review Team, the Vermont Department of Corrections Reparative Probation Board, and the Educational Advisory Board at the Northwest State Correctional Center. Professor Shtull is the Immediate Past President of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences (NEACJS) and has served on its Executive Board in various capacities since 1997. In June 2009, she was the recipient of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences Association’s Founders Award in recognition of her service and significant and outstanding contributions to the Association.
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Stan K. Shernock is Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Justice Studies & Sociology at Norwich University in Vermont. He received his B.A. in criminology from Univer-sity of California (Berkeley), his M.A. in sociology from Indiana University, where he held a National Institute of Mental Health fellowship in deviant behavior, and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Virginia, where he held a National Defense Foreign Language (East Europe) fellowship.
He has been President of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, and served on the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Criminology and the Peer Review and Publications Committees of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He also has served on the editorial boards of Criminal Justice Policy Review, Criminal Justice Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Criminal Justice and Behavior, and is currently Book Editor for Policing: An International Journal of Police Management and Strategies and editor of a special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior on police training and homeland security. He has published articles on police solidarity and community orientation, the civilianization of the police communications division, police defensiveness and ethical orientations, college education and police professional orientations, military stress socialization for police, new developments on police academy training, multi-jurisdictional task forces in law enforcement, special units and community policing, the effect of third party roles on police response to partner violence, and police response to women offenders in partner violence incidents .
He has also published articles on the conflict between political and criminal prisoners in concentration camps, crime prevention activism, bystander intervention in criminal events, criminal justice education, disreputability in nightspots, revolutionary successors, continuous violent conflict as a system of authority, and the refractory aspect of terror in movement-regimes, and numerous book reviews on criminological, criminal justice, and sociological topics. He has been a consultant on a number of projects, including a job task analysis for the Vermont Police Academy, a community survey for the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations, and a police consolidation feasibility study for Barre City/Barre Town.
Finally, he has been appointed a consultant to the National Institute of Justice, and a board member of Vermont Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board, the committee of Criminal Justice Standards for the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, the Burlington Technical Center’s Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice Program, and the Washington County, Vermont Sexual Abuse Review Team.
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Vicky M. Stormo retired after 29 years of law enforcement service, most recently having served as the Chief of Police at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1999 to 2008. UWPD is a fully accredited law enforcement agency by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies. The fifty-five commissioned officers of the University of Washington Police Department oversee 680 acres with a service population of 67,000 people.
The University of Washington police address many challenges including activism in the Northwest that led to the WTO riots and arson of the Urban Horticulture Center; dignitary protection; managing football games with 74,000 screaming Husky fans; a top ten Medical Center and Health Sciences department; and a major research institution. She retired from the Albuquerque Police Department at the rank of lieutenant to take the chief’s job at UW in Seattle. While in Albuquerque, she worked in many facets of the department, including patrol, detectives, civil litigation, operations review, watch commander, communications center commander, and recruiting and selection.
She was credited with increasing the number of women applicants from 8% to 25% while serving as the Recruitment and Selection commander and has spoken nationally about the strategy used to attract women along with the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Sciences (IWITTS). She also increased the number of women at the UWPD to 24%, doubling the national average. In her law enforcement career, she was the Officer of the Month in her rookie year, was featured on Paul Harvey for solving a series of armed robberies utilizing computers when computer technology was new to law enforcement, and has received the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women Trailblazer award and the YWCA Woman on the Move award. She has also received the Breaking the Glass Ceiling award from the National Center for Women and Policing. Ms. Stormo has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology from the University of Albuquerque and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of New Mexico. She is a past President of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives.
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In addition to his work for MH&A, Daniel Pascale is the Senior Director of Emergency Communications & Security Technology for the University of Chicago. In this role he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of physical security systems including the design, procurement and implementation of security technology. In addition, Dan oversees the UC Communications Center which serves as the primary public safety answering point for the University and Medical Center Safety and Security operations. Prior to the University of Chicago, he served 9 years with Rutgers University in NJ where he held the position of Commander of Security Operations and later the Director of Emergency Management with the Division of Public Safety. Dan is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and was selected as one of America’s “Top 20 Security Professionals under 40” by Security Director News in July 2009. He has completed the Emergency Management Institutes Incident Command, Unified Command and Community Educator programs in addition to Basic and Enhanced Risk Assessment through the Department of Homeland Security and Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). Dan has written several articles published in periodicals such as Security Management, Security Dynamics and Campus Security Report relating to event planning, risk analysis and physical security. He has also served as President of the NJ College & University Public Safety Association and as a member of the NJ Governor’s Campus Security Task Force.
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Marlon C. Lynch is the Associate Vice President for Public Safety at the University of Chicago where he is responsible for public safety organizational integration, operational enhancements and security technology. UCPD employs more than 100 sworn personnel and 127 part-time officers. The University’s transportation operation includes private and public buses contracted through the Chicago Transit Authority.
Prior to this, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor & Chief of Police at Vanderbilt University since August 2005. Mr. Lynch was responsible for primary administrative management at the Vanderbilt Police Department for police and security services for the main campus and the medical center, as well as oversight of planning and research, budget, personnel, public information, community relations, emergency preparedness and general direction of the department.
His career progression includes 16 years of law enforcement experience in the municipal and campus environments. Marlon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University and earned a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University. He is a graduate of the 216th Session of the FBI National Academy and the 256th Class of the Northwestern University School of Police Staff & Command. He serves as an adjunct instructor for the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety and also is an instructor for the Southeastern Command and Leadership Academy sponsored through the University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center.
Mr. Lynch serves on the board of directors as President of the International Association of Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) (2009 - 2010), and is a member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). Marlon resides with his wife and two sons in Chicago, IL.
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Louis M. Dekmar has 31 years police experience, with 17 years as police chief or chief of public safety. Presently, he serves as Chief of Public Safety for the City of LaGrange, Georgia. He is responsible for supervision, personnel and management of the LaGrange Police and Fire Department. In the police department, Chief Dekmar instituted significant personnel, operational, and service-related initiatives, improving training and educational curriculum, and developing and expanding community and problem solving policing programs (COMSTAT), reducing liability and crime rates and increasing customer satisfaction. The police agency was accredited by CALEA in 1999 and re-accredited in 2002, 2005, and 2008; State Certified in 1998, 2002, and 2008. The Fire Department (Class 2) operates four stations and provides a variety of fire and EMS services. The Departments of Public Safety employ over 180 full-time and part-time employees. The police department provides contract police services for LaGrange College and LaGrange Public Housing Authority. He is responsible for the public safety function of LaGrange College, a four-year liberal arts and sciences institution offering 53 academic and pre-professional programs.
Chief Dekmar is the Chairperson of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and, as a Governor-appointed member of the Georgia Board of Public Safety, provides policy oversight for the Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Georgia Public Safety Training Center. Chief Dekmar is a former member of the Peace Officer’s Standards and Training Council (POST), serving on the Probable Cause Committee. He is also Past-President of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, representing over 550 police chiefs in a variety of forums. In 2006, he chaired a “vehicle pursuit” committee for the Georgia Chief’s Association, which published a white paper. The pursuit research was accepted by the United States Supreme Court in a Brief of Amicus Curiae (Scott v Harris).
Chief Dekmar has served as a Civil Rights Monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. He monitored a police agency for three years to ensure compliance with tasks detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) between the agency and DOJ. In that capacity, Chief Dekmar assisted the agency in developing policies, protocols, and procedures to ensure sufficient managerial safeguards addressing officer misconduct issues, particularly those involving bias based profiling.
In the last 25 years, Chief Dekmar has served as an adjunct professor for several colleges and universities, teaching management, criminal justice and ethics courses. He is also a national presenter for police and elected leaders on a range of topics involving leadership, ethics, and liability issues.
Chief Dekmar holds a Masters of Public Administration, Georgia College and State University, and a Bachelor of Science, University of Wyoming. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and a graduate of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar (LEEDS). Chief Dekmar is a member if IACP (Police Image and Ethics and Private Sector Liaison committees).
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Kevin Cheney has over eighteen (18) years experience in Security and Crowd Management, including the last fifteen as President, CEO of Green Mtn. Concert Services, Inc. (GMCS). His leadership, experience, and pride in being the best, has made GMCS a trusted and respected industry leader and the reason GMCS was called on to provide security for President Clinton’s Key Note Address at Middlebury College commencement in 2007.
Kevin serves on the board of directors for First Night Burlington, and is a founding member on the Advisory Board of White Ribbon Campaign of Vermont. He helped found the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival to celebrate Lake Champlain and the Burlington Waterfront. As a business owner he believes in supporting local business and out sources almost all projects exclusively to Vermont companies. In addition, he and his wife founded the Green Mountain Autism Foundation to provide support to Vermont families.
Prior to a career as a safety professional, Cheney spent six years in the Vermont Army National Guard as a Combat Medic / Medical specialist in the 3/172 Mountain Infantry and completed the Mountain Warfare school summer phase. He uses much of what he learned in the military as a guide to his corporate structure and business philosophy. His charisma is infectious and inspires a productive environment. He rewards his employees and believes in promoting from within to encourage skill improvement and career growth.
As a staunch professional he has guided and grown GMCS from a company known for it’s successful security and crowd management services for the band Phish to a sought after company with a resume that includes events such as, but not limited to, Lollapalooza, USTA Federation Cup, ESPN X Games, Great Outdoor Games, Burton Snowboards, and Bonnaroo. However it’s the protection of people like the President, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that better demonstrates the level of confidence he has earned in the industry and the level of service he delivers.
Other accolades and achievements of Cheney’s include, receiving a national certification from the IAAM’s Academy for Venue Safety & Security (years 1 and 2); attending the IAAM’s International Crowd Management Conference (2002 – 2009); acting as a Vermont State certified trainer in security and Vermont State certified trainer in temporary traffic control. He has also completed an Executive Protection course offered by R.L. Oatman & Associates in 2002 in Towson, Maryland, completed the Sport Event Risk Management Workshop put on by the Department of Homeland Security, and San Diego Police Department Veteran, Robert Smith’s training course in Hospitality Operations Security Techniques (HOST™). He was also awarded the Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation in 2007 from the University of Vermont Department of Police Services.
Kevin has attended the IAAM’s International Crowd Management Conference (2002 – 2008,) and received a national certification from the IAAM’s Academy for Venue Safety & Security. Additionally, he is a Vermont State certified trainer in security and temporary traffic control. Kevin has completed an Executive Protection course offered by R.L. Oatman & Associates in 2002 in Towson, Maryland. Closer to home, Kevin serves on the board of directors for First Night Burlington, and along with Dr. Margolis, is a founding member of the White Ribbon Campaign of Vermont.
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Steven J. Healy was the Director of Public Safety at Princeton University from 2003 through 2009. He is a Past President of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), and twelve year member of its Government Relations Committee. As President of IACLEA, Steven contributed significantly to the national dialogue about campus safety and security in the aftermath of the tragic rampage-shooting incident at Virginia Tech in April 2007.
He has appeared on numerous news programs and talk shows including CNN with Lou Dobbs, ABC Nightly News, CBS, the Fox Network, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. He testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the topic of “Security on America’s Campuses.” In May 2007, he was invited to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on the topic of “Best Practices for Keeping America’s Campuses Safe.”
Mr. Healy was named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry” by Security Magazine. In December 2007, he completed his term as the chairperson of the National Center for Campus Public Safety Advisory Board. In February 2008, he was a featured presenter in a Plenary Session at the ACE Annual Meeting, addressing issues of “Campus Security, Response and Recovery in a New Era.”
Prior to Princeton, Mr. Healy was the Chief of Police at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, and served as Director of Operations for the Department of Public Safety at Syracuse University. Mr. Healy is a 1984 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and spent 10 years on active duty with the United States Air Force as a Security Police Officer. He is a frequent speaker at national conferences and seminars on issues related to campus safety and security and serves as a subject-matter expert for the U.S. Departments of Education, Homeland Security, and Justice. He is IACLEA’s representative to the NACUBO “National Campus Safety and Security Project” and to EDUCAUSE’s “The IT Role in Campus Safety” project.
In addition to numerous webinars and presentations for national, state and local professional associations, Mr. Healy has been a featured speaker and panelist on campus safety and security for the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
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Dr. Gary J. Margolis has 20 years of distinguished experience in public safety and more than a decade in higher education as the Chief of Police at the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (1998 - 2009). He has served as a police executive; police officer and deputy sheriff; and police academy administrator.
Under his leadership, UVM Police Services is a three-time internationally accredited police agency through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies for whom Dr. Margolis is a Commissioner (www.calea.org)
Dr. Margolis holds a Research Associate Professor appointment in the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services, and an adjunct professor appointment at Norwich University. He teaches leadership and policy studies for masters and doctoral students in UVM’s Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Program, and organizational development and policy administration for masters students in Norwich University’s Masters of Justice Administration program.
He is a Past General Chair of the University & College Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the oldest and largest police association in the world, and a former member of the association’s executive committee. He is often called upon by the US Departments of Justice, Education and Homeland Security as a campus security expert. He is a founding faculty member of the IACP National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women sponsored by the US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. He is a much sought after speaker, consultant, educator, expert witness, and trainer on campus safety and security; security technology application; emergency response & recovery planning; and preventing violence against women crimes on campuses.
Shortly after the 9/11 tragedies, Dr. Margolis was appointed by The Honorable James Douglas, Governor of the State of Vermont, to serve on the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisory Committee. He has led or been involved in several national and international initiatives for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA).
Dr. Margolis has testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and is a highly sought-after consultant specializing in higher education and K-12 related crises response and communications; emergency management; public safety management studies; educational campus security and safety audits; and workplace violence prevention and violence against women crimes. He has been a featured presenter for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA); the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO); the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS); the National Stalking Resource Center; and the Community College Conference on Legal Issues in Orlando, FL.
He is a graduate of the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Program. In early 2008, he traveled to Israel as an invited guest of the Israeli Government and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) to study terrorism and share his expertise with the Israel National Police and Israel Defense Forces. His work has been featured in Police Chief magazine and the Campus Law Enforcement Journal magazine. Dr. Margolis is a member in good standing of the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC).
Dr. Margolis holds a Masters Degree in Education and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Vermont.