Congressman Thompson claimed his seat in the House on April 20, 1993. He is a native of Bolton, Mississippi, and considers it an honor to walk the path Mississippi civil rights icons paved decades ago. Congressman Thompson understands the challenges many families in Mississippi face each and every day. Serving his 15th term in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Thompson has spent his entire career fighting to improve the lives of all people. He is the longest-serving African American elected official in the State of Mississippi and the lone Democrat in the Mississippi Congressional Delegation. He began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College. He organized voter registration drives for African Americans throughout the Mississippi Delta on behalf of the organization before graduating and following in the footsteps of his mother by becoming a schoolteacher.
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tougaloo College in Political Science and a Master of Science degree in Educational Administration from Jackson State University. From 1969 to 1972, Thompson served as alderman in his hometown, before serving as the city’s mayor from 1973 to 1980. During his time as mayor, Thompson improved the city’s infrastructure by paving roads, fixing the water and sewer systems, and repairing and renovating dilapidated houses; all while spearheading the construction of city hall and re-evaluating the town’s real estate.
Thompson was a founding member of the Mississippi Association of Black Mayors where he instituted policies and provided services benefiting Bolton’s underserved. The selfless service Thompson provided for his hometown was increased when he was elected as a Hinds County supervisor, a position he held from 1980 until 1993. The then-supervisor’s record of being a pragmatic local servant was embraced by constituents in Mississippi’s most populous county.
In 2000, Thompson was a lead author and sponsor of a measure that created the National Center for Minority Health and Health Care Disparities. Congressman Thompson served on the Agriculture, Budget, and Small Business Committees before assuming the top Democratic position on Homeland Security in 2005. Congressman Thompson was promoted to serve as the first-ever Democratic Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee by his colleagues.
On July 1, 2021, Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Rep. Thompson Chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Under Chairman Thompson’s leadership, the bipartisan committee conducted a thorough investigation of the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and worked to ensure nothing like that attack ever occurs again. The Select Committee presented its findings about a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 election, reflecting the body of evidence the committee has amassed more than 1,000 interviews and hundreds of thousands of records.
Most recently, Congressman Thompson received the Chairman’s Award during the 2023 NAACP Image Award. The honor recognizes Thompson's advocacy for civil rights. Congressman Thompson is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity (Gamma Rho – Tougaloo College) and a lifetime member of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Bolton, Mississippi. He has been married to his college sweetheart, London Johnson of Mound Bayou, Mississippi for 54 years. The couple has one daughter, one granddaughter, and one grandson. Thompson is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys gardening, reading, and listening to the blues

Mr. Wray was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992. He then clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 1993, he began working in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Wray began his Department of Justice career in 1997 as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he prosecuted cases ranging from public corruption to gun trafficking and financial fraud. In 2001, he joined the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, where he served as associate deputy attorney general and then principal associate deputy attorney general, with oversight responsibilities spanning the full Department.
In 2003, Mr. Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. In addition to overseeing criminal matters, Mr. Wray played a key role in the evolving national security mission of the Department. He also served on the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force and supervised the Enron Task Force and other major national and international fraud investigations. At the conclusion of his tenure, Mr. Wray was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the Department of Justice’s highest award for leadership and public service.
After leaving the Department of Justice in 2005, Mr. Wray returned to private practice at the law firm King & Spalding, where he chaired the Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group.

She then spent nearly 10 years at Delta Air Lines, where she was the airline’s highest-ranking woman of color worldwide. As Senior Attorney, she represented Delta Air Lines in labor/personnel, and antitrust litigation and commercial acquisitions. As Public Relations Manager, she supervised global crisis management and handled media relations for 50 U.S. cities as well as all of Europe and Asia.
Currently, Hatchett is the Founder of Hatchett Consulting Group that specializes with over 40 years of combined experience as an attorney, judge, crisis management expert, mediator, and television talent, she has amassed an extraordinary network of strong, brilliant attorneys and experts across the nation.
Hatchett was the founder of a national law firm, The Hatchett Firm, P.C. based in Atlanta, Georgia for seven years. The firm specialized in catastrophic injuries, wrongful deaths, tractor trailer accidents, premises liability and catastrophic police misconduct cases.
She is a member of both the Georgia Bar and the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Hatchett has served on the Boards of three Fortune 500 companies – HCA, The Gap Inc. and ServiceMaster Company.
While on the Board of Directors of HCA, she was Chair of the Ethics, Compliance and Quality of Care Committee. She was also a member of the HCA board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Hatchett was a member of the five-person special board committee that negotiated HCA’s $32.7 billion leveraged buyout paving the way for the nation's largest forprofit hospital chain to go private. At the time, the buyout was the largest leveraged buyout in US corporate history.
While a Board Director for The Gap Inc., Hatchett served on the Governance, Nominating and Social Responsibility Committee and the Compensation and Management Development Committee.
Hatchett left Delta Air Lines to accept an appointment as Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County (Atlanta, Georgia) Juvenile Court—becoming the first African-American Chief Presiding Judge of a state court in Georgia and head of one of the largest juvenile court systems in the country.

She is responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protection and investigations by leading a diverse workforce composed of more than 7,800 Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers, Technical Law Enforcement Officers, and Administrative, Professional, and Technical personnel.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America. Her role at PepsiCo involved developing risk management assessment and risk mitigation strategies.
Before joining PepsiCo, she served with distinction for 27 years in the U.S. Secret Service, most recently as Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations. In this position, Ms. Cheatle managed a $133.5M budget and collaborated with ten operational divisions and the Technical Security Division to research, develop and deploy technologies that reduce risks to protectees, protected facilities, and protected events.
Prior to serving as Assistant Director, Ms. Cheatle was the Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Office, providing oversight for all mission related investigations, protective intelligence and protective visits in the state of Georgia.
Ms. Cheatle was appointed to the Senior Executive Service (SES) in February 2016 as the Special Agent in Charge of the James J. Rowley Training Center (RTC). There she directed and coordinated all aspects of training and career development for the organization, later serving as the Deputy Assistant Director for the Office of Training.
Prior to her SES appointment, Ms. Cheatle was the Special Agent in Charge, Office of Stragetic Planning and Policy, where she developed and deployed an innovative web-based communication platform designed to promote open and transparent communication within the organization.

The United States Senate confirmed his nomination on September 22, 2021, and Mr. Davis was sworn in as the 12th Director of the Marshals Service on September 27, 2021.
As the leader of America's oldest federal law enforcement agency, Mr. Davis leads a workforce of over 10,000 professionals, including more than 5,000 operational and administrative employees, and close to 6,000 special deputized court security officers, spanning over 500 domestic offices within the 94 judicial districts, and four foreign field offices. The USMS is responsible for federal judicial security, fugitive apprehension, witness security, asset forfeiture, and prisoner operations, and has an annual operating budget of over $3.8 billion.
From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Davis served in the Obama Administration as the Director of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). In this capacity, Mr. Davis was responsible for working with the over 16,000 local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies in the United States to advance community policing. In December 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Davis to serve as the Executive Director of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing charged with developing concrete recommendations to improve community trust in the police while enhancing public safety.
Mr. Davis has served more than 28 years in law enforcement starting in 1985 with the Oakland, California, Police Department. In Oakland, Mr. Davis worked in assignments including SWAT team leader, police academy director, criminal investigations commander, Area commander, and Inspector General of the Department. Mr. Davis became Police Chief for the City of East Palo Alto, California, in 2005, and held that position for more than 8 years. As Police Chief, Mr. Davis worked collaboratively with the community to improve public trust, enhance organizational accountability, and dramatically reduce crime and violence in a city once named the murder capital of the United States.
Mr. Davis possesses a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University and has completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

From October 15, 2014, to January 20, 2017, she served as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Appointed by President Barack Obama as the chief civil rights prosecutor for the United States, Gupta oversaw a wide range of criminal and civil enforcement efforts to ensure equal justice and protect equal opportunity for all during one of the most consequential periods for the division.
Under Gupta’s leadership, the division did critical work in a number of areas, including advancing constitutional policing and criminal justice reform; prosecuting hate crimes and human trafficking; promoting disability rights; protecting the rights of LGBTQ individuals; ensuring voting rights for all; and combating discrimination in education, housing, employment, lending, and religious exercise. She regularly engaged with a broad range of stakeholders in the course of this work.
She selected high profile matters during her tenure included the investigations of the Ferguson, Baltimore, and Chicago police departments; the appeals of the Texas and North Carolina voter ID cases; the challenge to North Carolina’s HB2 law and other transgender rights litigation; enforcement of education, land use, hate crimes, and other statutes to combat Islamophobia and other forms of religious discrimination; the issuance of statements of interest on bail and indigent defense reform, and letters to state and local court judges and administrators on the unlawful imposition of fines and fees in criminal justice system; and the Administration’s report on solitary confinement.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Gupta served as Deputy Legal Director and the Director of the Center for Justice at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She joined the ACLU in 2006 as a staff attorney, where she subsequently secured a landmark settlement on behalf of immigrant children from around the world detained in a privately-run prison in Texas that ultimately led to the end of “family detention” at the facility. In addition to managing a robust litigation docket at the ACLU, Gupta created and led the organization’s Smart Justice Campaign aimed at ending mass incarceration while keeping communities safe. She worked with law enforcement agencies, corrections officials, advocates, stakeholders, and elected officials across the political spectrum to build collaborative support for pretrial, drug, and sentencing policies that make our federal, state, and local criminal justice systems more effective and more just.

The Buffalo Police Department is the second largest city police department in New York State with a budgeted force of over 800 sworn members and 275 civilian professional members.
Commissioner Gramaglia is a graduate of the State University of New York at Fredonia with a bachelor’s degree in communications and the State University of New York College at Buffalo with a Master of Public Administration. Additionally, he has attended the FBI National Executive Institute and the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police.
With over 28 years of police experience, Commissioner Gramaglia is a staunch advocate for reducing gun and gang violence through community engagement and scientific data driven strategies. He believes in building strong relationships within the community based on trust and transparency. Commissioner Gramaglia has instituted numerous evidenced based strategies within the department including an enhanced custom notification based program and in 2022, implemented an enhanced data driven micro-hot spot violent crime reduction plan that has shown immediate results in the reduction of shootings throughout the city.
Commissioner Gramaglia began his career with the Buffalo Housing Police Department in 1994 as a public safety officer patrolling the municipal housing developments in the City. In 1996, he was hired by the Buffalo Police Department as a police officer assigned to patrol until 2008 when he was promoted to Lieutenant assigned to patrol. He was also a member of the Underwater Rescue and Recovery Team as a scuba diver for four years. In 2013, Commissioner Gramaglia was promoted to Captain and assigned as the commander of the Homicide/Crimes Against Persons Division. In 2016, he was promoted to Chief and assigned Buffalo’s Central District, which included the central business district, entertainment areas, sporting arenas and many diverse city neighborhoods. In this assignment, he was tasked with large scale planning for many events including parades, races, large festival events, and concerts. Then-Chief Gramaglia focused on a robust community policing strategy to increase community trust and engagement that resulted in significant crime reduction and fostered deeper community relationships. In May of 2018, Commissioner Gramaglia was promoted to Deputy Police Commissioner of Operations, overseeing all policing operations and homeland security operations for the department.
Commissioner Gramaglia is a member of the Major Cities Chiefs’ Association and the eastern region board member, Police Executive Research Forum, the New York State Chiefs of Police Association and the Erie County Chiefs of Police Association.

Based in Rochester, ASAC Bell also has oversight of the Rochester and Corning Resident Agencies. Mr. Bell joined the FBI in September 2007 and was assigned to the New York Field Office, where he investigated public corruption and civil rights matters. Mr. Bell was nominated for the Attorney General's Award multiple times as the lead case agent on different investigations. In January 2014, Mr. Bell was promoted to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Public Corruption Unit. In that capacity, Mr. Bell managed the FBI's public corruption program in the northeast. In August 2015, Mr. Bell became the supervisor of the Buffalo Field Office's Child Exploitation Task Force. He was transferred to the Rochester Resident Agency (RRA) in April 2016, where he assumed leadership of the criminal programs in the RRA. Mr. Bell supervised two task forces and led agents and professional staffers responsible for every criminal violation in the Rochester area. Mr. Bell was subsequently promoted to the RRA's Supervisory Senior Resident Agent in January 2019 before becoming ASAC in July 2019. Prior to working for the FBI, Mr. Bell was an attorney in the Washington D.C. office of the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Mr. Bell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Binghamton University. He earned his law degree from William and Mary Law School where he graduated near the top of his class and was a member of the William and Mary Law Review. Mr. Bell is married and has two children.

In this capacity he is responsible for all physical, technical, and construction security, the secure transport of classified diplomatic materials across international borders, and protective security equipment for all U.S. missions overseas and domestic Department of State facilities to ensure the protection of people, classified information, and property against all threats.
Mr. Stuart began his career in the Foreign Service in 2001 as a Security Engineering Officer and has since held numerous and varied assignments throughout the world. He most recently served as the Director of the Office of Security Technology, responsible for managing the worldwide DS Technical Security Program. Previously he has served as the Director for Security Technology Operations and Director for Security Technology’s Countermeasures Program. Other domestic tours include the Chief for Project Management and Engineering and as a junior engineer in Emanations Countermeasures. Mr. Stuart has served overseas as the Officer-in-Charge of the Engineering Services Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, and as the Officer-in- Charge of the Engineering Services Offices in Budapest, Hungary, and Ankara, Turkey.
Mr. Stuart has a Bachelor of Physical Science Degree in Physics from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, and has held engineering, operations, and leadership positions in the civil sector and U.S. Marine Corps.

She started her career working within an agency at the Department of Justice (DOJ),where she realized her passion for DEl. During her tenure there she was trained in policy review, consensus building,mediation, and civil rights protections in the workplace and became a volunteer EEO counselor. She worked in that capacity while attending law school and created a diversity recruitment initiative while working at DOJ within her agency to assist with creating access to and diversifying one of the core positions. The program's success won her an award and changed the way recruitment was conducted.
Upon graduating from law school,she continued her work in DEl as a consultant and attorney advising organizations,leaders,corporations and both state and federal agencies on how to create respectful, engaging, and inclusive workplaces. She worked to assist with employee belonging, engagement, organizational development and change management initiatives across various enterprises. She has developed customized training and curriculum on DEl topics,taught for years as a criminal/social justice professor and often served as a curriculum reviewer and developer for the Federal law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and US State Department for various state, local and international police courses and audiences. Often emphasis was placed on civil rights, ethics, cultural competency concerns on how those materials were presented. She is a certified mediator,and an executive coach and has worked with corporate,and public agencies to resolve matters in the workplace that had a nexus with inequitable treatment based upon race,gender, disability, and other protections.
Marcia served as general counsel for the National Organization of Black law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and provided guidance on a gamut of enforcement, DEl and social justice matters. She has served on law enforcement related committees to include the International Chiefs of Police {IACP) for years committed to ethics,civil rights and equity and has helped to develop strategies, national policies, and procedures and mechanisms for building diverse,inclusive,and equitable organizations. She also served as an Ombudsperson on Capitol Hill and collaborated with human resources,legal,compliance, and organizational leaders across the Capitol to address and resolve concerns with policies,process, and procedures, often overlapping with perceptions of unfair and inequitable treatment.
Marcia has conducted assessments and provided technical as istance for police departments to include Baltimore,Denver,Boulder, and louisville to name a few. She is a EEOC certified workplace investigator and has conducted fact finding on administrative matters,she also serves as a federal hearing officer within the Department of Justice. Marcia has taught others how to conduct impact and analysis of equity concerns while creating strategies and policies to utilize metrics and benchmarking for increasing diversity in the workplace. She has also served as a keynote speaker and often speaks at national conferences on law enforcement, and civil rights related topics.

During 1982, Dr. McMillan was credentialed a Special Agent with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Dr. McMillan served on active duty in this capacity until his separation from active duty and entering the Air Force Reserves in 1987. Dr. McMillan retired from the Air Force Reserves in February 2000.
In September 1987, Dr. McMillan began employment with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service where he held a variety of field and Headquarters positions culminating in his selection as the Special Agent in Charge, Mid-Atlantic Field Office. In September 2006, Dr. McMillan received his appointment in the Senior Executive Service and was appointed the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Inspector General. Additionally, Dr. McMillan served on the Senior Executive Service Qualification Review Board for 5 consecutive years. Dr. McMillan retired from federal service in March 2018 with over 41 years of public service.
Dr. McMillan received a BA in Criminal Justice, from Wilmington College, a MA in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Crime in Commerce from The George Washington University, a MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College, and his PhD. in Criminal Justice from Walden University. Dr. McMillan is also a graduate of the Air War College non-resident program and the Federal Executive Institute.
Dr. McMillan is a Senior Fellow with the Polarities of Democracy Institute, a Contributing Faculty member in the Walden University School of Criminal Justice, a Past National President for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, a member ofthe International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Executive Research Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. Dr. McMillan is married with two daughters and resides in Bowie, MD

He has over 50 years' experience in politics and social justice activism. He served in the US Army from 1965 to 1968, followed by 28 years in the Monroe County Legislature in Rochester, New York, including five years as Majority Leader.
Dr. Benet currently holds academic appointments as a Dissertation Committee Chair with Walden University's School of Public Policy and Administration, and an Associate Researcher with the University of Toronto's Adult Education and Community Development Program. He also is a Co-Founder and Senior Fellow of the Polarities of Democracy Institute.
Dr. Benet's work has appeared in scholarly journals and academic books, and he has presented at more than 30 international conferences in Prague, Paris, London, Glasgow, the Hague, Toronto, Montreal, and across the US. The Polarities of Democracy approach has been studied by over 4000 scholars and social change activists in at least 40 countries and is currently being used for approximately 50 specific organizational or social change efforts in the US and around the world to pursue positive social change by challenging the forces of power and privilege that sustain systemic forms of racial, gender, social, environmental, and economic oppression and violence. Through these efforts the Institute is working to build healthy, sustainable, and just organizations and communities to make the promise of democracy a reality for all people.

Kaylee began her career as a federal police officer with the Supreme Court of the United States Police Department, where she performed in both uniformed police and dignitary protection capacities. She left the department in 2012 to join NCMEC's Missing Children Division as an assistant case manager in the Family Abduction Unit. Kaylee earned her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Gannon University in 2009.

She started her career working within an agency at the Department of Justice (DOJ),where she realized her passion for DEl. During her tenure there she was trained in policy review, consensus building,mediation, and civil rights protections in the workplace and became a volunteer EEO counselor. She worked in that capacity while attending law school and created a diversity recruitment initiative while working at DOJ within her agency to assist with creating access to and diversifying one of the core positions. The program's success won her an award and changed the way recruitment was conducted.
Upon graduating from law school,she continued her work in DEl as a consultant and attorney advising organizations,leaders,corporations and both state and federal agencies on how to create respectful, engaging, and inclusive workplaces. She worked to assist with employee belonging, engagement, organizational development and change management initiatives across various enterprises. She has developed customized training and curriculum on DEl topics,taught for years as a criminal/social justice professor and often served as a curriculum reviewer and developer for the Federal law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and US State Department for various state, local and international police courses and audiences. Often emphasis was placed on civil rights, ethics, cultural competency concerns on how those materials were presented. She is a certified mediator,and an executive coach and has worked with corporate,and public agencies to resolve matters in the workplace that had a nexus with inequitable treatment based upon race,gender, disability, and other protections.
Marcia served as general counsel for the National Organization of Black law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and provided guidance on a gamut of enforcement, DEl and social justice matters. She has served on law enforcement related committees to include the International Chiefs of Police {IACP) for years committed to ethics,civil rights and equity and has helped to develop strategies, national policies, and procedures and mechanisms for building diverse,inclusive,and equitable organizations. She also served as an Ombudsperson on Capitol Hill and collaborated with human resources,legal,compliance, and organizational leaders across the Capitol to address and resolve concerns with policies,process, and procedures, often overlapping with perceptions of unfair and inequitable treatment.
Marcia has conducted assessments and provided technical as istance for police departments to include Baltimore,Denver,Boulder, and louisville to name a few. She is a EEOC certified workplace investigator and has conducted fact finding on administrative matters,she also serves as a federal hearing officer within the Department of Justice. Marcia has taught others how to conduct impact and analysis of equity concerns while creating strategies and policies to utilize metrics and benchmarking for increasing diversity in the workplace. She has also served as a keynote speaker and often speaks at national conferences on law enforcement, and civil rights related topics.

She stands at the helm of the nation’s 4th largest police department, which employs more than 6500 sworn officers and 800 civilians who work to help make Philadelphia a safer city. Commissioner Outlaw is the first African-American woman to lead the Philadelphia Police Department. Prior to taking the helm as Philadelphia’s top law enforcement officer, Outlaw was the Chief of Portland, Oregon’s Bureau of Police. She was the first African American woman to hold that post. Commissioner Outlaw began her law enforcement career in Oakland, California where she spent 20 years in service with the Oakland Police Department.
Commissioner Outlaw’s TEDx Talk – Humanity in Authority – dispels the belief that the two concepts are contrary in nature and explains how the two concepts can, and should, co-exist. She has also presented on various topics including Race and Policing, Women in Law Enforcement, De-escalation and Investigation of Use of Force, Building Community Relationships after Controversy, and Video Recording in Policing and Early Intervention Systems. She has been asked to provide technical assistance in areas of police accountability and risk management.

Before coming to Baltimore, Commissioner Harrison served the New Orleans Police Department for nearly three decades. He joined the NOPD in 1991 and ascended steadily through the ranks. He served in supervisory assignments as an Assistant Commander and Commander of a patrol District and the Specialized Investigations Division of the Public Integrity Bureau. He was appointed to Superintendent in 2014 and led the Department for over four years.
Commissioner Harrison has been instrumental in the development, implementation and assessment of community policing programs that have led to demonstrably increased partnership and collaboration. Moreover, he is skilled at moving progressive law enforcement bills forward through legislature and effectuating evidence-based crime fighting strategies, many of which assisted in tangible crime reductions.

Sheriff Clayton leads an organization of approximately 420 staff, serving a population of over 358,000, covering a 720-square mile geographical area.
During his career with the Sheriff’s Office, Jerry served as a front-line Corrections Officer, Deputy Sheriff and command officer. He was also appointed to the following executive positions; Corrections Commander, Police Services Commander and SWAT Team Commander).
Jerry has been a certified criminal justice trainer and instructor for more than twenty-five years. He has provided training, and consulting services to a variety of private and public-sector clients, including the United States Department of Justice, the National Sheriff’s Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

He oversees all aspects of Northeastern’s public safety division, including a comprehensive program of services, such as police, security, crime prevention, fire safety, and emergency medical services. Davis also ensures the university is prepared to address safety concerns for Northeastern students studying and working across the globe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in organizational management from Concordia University.

Deitle focuses on civil rights, specifically the intersection of law enforcement, hate crimes, investigations, and outreach. Prior to joining Facebook, she served as the Director of Civil Rights Reform at the Matthew Shepard Foundation for four years and led their national hate crime enforcement training program for law enforcement officers and prosecutors.
In 2017, Deitle retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after serving for 22 years specializing in civil rights, particularly in the fields of hate crimes, police abuse and misconduct, community outreach, and victims’ rights. She spent ten years in the New York Division working in the Civil Rights Program and served as the lead investigative agent for many high-profile police brutality cases involving the New York City Police Department including the fatal shootings of Amadou Diallo and the sexual assault of Abner Louima.

She has been working with the ABLE Project since its inception, as a member of several working groups and as a consultant managing ABLE’s day-to-day affairs.
In her current role, she oversees the ABLE Project, which introduces the principles and skills of active bystandership to law enforcement agencies across the United States and Canada. Lisa manages all aspects of the program, including training, implementation, evaluation, and research

She joins the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) as the Executive Director, where she sets the strategic direction for OSAC’s private/public engagement. Ellen previously served as the Security Advisor to the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart, Germany. There, Ms. Tannor acted as a key interlocutor among DSS, EUCOM and U.S. Diplomatic missions across Europe, synchronizing planning, operations, and crisis response efforts. Previously, Ellen Tannor was the Branch Chief for Counterintelligence Policy, focusing on mitigating threats by foreign intelligence services against U.S. diplomatic personnel. She served as the Congressional Affairs Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Diplomatic Security; the Management Officer and acting Deputy Chief of Mission in Luanda, Angola; and on the Department of Justice’s International Organized Crime Task Force. She was the Regional Security Officer at U.S. Embassy Djibouti, and Assistant Regional Security Officer in Algiers as it normalized operations, following more than a decade of violent civil unrest. Ellen Tannor also served on Secretary of State Colin Powell’s security detail in the lead-up to the Iraq War from 2003-2004. Ellen Tannor was selected as the Department of State’s 2017/2018 International Women’s Leadership Fellow, completing executive leadership training at Harvard Business School and INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France. She has also received multiple Department Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards. Ellen Tannor is married with four children and her husband is also a Diplomatic Security Supervisory Special Agent. She holds a BA in Marketing from Texas Wesleyan University and an MBA in International Business from the University of Baltimore.

In this role as Chief of Staff for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), he is the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary and assists in the management of the largest Bureau in the State Department and the most widely represented law enforcement agency in the world.
Prior to this assignment, Mr. Casselle served as the Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council; Executive Office of the President at The White House. He was responsible for the global- threats portfolio and assuring that the National Security Advisor and senior White House leadership up to the President of the United States were briefed on imminent national security threats to the United States homeland and overseas facilities.
Mr. Casselle joined the DSS as a special agent in 2003. Over the course of his career, he has served in numerous domestic and overseas assignments and worked in more than 70 countries. Mr. Casselle began his career at the New York Field Office. He has served at the State Department’s Operations Center, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s Protective Detail and was the Branch Chief for Overseas Protective Operations with responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere. He also served as the Deputy Director for Counterintelligence at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).
Overseas Mr. Casselle has served at U.S. Embassies in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Kabul, Afghanistan; Baghdad, Iraq and as the Senior Regional Security Officer, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge’ d affaires at U.S. Embassy Belmopan, Belize. While serving in Belize, Mr. Casselle’s office was responsible for the location, capture and repatriation of more than 30 international fugitives to the United States.
Mr. Casselle was popularly elected to the Governing Board of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) in 2014 where he represented the United States Foreign Service’s interests to Congress and the American public. He was reelected in 2016.
Mr. Casselle is an individual recipient of numerous Department of State Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards.
Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Casselle served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. Mr. Casselle is a graduate of Missouri Military Academy and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Hampton University and a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy and Resources from the Dwight D. Eisenhower School.

With more than nineteen years of service with the Department, Ms. Brown Cleveland most recently served as the served as the Division Chief f or Project Coordination Division in the Countermeasures Directorate. Her prior assignments include Deputy Regional Director f or Af rica in the High Threat Programs Directorate, Deputy Regional Security Of f icer in Nairobi, Kenya, and Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in the San Francisco Field Of f ice. She also served on the protective detail f or Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in the New York Field Of f ice and at U.S. embassies in Riyadh, Beirut, and Baghdad.
Ms. Brown Cleveland holds a Bachelor of Arts in History f rom Oakwood University, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy f rom the National War College.

During 1982, Dr. McMillan was credentialed a Special Agent with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Dr. McMillan served on active duty in this capacity until his separation from active duty and entering the Air Force Reserves in 1987. Dr. McMillan retired from the Air Force Reserves in February 2000.
In September 1987, Dr. McMillan began employment with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service where he held a variety of field and Headquarters positions culminating in his selection as the Special Agent in Charge, Mid-Atlantic Field Office. In September 2006, Dr. McMillan received his appointment in the Senior Executive Service and was appointed the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Inspector General. Additionally, Dr. McMillan served on the Senior Executive Service Qualification Review Board for 5 consecutive years. Dr. McMillan retired from federal service in March 2018 with over 41 years of public service.
Dr. McMillan received a BA in Criminal Justice, from Wilmington College, a MA in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Crime in Commerce from The George Washington University, a MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College, and his PhD. in Criminal Justice from Walden University. Dr. McMillan is also a graduate of the Air War College non-resident program and the Federal Executive Institute.
Dr. McMillan is a Senior Fellow with the Polarities of Democracy Institute, a Contributing Faculty member in the Walden University School of Criminal Justice, a Past National President for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, a member ofthe International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Executive Research Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. Dr. McMillan is married with two daughters and resides in Bowie, MD

Her expertise extends to Community Violence Intervention and Prevention (CVIP) as well as Terrorism topical areas. Basia also leads a scientific, collaborative effort in developing NIJ Forensic Intelligence Framework to assist local and state law enforcement agencies in integrating forensic crime lab data into the criminal investigation and analysis process to advance crime prevention. Basia is a recipient of the NIJ Special Act Award in recognition of her leadership in developing the collaborative research project on interviewing incarcerated mass shooters with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit as well as the Assistant Attorney General Award for outstanding teamwork and innovation for her involvement in developing and implementing OJP’s CVIP Initiative. During her time with NIJ, Basia authored several articles on topics related to her areas of expertise.

She is also NIJ’s point of contact for activities pertaining to the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. In addition, Dr. Moore provides scientific oversight for CrimeSolutions.gov and manages the W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Justice Systems, and NIJ’s Research Assistantship program. In addition, Dr. Moore provides support for other NIJ programs including Violence Against Women and Family Violence Research and Evaluation.

Prior to his work at CPE, Hans Menos served as the Executive Director of the Police Advisory Commission for the City of Philadelphia. In this role, Hans led a team of investigators and policy analysts who sought to improve racial equity, transparency and accountability by reviewing the policy, practice, and customs of the Philadelphia Police Department. Throughout his career, Hans has worked with a variety of vulnerable populations in settings that require crisis intervention, policy analysis, and clinical skills. These populations include marginalized youth, recent immigrants, victims of domestic violence, victims of police misconduct, and families in crisis. Hans’ work is guided by a passion for human rights and social justice in the criminal justice system. Hans holds a PhD in Social Policy and an MSW, both from Fordham University in New York City.

Before joining The Center for Policing Equity (CPE), he served over 30 years with the Norfolk Police Department,before retiring April 2020. He has extensive experience in the Field Operations and Administrative Service Bureaus, the last six years of his time with the NPD he served as a special assistant to the Chief in charge of special projects, research and data analysis. His own academic work focuses on southern politics, healthcare reform and network governance. His work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Politics and Policy, Politics and the Life Sciences, and Police Chief. He also co-authored a book State Politics and the Affordable Care Act: Choices and Decisions (Routledge).

He received his doctorate, specializing in developmental psychology and quantitative methods, from the University of California, Irvine. A developmental psychologist conducting research at the intersection of psychology, law, public policy, and criminology, Fine’s research broadly focuses on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice. His current work centers on two areas: 1) how youth develop their perceptions of law enforcement, the law, and the justice system, paying particular attention to developmental trends and racial-ethnic differences; and 2) how experiences with the juvenile justice system affect youth outcomes and disparities. He is the PI of the Youth Justice Lab

Lorraine has 17 years of service with NYPD and leads community and school youth services, including planning, organizing, developing and directing youth programs for the Borough of Staten Island and Brooklyn. Lorraine recently worked with Deputy Commissioner Parker at Community Partnerships located at 1 Police Plaza. In her current position she supports the Youth Coordination Officers (YCO). Lorraine provides the YCO’S with information on Youth Stat, Youth Victims and researches Youth programs that can help young people get on the right path. Lorraine was the founding LE partner and led the pilot and subsequent years of Team Kids Programming at PS149. Lorraine is a passionate advocate for youth, and leads presentations for community organizations, and schools, on the topic of the criminal justice system regarding Gangs, Internet Safety and Anti-Bullying.

I have spent 20 wonderful years as a teacher, instructional support staff member and building level administrator. These past educational experiences have provided me with a deep understanding and appreciation of the importance of fostering a culture and climate for children that is based on maximizing students' social, emotional and academic growth. Our staff is student-centered, caring, and dedicated to meeting the unique academic needs of the children in order to promote success for all of our students. The P.S. 149 family is committed to providing each child with the opportunity to learn in a happy environment. We sincerely believe that home and school are a partnership, and must work closely together with community partners for the benefit of our scholars. Each scholar's academic and social emotional success is anchored to the home-school-community partnership.

Julie’s vision for youth is best illustrated in the power of the empirically validated Team Kids Challenge (TKC) Program; a 5-week, school-based youth empowerment, prevention, and mentorship program that is implemented in schools from Compton (CA) to Brooklyn (NY). The TKC is changing lives and empowering youth and communities to create sustainable and positive change. The TKC is proven to strengthen youth thriving and protective factors, while building early trusting and respectful relationships between youth and police. Articles highlighting the powerful results of a recent randomized control study in Los Angeles and New York City have been published in the American Psychological Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, and in other top academic journals. Julie is a graduate of the University of Southern California where she majored in communications. Julie’s leadership has been recognized by the California Peace Officers Association, by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and by the Orange County Business Journal as one of the first nonprofit leaders to receive the Women in Business Award.

He directs DIIS activities to provide analysis and related products to understand terror, intelligence, cyber, and criminal threats to the Department of the Navy (DON) and meet priority intelligence requirements. He also oversees DIIS collection, analysis, exploitation, and sharing of criminal, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism information to support NCIS investigations and operations.
SA Brown served as the first NCIS Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for Enterprise Risk Management (2020-2021). He established the NCIS Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), the NCIS Enterprise Risk Management program, including execution of the NCIS Business Operations Plan. He also modernized the agency’s Business Analytics Division by expanding the use of data visualization tools to inform strategic decisions.
SA Brown served previously the first Special Agent-in-Charge of the NCIS Technical Services Field Office (2018-2020). He established the field office and led its delivery of specialized, offensive and defensive, technology-based solutions to enable NCIS law enforcement and counterintelligence operations by identifying persons of interest, collecting evidence, collecting intelligence, and ensuring the technical integrity of DON critical infrastructure.
SA Brown was formerly the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of the NCIS Office of Special Projects (OSP) (2016-2018), where he was responsible for the management and operational direction of tier one national security investigations, significant laws of armed conflict, and high visibility criminal investigations to protect DON secrets worldwide. During his tenure, OSP was recognized for several high impact counterintelligence investigations.
SA Brown entered the agent’s supervisory ranks in 2007, when he was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and assumed responsibility for NCIS Technical Surveillance Operations worldwide. He was assigned as the Supervisory Special Agent for NCIS offices in the Republic of Korea in 2010. He then transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece in 2013. As the Force Protection Attaché, he led the provision of counterintelligence support to force protection for in-transit Department of Defense forces.
SA Brown began his agency career with the NCIS Resident Agency in Bethesda, MD in 2001. He transferred to Norfolk, VA for duty as the Staff Counterintelligence Officer (SCIO) for Expeditionary Strike Group 6 (ESG6) in 2004, and successfully deployed to Europe and the Middle East in 2005. He then reported for duty as the Assistant Personal Security Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, with the former Protective Service Operations Department. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Certificate in Public Administration and Policy.

Ms. Payne has served three offices and over 50 cases NCIS with dedication and excellence since 2008. In her role as an intelligence specialist for the Office of Special Projects (OSP) Ms. Payne served as a Team Leader for the for the Special Surveillance Team (SST), where she performed covert physical surveillance in support of highly visible national security espionage investigations. Following her assignment with the OSP SST, she transitioned in her career to an Intelligence Specialist with the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) program. In this role, she was the first dedicated DOD civilian TSCM analyst, and she laid the foundation that analysts are still using to this day. In 2019, Ms. Payne returned to OSP as a counterintelligence analyst where she currently provides tactical and evidentiary analytic support contributing to the successful resolution of OSP’s high-profile national security espionage investigations. Ms. Payne earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Administration of Justice from Rutgers University and a Master of Science in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University. She completed the Supervisor Leadership Certificate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Law Enforcement Executive Development Association. She was selected to a joint duty assignment with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering program serving at the National Counterintelligence Task Force in 2022.