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GREETINGS ATAP THREAT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE ATTENDEES, On behalf of the ATAP Board of Directors and Conference Committee, the Los Angeles Police Department Threat Management Unit, and our conference sponsors, welcome to our 29th Annual Threat Management Conference.

Since the February 2018 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have seen a tectonic shift in the field of threat assessment and management. Several states have passed legislation mandating K-12 threat assessment programs, and more school districts have taken the initiative to create their own programs. Statewide threat assessment programs have been established in North Carolina and Florida. The STOP School Violence Act grant funds are now being awarded.

Unfortunately, our threat assessment and management work is still desperately needed. Since last year’s conference, there have been a surge of attacks across a wide variety of targets. There were current and former employees attacking their workplaces: a municipal building in Virginia Beach, a Ford dealership in Morgan Hill, a Walmart in Southaven, and the Henry Pratt facility in Aurora. There were current and former students attacking schools/universities: the STEM School in Highlands Park and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. There were religious extremism attacks: the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Chabad in Poway, mosques in Christchurch, and a family crossing a street in Sunnyvale. There were attacks on public spaces: a courthouse in Dallas, a yoga studio in Tallahassee, the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

With the increasing numbers of attacks, ATAP appreciates the critical and timely need to get threat assessment and management into our workplaces, schools/universities, houses of worship, and communities. We have continued to recruit professionals who now find themselves tasked with conducting threat assessments into the ATAP family. We continue to build a base in Philadelphia, holding the second Joint Threat Assessment Training there. We have expanded our footprints with ATAP Chapters holding training events in new cities, including San Antonio, Austin, Rochester, and Bozeman. We continue to partner fullforce with Congressman Brian Babin to bring threat assessment into communities across the United States by passing the Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act (TAPS Act, H.R. 838, S. 265), which currently has 112 Cosponsors and 51 endorsing organizations. As the need for threat assessment and management grows, ATAP will continue to lead the field, providing topnotch training, networking, and partnerships in casework.

As I approach the end of my first term as ATAP’s President, I would like to take time during this conference to personally thank you all for the opportunity to serve this great association. ATAP is about family. The relationships you build during this week’s Threat Management Conference will become the future partnerships that you will rely on to work cases, participate in training, and conduct programmatic benchmarking. Please take time to introduce yourself to the people around you during the conference sessions and networking events. Carry those relationships with you after the conference ends and onto ATAP Workplace. And if you’re not a member and meet our membership criteria, please consider joining our ATAP family.

Thanks for all you do to help keep people safe,

Dr. Russell Palarea Association President

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FULL CONFERENCE AGENDA *American Psychological Association (APA) Credits The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center (UNPPC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UNPPC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. *Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Credits MCLE credit provided by the Office of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer

Monday, August 12 5:00-7:00PM

Registration

Tuesday, August 13

All Morning Sessions will take place in the Grand Ballroom 7:00-11:00AM

Registration

7:00-8:00AM

Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00AM

Welcoming Remarks

9:00-9:15AM

Break

9:15-10:30AM The Pre-Attack Behaviors of the Las Vegas Shooter: Key Findings from the FBI BAU’s Expert Panel John Wyman, Unit Chief, Behavioral Analysis Unit 1, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Greg

Saathoff, M.D., BAU Contract Psychiatrist, Professor-University of Virginia,

School of Medicine; and Andre Simons, Supervisory Special Agent, Behavioral Analysis Unit 1,

Federal Bureau of Investigation (retired) 10:30-10:45AM

Break

10:45AM -12:00PM My Journey Through Madness: Challenging the Narrative of Mental Illness

and Violence from an Inside Perspective Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law 12:00-1:30PM Lunch South Exhibit Hall, Sponsored By Lockheed Martin

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Breakout Sessions Thank you to our Track Sponsors!

Core Competency Sponsored by Track II Sponsored by 1:30-2:30PM

Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Introduction to the Certified Threat Manager (CTM) - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office, and Chuck Tobin, CTM, AT-RISK International

Track I – Grand Ballroom

The Krugersdorp High School Sword Attack: South Africa’s First Attempted School Mass Murder – Gerard Labuschagne, Ph.D., LLB, and Bronwynn Stollarz, M.A., L&S Threat Management

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3

From Ideation to Action: The Pathway to Developing a State-Wide Behavioral Threat

Assessment Unit (BeTA) within the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) – Angel Gray, J.D., MPH; Nicole Jones, Ph.D.; Jody Marks, B.S.; and Earl Sam, M.A., NCSBI 2:30-2:45PM

Break

2:45-3:45PM

Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Gathering and Interpreting Information - Jim Cawood, Ph.D., Factor One

Track I - Grand Ballroom My Patient, My Stalker – Sheridan Ryan, J.D., CTM, Associate Director of Risk Management, Medical College of Wisconsin

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 Achieving Buy-in: Advancing Threat Assessment and Management Teams in Your Agencies, Schools, and Communities – Mark Concordia, Professor, Roberts Wesleyan College

3:45-4:00PM

Break

4:00-5:00PM Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Consultation and Communication- Jim Cawood Ph.D., Factor One

Track I - Grand Ballroom

Preventing School Violence STAT: A Multidisciplinary Approach Integrating Adverse

Childhood Experiences and Other Sources by the San Diego District Attorney’s Office School

Threat Assessment Team (STAT) – Glenn S. Lipson, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Forensic and

Clinical Psychologist, and Andrija Lopez, J.D., Assistant District Attorney, San Diego District Attorney’s Office

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Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 Protection and Care in our Places of Worship: How Grace Chapel is Standing Up a Security & Threat Management Team – Bryan Flannery, President, Foresight Security Consulting, and Matt Taylor, Campus Pastor, Grace Chapel

5:30-9:00PM

Networking Reception Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen, Sponsored by

Wednesday, August 14

All Morning Sessions will take place in the Grand Ballroom 7:00-8:00AM Continental Breakfast – South Exhibit Hall Hosted by 8:00-9:00AM Reaching for Hope and Understanding after Columbine Sue Klebold 9:00-9:15AM

Break

9:15-10:30AM And the Threats Keep Coming John McDonald, Executive Director, Department of Public Safety, Jefferson County School

District, Colorado( Jeffco Schools) 10:30-10:45AM

Break

10:45AM-12:00PM Investigating the “Columbine Effect”: How the 1999 High School Tragedy Influences

Attackers 20 Years Later Mark Follman, National Affairs Editor, Mother Jones 12:00-1:30PM Lunch - South Exhibit Hall Sponsored by

Breakout Sessions Thank you to our Track Sponsors!

Core Competency – Sponsored by Track II – Sponsored by 1:30-2:30PM

Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 1 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Ron Schouten, M.D., J.D., CTM, Harvard Medical School

Track I - Grand Ballroom

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Problem Solving with Subjects as a Threat Management Strategy – Russell Palarea, Ph.D., Consulting Operational Psychologist and Kendall Donahue,

Supervisory Special Agent, U.S. Department of State, Office of Protective Intelligence

Investigations, Bureau of Diplomatic Security

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3

An Anonymous Threat of Potential Sexual Violence - Rudy Lorber, Ph.D., ABPP, CTM, Puget

Sound Neuropsychological Services, Inc., and Rande Christiansen, CTM, Detective, Seattle Police Department 9

2:30-2:45PM Break Hosted by Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 2 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Ron Schouten M.D., J.D., CTM, Harvard Medical School

2:45-3:45PM

Track I - Grand Ballroom

Improving Outcomes by Engaging Behavioral Health Providers in Threat Management - Kirk A. B. Newring, Ph.D., CTM, Forensic Behavioral Health, and Karie Gibson,

Psy.D., Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 Rage Against the Machine: A Case Study of Potential Workplace Violence - Michelle Calhoun, M.A., CTM, Workplace Violence Program Manager, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services; Lieutenant Francis P. Rego, Miami-Dade Police Department; and Stephen G. White, Ph.D., President and Consulting Psychologist, Work Trauma Services, Inc.

3:45-4:00PM

Break

4:00-5:00PM

Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 3 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Ron Schouten M.D., J.D.,CTM, Harvard Medical School

Track I - Grand Ballroom

Delusions and Danger: Managing Threatening Behavior in Persons with Mental Illness - Vicki L. King, Assistant Chief of Police, University of Texas-Houston, and Georgia Thomas,

M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Employee Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center

5:15-6:00PM

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 From Threat Manager to Target: A Case Study – Daniel Graney, Ed.D., CTM, Dean of Students, University of Rhode Island

Community Meetings

Law Enforcement Community – Grand Ballroom

Education Community - Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3

Corporate Community – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4

6:00-10:00PM Hospitality Suite –11th Floor of the Adventure Tower, Sponsored by

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Thursday, August 15

All Morning Sessions will take place in the Grand Ballroom 7:00-8:00AM

Continental Breakfast - South Exhibit Hall, Hosted by

8:00-9:15AM Assessing the Terrorist Threat from the Extreme Right: New TRAP-18 Research and a

Retrospective Look at the Oklahoma City Bombing J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., A Forensic Psychological Corporation 9:15-9:30AM

Break

9:30-10:45AM Providing Alternatives to Hinder Extremism: the LAPD P.A.T.H.E. Program Brian Bixler, OIC-Crisis Response Support Section, and Charles Dempsey, OIC-Mental

Evaluation Unit, Los Angeles Police Department 10:45-11:00AM

Break

11:00AM-12:00PM Recent Trends in Right-Wing Extremism Pete Simi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Chapman University 12:00-1:30PM

Lunch - South Exhibit Hall – Sponsored By

Breakout Sessions Thank you to our Track Sponsors!

Core Competency – Sponsored by Track II – Sponsored by 1:30-2:30PM Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4 Threat Assessment: Management Principles and Practices: Part I - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM,

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and William Zimmerman, CTM, Sigma Threat Management Associates

Track I - Grand Ballroom Managing the Department of Defense’s Violent Insider Threats: Looking Beyond the Gates – Joel Brush, Requirements and Process Manager and Robert Gallagher, Ph.D., CTM; Department of Defense Insider Threat Management & Analysis Center (DITMAC)

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3

Ransomware, Extortions, and Blackmail: New Challenges for Corporate Security - Shawn VanSlyke, Principal, Control Risks and Andre Simons, Supervisory Special

Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit (retired) 2:30-2:45PM

Break

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2:45-3:45PM Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4

Threat Assessment: Management Principles and Practices: Part 2 - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM,

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and William Zimmerman, CTM, Sigma Threat Management Associates

Track I - Grand Ballroom Weeding Out the Dangers of the New High Times: Citywide Threat Assessment Team (CTAT) Tackles Legal Cannabis - Cat Packer, Executive Director, Los Angeles Dept. of Cannabis Regulation; Hugo S. Rossitter, J.D., Deputy City Attorney-Los Angeles; and Maura Kane McAuliffe, Psy.D., Medical Services Division, City of Los Angeles

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 Effects of Trauma & Betrayal and Enhancing Care for the Sentinels - Gene Deisinger, Ph.D., President, Deisinger Consulting; Lynn Van Male, Ph.D., US Department of Veterans Affairs; and Jeffrey Cugno, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles

3:45-4:00PM

Break

4:00-5:00PM Core Competency – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 1 & 4

Threat Assessment: Management Principles and Practices: Part 3 - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM,

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and William Zimmerman, CTM, Sigma Threat Management Associates

Track I - Grand Ballroom

The Evolution of a Workplace Violence Prevention Program – Chris Connors, Global Staff Director-Corporate Security, FedEx

Track II – Magic Kingdom Ballroom 2 & 3 More Than Student Issues: The Range of Threats and K-12 Education – Joe Wright, Director of Security, Lincoln Public Schools

5:30-7:00PM

6:00-10:00PM

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Annual Meeting/Board of Directors Meeting – ATAP Members Welcome!

Sleeping Beauty Pavilion Hospitality Suite - 11th Floor of the Adventure Tower Sponsored by

Friday, August 16

All Morning Sessions will take place in the Grand Ballroom 7:00-8:00AM

Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:15AM School Violence: Case Study Based Final Analysis Kris Mohandie, Ph.D., ABPP; Leonard C. Herr, Litigation Attorney, Herr Pedersen and

Berglund, LLP and Maeve J. Fox, Senior Deputy District Attorney, Ventura County 9:15-9:30AM

Break

9:30-10:45AM Bomber Profiling and Threat Assessment Ron Tunkel, Supervisory Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (retired) 10:45-11:45AM From “Red Pill” to “Incels”: Assessment Issues in the Growing Realm of Gender-

Based Targeted Violence Risk Philip Saragoza, M.D., Forensic Psychiatrist 11:45-12:00PM

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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday, August 13 The Pre-Attack Behaviors of the Las Vegas Shooter: Key Findings from the FBI BAU’s Expert Panel – John Wyman, Unit Chief, Behavioral Analysis Unit 1, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Greg Saathoff, M.D., BAU Contract Psychiatrist, Professor-University of Virginia, School of Medicine; and Andre Simons, Supervisory Special Agent, Behavioral Analysis Unit 1, Federal Bureau of Investigation (retired) On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting attack in American history, killing 58 concertgoers and wounding hundreds more at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Immediately following this shooting, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit convened a panel of internal and external experts to explore Paddock’s pre-attack behaviors and to study the potential motives behind the attack. Over 12 months, the panel carefully examined voluminous evidence and conducted interviews with Paddock’s family members to better understand his meticulous preparation efforts and the psychological influences that drove Paddock to violence. This presentation will not focus on the mechanics of the attack itself, an aspect thoroughly covered during the 2018 TMC. Instead, the presenters will highlight Paddock’s developmental history, stressors, concerning behaviors, deterioration in functioning, strategic target selection, and dramatic weapons accumulation that occurred in the year preceding his attack.

My Journey through Madness: Challenging the Narrative of Mental Illness and Violence from an Inside Perspective - Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D., USC Gould School of Law This presentation will provide a brief overview of the presenter’s mental illness, the onset, diagnosis and what it is like living with Schizophrenia. Dr. Saks will discuss how stigmas associated with serious mental illness, and the association with violence, can further victimize the population. This presentation will further discuss ways that Law Enforcement, Corporate Security, and Institutes of Higher Education can work within individuals suffering from serious mental illness in an understanding and compassionate manner.

Introduction to CTM- Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office and Chuck Tobin, CTM, AT-RISK International This session will review the history and creation of the Certified Threat Manager (CTM) examination, cover general topic areas, source material, question format, scoring criteria and suggestions for preparing to take the exam.

The Krugersdorp High School Sword Attack: South Africa’s First Attempted School Mass Murder – Gerard Labuschagne, Ph.D., LLB and Bronwynn Stollarz, MA, L&S Threat Management This case-study analyses South Africa’s first attempted school mass murder, that took place in 2008 at the Nic Deiderichs High School in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. The offender was a final year student at the school. On the day of the incident he took three swords to school, and home-made masks mimicking the American band Slipknot. Shortly before the school day began he attacked and killed one student, then proceeded to attack and injure another student and two general labourers at the school. The incident had many of the pre-cursors to other mass school violence incidents noted internationally, particularly leakage prior to the incident and pre-planning, with numerous students knowing of his intention. This case study analyses this incident in relation to existing research on lethal school violence. Insights are based on consultations with the prosecutors, mental health experts who assessed the offender pre-trial and during his subsequent incarceration, insight into the police and court case files, and one of the author’s own risk assessment of the offender for parole purposes in 2019.

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From Ideation to Action: The Pathway to Developing a State-Wide Behavioral Threat Assessment Unit (BeTA) within the Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) - Angel Gray, J.D., MPH; Nicole Jones, Ph.D.; Jody Marks, B.S., and Earl Sam, M.A., North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation-Behavioral Threat Assessment Unit Developing and implementing a state-wide law enforcement threat assessment unit side-by-side with more traditional approaches to policing is an ambitious undertaking. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation began the process of building its Behavioral Threat Assessment (BeTA) Unit in 2018 with the help of its state, local and university partners. The mission of the BeTA Unit is to identify, investigate, evaluate, and manage person(s) of concern within North Carolina who are recognized as having motive and means to develop, or act on an opportunity to commit, a targeted attack. The primary purpose of this presentation will be to provide an overview on how one law enforcement agency designed, developed, and implemented a multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment unit (BeTA) within current legal parameters and agency structure. This presentation will include details on how our organization: designed the organizational structure and workflow process; identifies, investigates, assesses and manages threat assessment cases; works with our local law enforcement partners and other key stakeholders in the threat assessment process; and, how the threat assessment process is applied in practice using a BeTA case example. In addition, the presentation will cover lessons learned from the initial launch of the unit and the challenges we have identified moving forward.

Gathering and Interpreting Information - Jim Cawood, Ph.D., Factor One This brief lecture course will explore the specific capabilities that were identified in the Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSAs) work in development of the Certified Threat Manager (CTM) certification program. These capabilities are described as detail the initial complaint; interviewing; understand how legal issues relate to the case, able to conduct a background investigation; understand how ethics relate to information gathering; documentation and record keeping; information

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sharing; identify and access relevant records; conduct research to Inform the case; possess interpersonal skills needed to access sources of information; know how and when to use assessment instruments; understand basic forensic evidence concepts; understand the ATAP model of violence risk assessment guidelines; able to link information to behaviors and risk; and how to evaluate credibility of information The purpose of the course is to provide insight to individuals interested in the field of threat assessment and management, as well as those that are preparing to take the CTM exam, concerning how these various capabilities might be demonstrated in the work.

My Patient, My Stalker - Sheridan Ryan, J.D., CTM, Associate Director of Risk Management, Medical College of Wisconsin This session is a detailed case study that begins April 12, 2013 with a call from our employee, a child psychologist: “I’d like to talk to you about my patient, who’s become my stalker . . . “ Over the next several years, there are many decision points -- should we: dismiss him from treatment? Involve law enforcement? Seek a restraining order? Talk to his parents? Talk to him? Along the way, we encounter well-meaning but unhelpful victim influences, resistance to threat management strategies, and the potential for the development of a professional duty of loyalty conflict. We safely manage each situation as it arises, yet nothing prepares us for what we learn nearly three years after that initial call was placed.

Achieving Buy-in: Advancing Threat Assessment and Management Teams in Your Agencies, Schools, and Communities - Mark Concordia, Professor, Roberts Wesleyan College Achieving buy-in for the adoption of threat assessment and management team concepts in an area unfamiliar with best practices and recommendations can be challenging for the threat assessment professional. This presentation will include recommendations and advice drawn for the presenter’s personal experiences with achieving cross systems buy-in for the creation of threat assessment and management teams in K-12, Higher Education, and the boarder public safety and mental health communities.

Consultation and Communication - Jim Cawood Ph.D., enforcement, psychiatric response teams, and the schools Factor One involved helped create this team. What was further discovered later was a cache of weapons and a plan This brief lecture course will explore the specific capabilities that were identified in the Knowledge, Skills, aimed at exceeding the death toll at Sandy Hook. In the and Attitudes (KSAs) work in development of the Certified presentation, we will pick up from where we left off in 2015; review the computer discovery and the creation Threat Manager (CTM) certification program. These of the first shooter persona that obtained over 12 million capabilities are described as awareness in interviewing views raising the money for the purchasing of weapons. and gathering information; Ability to communicate This case will provide an opportunity to review Adverse risk appropriately and ability to share information Childhood Experiences research and its application and for effective consulting; report documentation and limitations to threat assessment. report writing; knowing the culture and connecting with individual experiences; Information sharing (not just what you share, but when and how and to whom, etc.); Victim management (what can you tell the victim, how much, etc.);and Manage Internal Communications; Communication to co-workers; collaterals. The purpose of the course is to provide insight lo individuals interested in the field of threat assessment and management, as well as those that are preparing to take the CTM exam, concerning how these various capabilities might be demonstrated in the work.

Protection and Care in our Places of Worship: How Grace Chapel is Standing Up a Security & Threat Management Team - Bryan Flannery, President, Foresight Security Consulting and Matt Taylor, Campus Pastor, Grace Chapel

Violence in our places of worship is on the rise. Whether the cause domestic violence, religious radicalization, or affiliation with an extremist group, these attacks and attackers need to be stopped. To address today’s concerns of safety and security in houses of worship, Preventing School Violence STAT: A Multidisciplinary Grace Chapel in Wilsonville, Oregon is working to stand Approach Integrating Adverse Childhood up a security and threat management team within their Experiences and Other Sources by the San Diego ministry. Using an in-house multi-disciplinary approach District Attorney’s Office, School Threat Assessment to address situations of concern, and by bringing in Team - Glenn S. Lipson, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Forensic and a consultant not unfamiliar to the culture of Houses of Clinical Psychologist and Andrija Lopez, J.D., Assistant Worship, better communication, safety, and pastoral District Attorney, San Diego District Attorney’s Office care have been the bi-product of what we term our “Special Resource Team”. Campus Pastor Matt Taylor This presentation focuses on the work of the School and Security Consultant Bryan Flannery will speak to Threat Assessment Team (STAT). The case generated the overcoming the challenges of setting up such a team, and need for this team, in its early stages, was presented use specific examples of the quantifiable successes thus and well received at the Annual ATAP conference far. back in 2015. Coordinating computer forensics, law

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Wednesday, August 14 Reaching for Hope and Understanding after Columbine - Sue Klebold This presentation will provide a brief overview of the tragedy and its immediate and long-term effects on the presenter’s family and the community. Susan will share observations about her son’s mindset and behaviors from his childhood, through high school, and in the months/weeks/days prior to his death. In examining the community support systems that surrounded her son at the time of his death, she will illustrate how we all missed opportunities to intervene. In conclusion, she will emphasize the role of suicide prevention in mass violence prevention and provide tools for better communication.

Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 1 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Ron Schouten, M.D., J.D., CTM, Harvard Medical School This presentation is part one of three and will cover the legal, criminal and civil law issues that can arise in threat assessment.

Getting Ahead of the Curve: Problem Solving with Subjects as a Threat Management Strategy – Russell Palarea, Ph.D., Consulting Operational Psychologist and Kendall Donahue, Supervisory Special Agent, U.S. Department of State Office Protective Intelligence Investigations, Bureau of Diplomatic Security

And the Threats Keep Coming - John McDonald, While the goal of threat management is preventing Executive Director, Department of School Safety, Jefferson violent attacks, the methods used to prevent violence County (CO) School District vary widely. Law enforcement authorities traditionally use arrest authority, while mental health clinicians Columbine High School is synonymous with school traditionally use problem solving strategies. What shootings. This presentation will provide a detailed happens when you blend the two fields together? look into the threats, mystique, fascination and fixation Diplomatic Security’s Threat Management Program is that happens on a daily basis at the school and the based on a partnership between Special Agents and partnerships with law enforcement that is needed to an Operational Psychologist, infusing psychological maintain the safe school environment at Columbine. strategies into law enforcement investigative capabilities to assess risk and mitigate attacks. One of the techniques Investigating the “Columbine Effect”: How the 1999 effectively used by Diplomatic Security is having their High School Tragedy Influences Attackers 20 Years Later - Mark Follman, National Affairs Editor, Mother Jones Special Agents conduct problem solving with the subjects of their investigations. This strategy inherently does not This presentation will explore how the 1999 tragedy make sense from a law enforcement perspective, since at Columbine High School has influenced numerous subjects often have adversarial attitudes toward law individuals whohave plotted and carried out rampage enforcement. However, Diplomatic Security has used shootings in the two decades since. We will examine relationship building with subjects, problem solving specific case details, news media coverage and strategies, and partnering with the subject’s social circle comments by public officials around shootings, with an to effectively manage subjects’ behavior and prevent eye toward avoiding sensationalism and the spread violence. Dr. Palarea and SSA Donahue will present this of misinformation, and what can be done to possibly threat management strategy and discuss several case help reduce the so-called copycat effect as a factor in examples in which it was successfully used. additional attacks.

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An Anonymous Threat of Potential Sexual Violence - Rudy Lorber, Ph.D., ABPP, CTM, Puget Sound Neuropsychological Services, Inc. and Rande Christiansen, CTM, Detective, Seattle Police Department

that in most threat management endeavors, communitybased mental health providers will be uninformed about threat management when a client appears to be on the pathway to targeted violence. We will review perceived and actual barriers to engaging behavioral health Anonymous threat communication (ATC) cases can be providers in the threat management process, including one of the most challenging situations to investigate for processes and procedures available to the threat threat potential and management of victim safety. This session will present an actual case of a terrorized young manager to engage and enlist the support, cooperation, female that evolved over a 1½ year timespan. Attendees and collaboration of behavioral health providers. We will discuss behavioral health best practices to inform the will receive techniques and insights into key aspects of threat manager in the context of the behavioral health the initial analysis, investigative information gathering, providers’ ethical obligations and constraints. Using and evolving understanding of relevant issues that case examples from targeted violence, we will illustrate occurred over the course of this case. This presentation approaches to improving public safety and client welfare will also describe the assistance that was derived from collaboration with other agencies, both local and federal. through including behavioral health stakeholders in the threat management process.

The case study will take attendees through the threat analysis, including pre- and post- apprehension Rage Against the Machine: A Case Study of psychological factors of the 68-year-old perpetrator, Potential Workplace Violence - Michelle Calhoun, as well as share the actual anonymous communications M.A., CTM, Workplace Violence Program Manager, U.S. and the audio of the interrogation and confession.

Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship & Detective Rande Christiansen will discuss the investigative Immigration Services; Lieutenant Francis P. Rego, Miamitechniques and agency collaborations. Dr. Rudy Lorber Dade Police Department and Stephen G. White, Ph.D., will present the psychological profiling and mental health President and Consulting Psychologist, Work Trauma findings in this case.

Services, Inc. The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers social insurance programs to 67 million qualified or need-based disabled workers, survivors and dependents, and retired workers. A Floridabased administrative law judge was a well-respected employee who decided on federal disability cases, but his troubled personal life included allegations of domestic abuse and interpersonal conflict. His conflicts escalated into a series of events leading to lethal Improving Outcomes by Engaging Behavioral Health Providers in Threat Management - Kirk A. B. risk to the judge’s workplace and personal network.

The presentation will also treat, in retrospect, what Newring, Ph.D., CTM, Forensic Behavioral Health and Karie Gibson, Psy.D., Supervisory Special Agent, Federal alternative interventions a workplace could take to assist a subject at-risk of escalating to violence.

Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 2 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ron Schouten M.D., J.D., CTM, Harvard Medical School This presentation is part two of three and will cover the legal, criminal and civil law issues that can arise in threat assessment.

As most behavioral health service providers are not trained in forensic practice, and fewer still in threat assessment and management, it is reasonable to expect

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Legal Issues in Threat Assessment and Management: Part 3 - Rachel Solov, CTM, San Diego District Attorney’s Office; Supervisory Special Agent Molly Amman, CTM, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ron Schouten M.D., J.D., CTM, Harvard Medical School This presentation is part three of three and will cover the legal, criminal and civil law issues that can arise in threat assessment.

Delusions and Danger: Managing Threatening Behavior in Persons with Mental Illness - Vicki L. King, Assistant Chief of Police, University of Texas-Houston and Georgia Thomas, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Employee Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center Imagine the reaction to an Instagram post that begins: “CEO of @mdandersoncancercenter Houston. I had a dream his kids died after Trump gets voted out in 2020.”

As the rant continues, the author warns that he is coming.

It ends: “April 1st. Your gone. Today’s March 15th. You have 2 weeks to think. Does the devil forgive. Or destroy. your kids too.”

Understanding the person behind the post, including his extensive violent history and descent into psychosis, presents unique threat management challenges. Using this and other relevant case studies taken from a world renowned health care institution, we will explore the intervention strategies implemented by a multidisciplinary team used to identify, assess, and manage threatening behavior exhibited by mental health consumers.

From Threat Manager to Target: A Case Study – Daniel Graney, Ed.D., CTM, Dean of Students, University of Rhode Island What happens when a Threat Manager becomes the target of a subject’s threatening behavior? This presentation will discuss an on-going case from the University of Rhode Island and will show the escalation of threatening behaviors that culminated in the arrest of the subject for cyberstalking the presenter and his family. We will discuss how the subject displayed classic characteristics of an “Injustice Collector”, and explore the effectiveness of the interventions used by University’s Behavioral Intervention Team to manage the case.

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future act(s) of targeted mass violence. The P.A.T.H.E. includes tailored intervention strategies designed to assess, intervene, Assessing the Terrorist Threat from the Extreme and manage the identified behaviors and provide supportive Right: New TRAP- 18 Research and a Retrospective alternatives in order to divert the person, while managing the Look at the Oklahoma City Bombing - J. Reid Meloy, causative factors of the identified behaviors. The P.A.T.H.E. Ph.D., A Forensic Psychological Corporation operates in the noncriminal space and is not designed as a criminal prosecutorial tool. If a criminal act is identified, Seventy-five per cent of terrorist murders in the US in the past decade have been perpetrated by extreme right wing then the case will be referred to the appropriate investigative attackers. Despite the political and commercial media bias entity. This presentation will utilize case studies to detail how P.A.T.H.E. or similar programs can prevent potential acts of toward terrorists being violent jihadists in most cases, law targeted mass violence. enforcement and threat assessors recognize this growing threat of targeted violence from white supremacists and other extreme right groups. There is also an uptick in such Recent Trends in Right-Wing Extremism - Pete Simi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Chapman attacks globally. Charleston, Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, University and Christchurch in New Zealand are recent examples.

In this presentation, Dr. Meloy will review new research This session will focus on the nature and prevalence on the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP- of US-based right-wing extremism. As part of this 18) and its usefulness in assessing risk of violence among presentation, key terms such as “right-wing extremism,” extreme right wing subjects (Challacombe & Lucas, 2018; “white supremacy,” and “alt-right” will be defined to Meloy et al., 2019)—both studies just recently published ensure a common framework. The presentation will also in the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. provide a discussion of various risk factors that increase He will also take a retrospective look at the 1995 a person’s susceptibility to involvement in right-wing Oklahoma City bombing—the largest domestic terrorism extremism as well as the factors that prompt a person’s act in the history of the US, and its perpetrator, Timothy disengagement from this type of extremism. Finally, McVeigh, an extreme right wing nationalist and lone actor several case studies will be highlighted to provide terrorist,-- through the lens of the TRAP-18. Dr. Meloy was firsthand data and help illustrate some of the most salient the consultant to the USG for this case, and is also the findings from the research literature. developer and owner of the TRAP-18.

Threat Assessment: Management Principles and Providing Alternatives to Hinder Extremism: the Practices: Part I - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM, University LAPD P.A.T.H.E. Program - Brian Bixler, OIC-Crisis of Nebraska Lincoln and William Zimmerman, CTM, Response Support Section and Charles Dempsey, OIC Sigma Threat Management Associates Mental Evaluation Unit, Los Angeles Police Department Providing Alternatives to Hinder Extremism (P.A.T.H.E.) is a behavioral risk assessment and management strategy used by the Los Angeles Police Department to identify behaviors, exhibited by a person suffering from a mental illness or mental health crisis, which are indicative of being on a pathway to a

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Session participants will be able to detail relevant terminology and models, describe the application of threat management strategies, apply knowledge of relevant mental health risk factors and management and summarize the key literature in the field of threat assessment and threat management.

Managing the Department of Defense’s Violent Insider Threats: Looking Beyond the Gates - Joel Brush, Requirements and Process Manager, and Robert Gallagher, Ph.D., CTM; DoD Threat Management & Analysis Center (DITMAC)

with unknown cyber offenders who hold information “hostage” in exchange for cryptocurrency. Based on years of threat assessment and hostage negotiation experience, the presenters will offer resolution strategies for the preservation of corporate stability, organizational The Department of Defense (DoD) is a large and complex reputation, and client privacy. organization that consist of 44 distinct agencies and Threat Assessment: Management Principles and organizations. The DoD has spent considerable time Practices: Part 2 - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM, University and resources developing structures and processes of Nebraska Lincoln and William Zimmerman, CTM, to identify and mitigate potential threat from within its Sigma Threat Management Associates ranks. The DoD insider threat professionals have made great strides in identifying and mitigating the potentially Session participants will be able to detail relevant violent members of its workforce. However, it still faces terminology and models, describe the application of significant structural and legal challenges in the ability to threat management strategies, apply knowledge of manage threats once its members leave or are removed relevant mental health risk factors and management from the DoD roles. Utilizing a series of real world case and summarize the key literature in the field of threat studies to include Devin Patrick Kelly (Texas church assessment and threat management. shooter), the authors will detail the processes the DoD currently employs to identify and mitigate internal threats Weeding Out the Dangers of the New High Times: of kinetic violence and explore the concern that some Citywide Threat Assessment Team (CTAT) Tackles internal mitigation efforts may have the unintended side Legal Cannabis - Cat Packer, Executive Director, effect of simply shifting the threat to the public “beyond Los Angeles Dept. of Cannabis Regulation; Hugo S. the gates.”

Rossitter, J.D., Deputy City Attorney-Los Angeles and Maura Kane McAuliffe, Psy.D., Medical Services Ransomware, Extortions, and Blackmail: New Division, City of Los Angeles Challenges for Corporate Security - Shawn VanSlyke, This presentation will discuss the legal and Principal, Control Risks and Andre Simons, Supervisory administrative aspects of regulating the sale of legal Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, cannabis in the City of Los Angeles, as it has developed Behavioral Analysis Unit (retired) over the past two years. The regulation of legal Corporations, health care providers, hotel chains, and online dating sites are increasingly targeted by domestic and international cyber criminals who penetrate vulnerable systems and steal personally identifying information (PII) or target C-suite executives for blackmail. Law enforcement and corporate security professionals must quickly triage threats for credibility and often engage in prolonged, unproductive negotiations

cannabis sales and the consequent enforcement of the regulations against illegal or non-compliant sales and growth locations is a complicated work in progress. Los Angeles has mounted an aggressive effort to protect its employees against the forces released by the enormous profit and sheer volume of cash generated by both legal and illegal sales. Los Angeles has recently revamped its Citywide Threat reporting and response team, and this will be illustrated by real stories from both cannabis and non-cannabis related stories, all of which are real.

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Cannabis poses unique problems of assuring employee safety, including officials who inspect legal storefronts for compliance with fire and safety regulations, as well as employees who receive, count and transport millions of dollars in cash every month, much of which may be cannabis contaminated. The City is still staffing up its cannabis department, to assure compliance and audit.

The presentation will raise the awareness of jurisdictions as to the many legal and practical issues they will face, as the legalization of cannabis becomes ever wider. The issue will be viewed both from the workplace violence/ threat aspect, psychological effects on employees, and the sheer complexity of administration and regulation.

Threat Assessment: Management Principles and Practices: Part 3 - Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM, University of Nebraska Lincoln and William Zimmerman, CTM, Sigma Threat Management Associates

Effects of Trauma & Betrayal and Enhancing Care for the Sentinels - Gene Deisinger, Ph.D., President, Deisinger Consulting; Lynn Van Male, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Jeffrey Cugno, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles

This presentation will detail the history of the FedEx Corporations workplace violence prevention program and its evolution from the early 1990’s to present day.

For over a quarter century, professionals have made great strides in the development of best practices in the identification, assessment, and management of threats made by persons of concern. In these efforts to safeguard individuals and institutions, there has been limited focus on those responsible for these protective measures. First responders have benefited from recent awareness of betrayal or trauma suffered by these professionals in the execution of their respective discipline. This awareness focused on the four types of betrayal or trauma experienced by first responders: administrative, organizational, personal, and community. Similarly, threat assessment professionals find themselves susceptible to these issues as more is asked of them in their preparation of short and long term threat management cases. This panel discussion will call to attention the primary and secondary trauma experienced by threat professionals, review the scope of this trauma, discuss the variety of betrayal, and offer recommendations and considerations to assist threat professionals and their respective teams.

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Session participants will be able to detail relevant terminology and models, describe the application of threat management strategies, apply knowledge of relevant mental health risk factors and management and summarize the key literature in the field of threat assessment and threat management.

The Evolution of a Workplace Violence Prevention Program - Chris Connors, Global Staff DirectorCorporate Security, FedEx

More than Student Issues: The Range of Threats in K-12 Education - Joe Wright, Director of Security, Lincoln Public Schools All school threat teams work to prevent and mitigate violence that comes from students; only a portion of school teams manage threats from other sources. In the highly political and sometimes volatile world of education, threats come from many sources including parents, employees and members of the public. School teams can manage all threats by using best practices and collaborating with community partners.

Friday, August 16

From “Red Pill” to “Incels”: Assessment Issues in the Growing Realm of Gender- Based Targeted School Violence: Case Study Based Final Analysis – Violence Risk - Philip Saragoza, M.D., Forensic Kris Mohandie, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. and Maeve J. Fox, Senior Psychiatrist Deputy District Attorney, Ventura County A number of mass murders have been perpetrated in Several school violence incidents-shootings and recent years by individuals with gender based grievances interrupted events- will be analyzed from the and hatred. The ideologies underlying these grievances retrospective lens of forensic psychological evaluation have developed in online communities that exist on and testimony. What happened to the perpetrators a continuum from those proposing a framework for after they were apprehended? This presentation will understanding relationship dynamics – The “Red Pill” share in-depth information gleaned from several cases theory – to those promoting contempt and even violence about the offenses and the offenders, delving deeply toward women – The “Incels” – short for “involuntary into their psychology as assessed within the context celibates”. This presentation will examine these ideologies of their criminal trials: diagnostic issues, motivation, and discuss the internet’s role as a platform for “extreme developmental and life event influences, and other overvalued beliefs.” Two cases will be presented to variables will be discussed. Complexities and challenges illustrate the range of concerning behaviors and violence in these cases as they moved through the criminal justice risk factors important to threat assessors. The first is a system will be shared, as will final resolutions. The lessons workplace threat assessment case from the presenter’s derived from these case studies will assist those involved own files featuring an individual of concern who became in prospectively identifying, managing, and monitoring increasingly aggrieved through immersion in “The potentially threatening students, with special attention Manosphere,” culminating in gender-based hostility and to what indicators, warning behaviors, and risk factorsoutbursts in the workplace. The second case is the 2018 if any-were present. Helpful information about the mass murder in Toronto perpetrated by Alek Minassian, challenges of investigating and addressing the criminal who had declared his allegiance to “The Incel Rebellion.” responsibility issues post-incident will also be shared.

Bomber Profiling and Threat Assessment - Ron Tunkel, Supervisory Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Retired) This presentation will offer an overview of Bomber Behavioral Analysis (Criminal Profiling) and related Threat Assessment principles and techniques, for those professionals in the public (LE) and private sectors when investigating cases and threats where an explosive device is used as a weapon or referenced in the threat.

The importance of the analysis of the construction of the device -- and what it may reveal about its maker, any related communications, and a victimology study will be highlighted. The presenter will draw on his 30 years experience as an ATF agent, nearly 18 of which were spent detailed as a criminal profiler at the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. Case studies will support this interactive lecture.

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SPEAKER BIOS Molly Amman, CTM Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Molly Amman currently supervises Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operations in western Iowa, including a robust interagency threat response program. Previously, she served in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) between 2010 and 2018, focusing on assessing threats of violence posed by individuals and groups, assessing and managing threats related to completed and prospective school and workplace attacks, protracted crisis operations, and stalking and communicated threats.

SSA Amman served as the BAU’s program manager for threat assessment from 2012 until transitioning to domestic terrorism matters in 2016.

on issues related to first responders suffering from a mental health crisis, as well as threat assessment and management information. These presentations included participation in the Forensic Mental Health Association of California Annual Conference, the Crisis Intervention Team International Conference, the National Alliance on Mental Illness California Annual Conference, ATAP’s Threat Management Conference, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference.

Joel Brush

Joel Brush is the Requirements and Process Manager of the Department of Defense (DoD) Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center (DITMAC), which was established in the aftermath of the 2014 Washington Navy Yard shooting SSA Amman entered the FBI in 1998 and was assigned with a primary mission to oversee the mitigation of the to the Albuquerque field office, specializing in the violent threats posed to DoD by insiders. He joined the DITMAC crimes-major offenders program, and subsequently in May 2016. Brush began his career in the U.S. Army counterterrorism. She served on faculty at the FBI Academy in 2005 as a counterintelligence agent. He served a before transferring to the Critical Incident Response Group deployment in Iraq as a Human Intelligence Team leader. in 2008. SSA Amman has completed several overseas From 2009-2013, Brush was assigned to the Defense assignments and currently serves as an internal legal Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as a CI Agent to support advisor for the Bureau. multiple arms control treaties and various other special SSA Amman graduated from the University of Iowa with projects, before separating from the military. In 2013, he a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, followed by a Juris transitioned to a civilian employee at DTRA where he Doctorate from Drake University. worked to establish the agency’s Insider Threat Program until his departure for the DITMAC in 2016.

Brian Bixler Michelle Calhoun, M.A., CTM Lieutenant Brian Bixler has been a member of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1996. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 2012. He has worked on assignments in Patrol, Air Support, Firearms, Vice, Violent Crime, Gang Enforcement, and Surveillance. He is currently the Officer in Charge of the Crisis Response Support Section which includes the Threat Management Unit and Mental Evaluation Unit. He also serves as a Commissioner on the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Commission. Lieutenant Bixler currently holds the title as the Department of Mental Illness Project Coordinator.

In that capacity, he oversees a team of over 100 law enforcement officers and over 50 Los Angeles Department of Mental Health clinicians. Lieutenant Bixler oversees all mental health training provided to members of the LAPD, including the internationally recognized Mental Health Intervention Training. He has also presented

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Michelle Calhoun serves as the Workplace Violence Prevention Program Manager at the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS/USCIS) where she specializes in threat assessment cases. She is building the DHS/USCIS Workplace Violence Prevention Program, to include five threat assessment teams across five organizational regions. Prior to DHS/USCIS, Calhoun built the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) National Workplace Violence Prevention Policy Program for a personnel footprint of 65,000. As the SSA’s Workplace Violence Prevention Program Manager, she oversaw the education and management of twelve threat assessment teams placed across ten organizational regions, managed threat assessment cases, and conducted harassment investigations. Calhoun received multiple awards

during her tenure, including a Commissioner’s Citation for workplace violence program implementation, management, and leadership.

Detective Christiansen has given trainings for Police Officers and Advocates, both statewide and national.

He has consulted for the Stalking Resource Center out She is a member of ATAP’s Washington D.C. Chapter, and of the National Center for Victims of Crimes Native has served as Chapter Secretary since 2016. Calhoun is a American Circle and Unified Solutions Tribal Community Development Group. Trainings have encompassed law key contributor to ATAP’s National Communications and Strategic Planning Committees. She is a certified Mediator enforcement advocates working cooperatively, stalking, domestic violence, threat assessment, and trauma to (Mediation & Conflict Resolution Center of Howard County, Maryland) and is on the current speaker roster for victims. Also, Detective Christiansen is a Domestic Violence Trainer through FLETC and is trained in the use of the Threat the DoD OUSDI Insider Threat Program. Calhoun holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature Assessment Model, WAVR-21. He has continued to serve as a Hostage Negotiator for the Seattle Police Department from Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College, (University Park, PA) and a Master of Arts degree since 1999. In May 2016, Detective Christiansen passed the exam for the ATAP Certified Threat Manager and is in English Language and Literature from the University of now serving on the ATAP CTM Certification Committee.

Maryland (College Park, MD).

Detective Christiansen was one of the founding board Jim Cawood, Ph.D., CTM members of the NW ATAP Chapter, formed in 1992, and continues to be an active member. Detective Christiansen Dr. Jim Cawood is President of Factor One, a Californiahas received multiple awards during the past 23 years based corporation specializing in threat assessment while investigating domestic violence cases. and management, violence risk assessment, behavioral analysis, security consulting, and investigations. Dr. Mark Concordia, CTM Cawood has worked in the area of threat and violence Associate Professor Mark Concordia is a retired law risk assessment and management, behavioral analysis, enforcement practitioner with more than 22 years of violence prevention, security analysis, and incident service in local and federal law enforcement. Professor resolution for more than 25 years.

Concordia worked every aspect of the criminal justice Dr. Cawood is currently serving on the Editorial Board system to include patrol, narcotics, and homicide of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management investigations. Professor Concordia spent over 13 years (American Psychological Association) and is a past assigned to the FBI Buffalo Division Joint Terrorism Task president of ATAP. He has also served as ATAP’s Second Vice President and President of ATAP’s Northern California Force. He is a recognized counterterrorism and targeted Chapter; was a member of ASIS International Foundation’s violence subject matter expert and became an ATAP Certified Threat Manager (CTM) in 2017. Professor Board; and was Secretary of the Board.

Concordia currently leads the Roberts Wesleyan College Dr. Cawood is a graduate of University of California, Homeland Security and Applied Intelligence program and Berkeley, holds a Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology is the Director of the Roberts’ Justice and Security Institute. from Argosy University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Professor Concordia is a national presenter on targeted Northcentral University. violence threat assessment principles and assists multiple Rande Christiansen, CTM community stakeholders in creating comprehensive threat response protocols involving the use of threat assessment Detective Rande Christiansen started his career in Law Enforcement in 1982 as a volunteer Reserve Police Officer and management teams. in Albany, Oregon. In 1989, he was hired by the Seattle Police Department and worked the Patrol Division until he was promoted to Detective in the Domestic Violence Unit in 1995. Since then, a majority of his case investigations involve stalking cases and threat assessments.

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Chris Connors

SA Cugno is the Director of the Threat Assessment Regional Evaluation Team (TARGET) Working Group. The initial Chris Connors is the Staff Director of Security at FedEx goal of TARGET was to develop best practices in the Corporation, a position he has held since 2011. Connors is responsible for supporting the Corporate Vice Presidents identification, assessment, and management of threats to and Chief Security Officer’s strategic workplace programs. college and university campuses. This is accomplished through the identification of subject matter experts; Connors has been an integral part of the company’s Multidisciplinary Response Team since 1993 and has had sharing of information; and facilitation of training.

Since its inception in 2011, TARGET has expanded its a leadership role in the program since 2006. He also manages the Special Investigations Team that investigates outreach to include the following sectors: K-12 schools, houses of worship, healthcare facilities, and other critical internal and external fraud and employee complicity, as well as the corporation’s all hazards contingency planning. infrastructures.

Connors started with FedEx Express in 1986, holds a B.S. In May 2012, SA Cugno was selected to the FBI’s Child degree in Business Administration from the State University Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) Team. The CARD of New York, and he has an M.B.A from Dowling College Team generally deploys in response to non-family child in Oakdale, New York. abductions. Members of the CARD Team provide investigative, technical, and resource assistance to local, Jeffrey Cugno state, and federal law enforcement agencies. SA Cugno Special Agent Cugno entered on duty with the Federal is a Certified FBI Negotiator and Police Instructor. He Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2000. He routinely provides training and case consultation to was assigned to the Los Angeles Field Office’s Cyber domestic and international participants in the following Crime Squad. In 2006, he assumed the position of topics: crisis negotiations, cyber-crime investigations, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Coordinator. In evidence collection techniques, counter terrorism, and this role, SA Cugno is involved with the investigation violent crime matters. of repetitive and violent crimes, counterterrorism, SA Cugno holds a Master of Science Degree in Justice, and threatening communications. SA Cugno was a Law and Society.

Team Leader for the FBI’s Evidence Response Team (ERT). As an ERT Team Leader, SA Cugno led crime scene investigators during the collection of evidence in a variety of investigations, including but not limited to, bank robberies, kidnappings, homicides, Agentinvolved shootings, and airplane disasters.

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Gene Deisinger, Ph.D. Dr. Gene Deisinger is President of Deisinger Consulting, LLC, a professional services firm specializing in protective intelligence and behavioral threat assessment & management services for an international base of clients.

As an internationally recognized threat management practitioner with more than 25 years of experience, Dr. Deisinger helps organizations to enhance policy, processes, and practices to identify, assess, and manage situations that may pose a threat of violence or significant disruption to continuity of operations. His work has helped many organizations build comprehensive and collaborative processes, enhance practices incorporating relevant and contemporary standards, mitigate risk for violence, and enhance the safety and well-being of their organizations.

Dr. Deisinger earned his doctorate in psychology from Iowa State University. He is a licensed psychologist, a certified health service provider in psychology, and, until his retirement, a certified law enforcement officer. Dr. Deisinger served as Deputy Chief of Police & Director of Threat Management at Virginia Tech, recruited to that position following the 2007 mass casualty incident at the university. Following his retirement from Virginia Tech in December 2014, Dr. Deisinger was retained as the Threat Management Consultant for the Virginia Center for School & Campus Safety, providing training and consultation for schools, campuses, government & law enforcement agencies across Virginia.

Charles Dempsey Detective III Charles Dempsey is the officer-in-charge of the Administrative Training Detail, Mental Evaluation Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. He has over thirty years of law enforcement experience with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Department of Defense. He has an Associates in Science in Nursing, a certificate from the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center (German), studies in Urban Geography and Foreign Languages (Spanish) and completed the Clinical Training Program, at the National Center for Post -Traumatic Stress Disorder, Menlo Park, California. He is responsible for the design, development, and delivery

of the Department’s training curricula regarding police interactions with persons suffering from a mental illness.

Detective Dempsey reviews and writes the Department’s policies and procedures involving interactions with persons suffering from a mental illness. Detective Dempsey is a member of the Innovations Sub-Committee of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which is charged with looking at innovative solutions in assisting those suffering from a mental illness in the State of California. He has given expert witness testimony in State/Federal civil trials regarding police response to persons with a mental illness.

He is a past member of the California Crisis Intervention Training Association Board of Directors.

Kendall Donahue Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Kendall R. Donahue is the Branch Chief of Investigations for the Department of State Office of Protective Intelligence Investigations (PII), where she supervises PII’s threat management investigations. SSA Donahue began her career as a Department of State (DS) agent in 2005 at the New York Field Office and has served in a wide variety of domestic and overseas assignments to include the Branch Chief of Investigations and Vetting at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq. Prior to joining DS, SSA Donahue was a high school biology teacher. SSA Donahue holds a B.S. in Biological Science and a Masters in Science Education from the University of Georgia.

Bryan Flannery Bryan Flannery is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Foresight Security Consulting. With more than 22 years of experience in the military, law enforcement, and the private sector, Flannery has served as a consultant to state and federal government agencies, corporate clients, schools, and houses of worship. A skilled threat assessment and security specialist, Flannery’s approach to training is influenced by his experience developing threat assessment and management systems, security vulnerability assessments, and protective details and security strategies for high profile clients. A fifteen-year member of ATAP, Flannery currently serves as President of the Board for the Northwest Chapter of the association.

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Mark Follman Mark Follman is a journalist and author based in San Francisco, and is the national affairs editor for Mother Jones.

Maeve Fox Maeve Fox received her law degree in 1988 from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She practiced for two years in a civil firm specializing in landslide, subsidence, and construction defect cases before coming to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office in 1990. Fox worked in the Misdemeanor, Narcotics Asset Forfeiture, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault Units before being assigned to homicides in 1997.

the senior behavioral advisor for the DoD Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center (DITMAC). In this role he works directly with analysts, components, and leadership providing insights and guidance from his unique perspective.

Karie Gibson, Psy.D.

Dr. Karie Gibson has been a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for thirteen years and currently serves as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (BAU-1), Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC) where she is responsible for providing behaviorally based operational support and training to federal, state, local, tribal, and international law enforcement agencies. In providing operational Fox handled a multitude of homicide and other high-profile support for both BTAC and counterterrorism cases, Dr. cases encompassing capital litigation, multi-defendant Gibson completes threat assessments, threat management gang murders, sexually assault murders, the murder of strategies, statement analysis, interview and interrogation a police officer, and the 2002 conviction of serial rapist strategies, prosecutorial strategies, media strategies, and Andrew Luster. She brought twenty-three murder cases to unknown offender profiles. Dr. Gibson entered the FBI jury trial including one of Ventura County’s only “no-body” in 2006 and was assigned to the Minneapolis Division. cases, involving a man who had been missing for twelve While at Minneapolis, Dr. Gibson worked Horn of Africa years, and a 35-year old cold-hit DNA case involving threat, Counterterrorism, and Violent Crime matters. the rape, kidnap, and murder of a woman killed in 1979.

Prior to becoming an agent with the FBI, Dr. Gibson was In 2012, working with Dr. Mohandie, she obtained a and continues to be a licensed clinical psychologist.

Life Without Parole sentence for a man who claimed She was an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) insanity after brutally murdering a six-year-old boy with where for four years she worked as a psychologist a meat cleaver. In 2017, she tried the first case in Ventura conducting therapy and psychological assessments County involving homicide charges against an unlicensed for military members and their families. After the USAF, contractor responsible for the death of a day laborer. In Dr. Gibson was a Forensic Evaluator for the State of 2011, Dr. Mohandie and Fox worked together on the high- Washington for one year before leaving to join the FBI. As profile murder of Larry King, a transgender child who was a Forensic Evaluator, Dr. Gibson completed court ordered murdered at E.O. Green Middle School in Oxnard. The evaluations such as competency to stand trial, mental state trial ended with a hung jury, but the case sparked intense at time of offense, diminished capacity, insanity, and civil national dialog about juvenile justice, LGBTQ rights, and commitment evaluations. school safety.

Dr. Gibson earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Robert Gallagher, Ph.D., CTM Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1997; a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Clinical Dr. Robert Gallagher is an operational psychologist who has spent more than 20 years supporting the Department Psychology with an emphasis in psychological assessment of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC) as from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2000; and a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in military officer, government civilian and now, contractor.

Clinical Psychology with a concentration in forensics from His work has included supporting some of the DoD’s and the IC’s most sensitive missions and he has provided direct the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2002. operational mission support on six continents. He has the distinction of one of being one of the few doctoral-level psychologists to become credentialed as a special agent in counterintelligence. Dr. Gallagher currently serves as

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Daniel Graney, Ed.D. CTM

Leonard C. Herr

Dr. Daniel Graney is the Dean of Students at the University of Rhode Island (URI). He oversees multiple student services areas including the Office of Community Standards, Outreach & Intervention, Disability Services for Students, Greek Life, and Veterans and Military Programs.

He is the convener of the University of Rhode Island Threat Assessment Team, Behavioral Intervention Team, and Sexual Assault Response Team. He serves as chief Threat Manager on campus and works closely with URI police, Counseling Services, Health Services, and Campus Emergency Management.

Leonard C. Herr completed one year of clerkship at the Court of Appeal in 1979, and has spent the last 40 years involved in civil litigation in state and federal court in California at both the state and appellate levels. As a result of the quality of that trial work, which consists of over 50 civil jury trials, Leonard was invited to membership of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Leonard has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California and has sat as a judge pro temp of the Superior Court of the State of California.

Before coming to URI, Dr. Graney was the director of a Forensic/Addictions unit at a community mental health center in Massachusetts for five years. He first became interested in threat assessment while completing his Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC. He was awarded his doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Johnson and Wales University in Providence in 2011.

His dissertation compared how behavioral intervention teams at the state flagship universities in New England use threat assessment in their work. Dr. Graney has consulted and trained a number of colleges and universities in the region around the topics of threat assessment, behavioral intervention, crisis response and student sexual misconduct and relationship violence.

Angel Gray, J.D., MPH Angel E. Gray, J.D., MPH is currently General Counsel for the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI).

Prior to that, she was a member of the Law Enforcement Liaison Section of the N.C. Attorney General’s Office where she represented the NCSBI, N.C. Sheriffs’ and Criminal Justice Training and Standards Divisions. Prior to joining the Law Enforcement Liaison Section, Gray was a member of the Human Services/Medical Facilities Section of the N.C. Attorney General’s Office where she represented the Division of Health Service Regulation in certificate of need litigation and served as legal counsel to the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services where she handled general legal issues and weekly commitment hearings. Gray received her undergraduate degree in English from Duke University, her MPH from UNC-Chapel Hill, and her J.D. from Campbell Law School.

Nicole Jones, Ph.D. Nicole Jones, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with the Behavioral Threat Assessment (BeTA) Unit of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI). Dr. Jones has more than 20 years of working with individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and serious emotional dysregulation (SED). She has led multiple evidence to practice research studies and understands the unique challenge of applying academic research in large, complex organizations. She has published in the areas of behavioral assessment, aggression, and implementation of evidence-based treatment for persons with serious mental illness in public sector settings including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community-based mental health programs and in the criminal justice system. Dr. Jones is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to ATAP, she is a member of the American Psychological Association and the North Carolina Psychological Association.

Maura Kane McAuliffe, Psy. D. Dr. Maura Kane McAuliffe is a Licensed Clinical Forensic Psychologist (PSY 29766) who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from California State University, San Bernardino, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Forensic Psychology from Alliant International University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s Behavioral Sciences Unit focusing on criminal investigative analysis, threat assessment and management related to public officials, criminal trial preparation, and case analysis. Dr. Kane has testified and qualified as an expert witness in Forensic Psychology and Pathway to Targeted Violence, as well as participated in case preparation and research on capital murder death penalty cases.

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Dr. Kane currently works as an Occupational Psychologist with the City of Los Angeles, Medical Services Division.

She is assigned to the Workplace Violence Prevention team performing workplace violence assessments in coordination with other members of the Citywide Threat Assessment Team (CTAT). Dr. Kane is also the founder and owner of One Asterisk Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm that provides training and continuing education for public officials, municipal government, and law enforcement.

Along with her assessment and consulting work, Dr. Kane provides psychological treatment at several locked inpatient facilities housing individuals with severe mental illness. She is skilled in conducting individual and group therapy focusing on the rehabilitation and reintegration of mentally ill individuals back into the community, as well as providing treatment to veterans.

Vicki King Vicki King is the Assistant Chief of Police, Converged Threat/Risk Protection & Investigations for the University of Texas-Houston (UT-Houston). During her 32-year law enforcement career, King served 27 years with the Houston Police Department, rising to the rank of Assistant Chief. As chief of detectives, tactical support commander, and director of forensic services, she oversaw some of HPD’s highest profile cases, including serial homicides, corruption, domestic violence, sexual assaults, and gangland slayings. After retiring from HPD, King served as an emissary to the Saudi Royal family, adjunct professor for the University of Houston System, and chief of police for the City of La Marque.

intervention. In addition to volunteering on local non-profit boards for suicide prevention organizations, Klebold is a member of the National Loss and Healing Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and is a member of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Consumer-Survivor Subcommittee. She has participated in presentations, co-chaired conferences at the state and national levels, and written about the experience of surviving a loved one’s murder-suicide.

Gérard Labuschagne, Ph.D. Professor Gérard Labuschagne, Ph.D., is currently a Director of L&S Threat Management, South Africa’s first sole-purpose threat assessment and management company focusing on workplace violence and threats.

Before taking up this position, he was the Section Head of the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Investigative Psychology Section (IPS) for 14 years where he resigned on the rank of Brigadier. The IPS is the South African Police Services’ equivalent of the Behavioral Analysis Units of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is a clinical psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and a criminologist with the Criminological Society of Sothern Africa, and Advocate (Barrister) of the High Court (non-practicing).

Professor Labuschagne is on the editorial board for the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling and the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, a consultant to the National Institute of Justice of the Department of Justice in the USA, and a fellow of the International Academy of Investigative In 2015, King was recruited to head UT-Houston’s threat Psychology. He is a member of the British Psychological assessment and criminal investigations units. Under her Society, and the International Homicide Investigators leadership, the units have expanded their capabilities using Association. He was an adjunct faculty member of a multidisciplinary approach for the identification and the California School of Forensic Studies at Alliant mitigation of risks and threats. Successful interventions by International University in the USA from 2008 until 2016 the Threat Management Team include the interruption of and was a Professor Extraordinarius at the Department one active shooter plan and the saving of five lives. of Criminology at the University of South Africa (UNISA) King earned a master’s degree in criminal justice from the from April 2008 until April 2011. From April 2013 University of Houston, Downtown. until April 2016, he was appointed as a Professor Extraordinarius at the Department of Police Practice Sue Klebold at UNISA. He currently holds an Honorary Associate Sue Klebold has spent the last 15 years excavating every Professorship in the Division of Forensic Medicine and Pathology at WITS University in Johannesburg. detail of her family life, and trying to understand the crucial intersection between mental health problems and Professor Labuschagne was trained in 2007 as a violence. Instead of becoming paralyzed by her grief and Hostage and Suicide Negotiator by the SAPS and remorse, she has become a passionate and effective agent was the psychological analyst for the Pretoria Hostage working tirelessly to advance mental health awareness and

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Negotiation Team. He has conducted threat assessments in stalking situations, domestic violence incidents, product tampering extortion cases, anonymous death threats, threats to corporate CEOs, bomb threats to companies, and even in respect of death threats made towards Barack Obama during his South African visits, on behalf of the U.S. Secret Service.

Glenn Lipson, Ph.D., ABPP Dr. Lipson has been working in the area threat assessment for close to 30 years. He has worked both corrections and law enforcement. His doctoral dissertation studied the psychological and emotional impact the 1984 San Ysidro, California McDonald’s massacre had on officers.

He has worked with the military addressing the prevention of sexual assault, and intimate partner violence and homicide. As a retained expert, he has submitted briefs to the United States Supreme Court. He assists regulatory boards, private companies, and public risk management agencies in deterring interpersonal violence. He has served on multidisciplinary teams addressing threat concerns. Dr. Lipson is part of the committee that created the ATAP RAGE-V, a multidisciplinary violence risk assessment guideline. He has been researching cyber risk assessment and has presented frequently at ATAP’s Threat Management Conference and for the State Department.

Andrija Lopez, J.D. Andrija Lopez has been a prosecutor for 15 years with the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. For the past six years she has been assigned to the juvenile branch where she prosecutes all school threat cases made by juveniles. Lopez has reviewed well over 100 school threat cases and has become the in-house expert for threats of targeted violence on school grounds. Lopez co-authored the School Threat Protocol released countywide on April 27, 2018. She was recognized by the San Diego County District Attorney’s Association for her legislative efforts in Sacramento regarding school threats. Lopez created and chairs the School Threat Assessment Team (STAT) which is a multi-disciplinary team comprised of mental health, law enforcement, and school experts. STAT convenes on a regular basis to focus on cases that present legal challenges, but require intervention. She is presently working on bridging the communication gap between law enforcement and mental health professionals on school threat cases.

Rudy Lorber, Ph.D., ABPP, CTM Dr. Rudy Lorber is a Neuropsychologist and Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is also a Certified Threat Manager (CTM) and is Nationally Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. He has been a member of the Northwest chapter of ATAP since 2010 and previously served as the Northwest chapter Secretary. Throughout Dr. Lorber’s more than 40-year career, he has conducted in-depth forensic assessments that address the underlying neuropsychological, psychopathological, and behavioral factors that may foster threatening and aggressive behaviors, as well as treated highly aggressive and threatening youth, adolescents, and young adults. His previous research and national/international presentations have focused on neuropsychological and behavioral disorders, the development and expression of aggressive/threatening behaviors, as well as stalking and anonymous threats.

Additionally, Dr. Lorber has consulted with school districts and organizations in Washington State and throughout the country regarding mental health issues, including those that can result from threatening and disaster situations. Dr. Lorber has presented to both the Northwest ATAP chapter and the National ATAP and international Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP) regarding issues of psychopathology relevant to threat assessment. Currently, Dr. Lorber is a consultant to the Puget Sound Educational Service District and is a member of its Level 2 Threat Assessment Team, as well as being a member of the ATAP Education Community advisory committee.

Jody Marks Jody Marks, B.S. is the Senior Intelligence Analyst in the Behavioral Threat Assessment Unit (BeTA) at the NCSBI (North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation). After graduating college in 2007, she began her career in the private sector working for a large, corporate bank detecting and deterring financial fraud. She moved to state government in 2010 where she spent seven years working as an investigator enforcing the North Carolina Securities and Investment Advisers Act and the North Carolina Corporations Act. Marks was hired in 2017 as a Senior Intelligence Analyst for the NCSBI and is positioned within the North Carolina Fusion Center (ISAAC) specializing in complex intelligence gathering & analysis and managing several strategic projects. When the NCSBI initiated the BeTA Unit, Marks was instrumental in the research, design, development and implementation of the unit from inception.

She has extensive training in covert computer operations, anonymization, and criminal intelligence analysis.

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John McDonald

McDonald is often requested by local and national media and is a nationally recognized presenter. In 2015, John McDonald is the Department of School Safety he was recognized by CBS News as a Community Executive Director for Jeffco Public Schools (Jefferson Game Changer for his work on the front lines, protecting County, Colorado) and is recognized internationally as kids and in 2018, Showtime highlighted McDonald’s the architect of the Columbine High School post-tragedy security and emergency management plan. Jeffco Schools work during the documentary series Active Shooter, is a district of 86,000 students and 14,000 employees at America Under Fire. the foot of the Colorado Rockies.

Reid Meloy, Ph.D. McDonald has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a subject matter expert on active shooter preparedness, emergency plan development, and school/ law enforcement collaboration. Following the Sandy Hook tragedy, he was invited to the White House to speak about creating the model active shooter preparedness, response and recovery program in K-12 schools.

During his time with Jeffco Schools, McDonald has responded to and managed several tragedies in the Jeffco School District including the 2010 Deer Creek Middle School shooting. He was recognized as the Security Director of the Year for his leadership and actions connected to the 2012 kidnapping and murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway while on her way to school and the 2014 tragedy when a high school student intentionally set himself on fire in front of more than 200 classmates. In addition to responding to critical events in his own school district, McDonald has supported many other school districts around the country during tragic events including the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting, the 2015 Scream Bandit bank robbers shooting at Sheridan High, and the 2018 school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida.

McDonald earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and Criminology and taught criminal investigations and interview and interrogation as an adjunct instructor in Criminal Justice studies. He began his career in the military prior to working as a Police Officer in Colorado and then transitioned to the private sector for more than a decade as a senior manager of U.S. investigations with a Fortune 100 corporation.

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Dr. Meloy is a board-certified forensic psychologist (ABPP) and consults on criminal and civil cases throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is past president of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He has received a number of awards and honors, and was the Yochelson Visiting Scholar at Yale University in March, 2015, and Visiting Scholar at University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich in May, 2018. Dr. Meloy has authored or co-authored over two hundred forty papers published in peerreviewed psychiatric and psychological journals, and has authored, co-authored and/or edited twelve books.

He has been consulting, researching and writing about personality disorder, psychopathy, stalking, narcissism, criminality, mental disorder, and targeted violence for the past thirty years. His first book, The Psychopathic Mind (Aronson, 1988), was an integration of the biological and psychodynamic understanding of psychopathy.

His co-edited book with Drs. Hoffmann and Sheridan, Stalking, Threatening and Attacking Public Figures (Oxford University Press, 2008), led to a commissioned study for the National Academy of Sciences on threats toward public figures published in 2011 (www.nap.edu).

His recent book with Dr. Hoffmann is the International Handbook of Threat Assessment (Oxford University Press, 2014). Dr. Stephen White and he created the WAVR-21 V3 (www.wavr21.com), a structured professional judgment instrument for targeted workplace violence. Dr. Meloy has been a consultant to the FBI, Quantico, for the past

eighteen years, and is the originator and developer of the TRAP-18 (Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol, www.gifrinc.com). He was a member of the Fixated Research Group for the United Kingdom’s Home Office concerning threats to the Royal Family and British political figures, and is a consulting member of Work Trauma Services, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, Team Psychology and Security in Darmstadt, Germany, L&S Threat Management in South Africa, and the Freeh Group International Solutions. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.

History, and the Discovery Channel. He was the host and a producer on the Investigative Discovery show, “Most Evil,” and the 2018 series, “Breaking Homicide.” His true crime book, Evil Thoughts: Wicked Deeds, will be released November 5, 2019.

He regularly consults on matters of risk and threat management to the private and public sector, including the entertainment industry.

Kirk Newring, Ph.D., CTM

Dr. Kirk A. B. Newring is a licensed psychologist in the states of Nebraska, Iowa, and Washington and is a Kris Mohandie, Ph.D., ABPP Certified Threat Manager through the Association of Dr. Kris Mohandie is a clinical, police, and forensic Threat Assessment Professionals. After working in total psychologist with over 30 years of experience in the confinement settings for the states of Washington and assessment and management of violent behavior. He Nebraska, Dr. Newring started a private practice in is licensed as a psychologist in several states including Papillion, Nebraska. He has provided undergraduate California, Alaska, New York, Nevada, and Utah. He is and graduate instruction in psychology and forensic Board Certified by the American Board of Professional psychology and is an adjunct faculty instructor at the Psychology (ABPP) in Police and Public Safety Psychology. Creighton University School of Medicine. Dr. Newring has He has consulted in field responses and case investigations offered expert witness testimony in several jurisdictions. for local, state, and federal law enforcement organizations His clinical practice is focused primarily on the assessment, including LAPD’s Threat Management Unit, SWAT/ management, and treatment of violent behavior.

Crisis Negotiation Team, and the Federal Bureau Cat Packer of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Program. He responded on-scene to the O.J. Simpson barricade Appointed in August of this year by City of Los Angeles and the North Hollywood Bank Robbery Shootout. Dr. Mayor, Eric Garcetti,, Packer serves as the city’s first Mohandie has consulted on and testified in numerous Executive Director of the Department of Cannabis extreme violence and homicide cases, including single, Regulation. Most recently, Packer served as California mass, and serial homicide cases. Dr. Mohandie, along with Policy Coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), several others, has participated in two scientific studies of where she worked to ensure the successful and equitable mass murder, including those perpetrated by adults and development and implementation of California’s adolescents. He has several coauthored chapters which evolving cannabis laws and policies. Within her role, appear in the 2014 book, International Handbook of Packer championed responsible regulation, industry Threat Assessment. diversity and reinvestment in communities most harmed by marijuana prohibition. Prior to joining DPA, Packer Dr. Mohandie has conducted extensive trial pending served as the Campaign Coordinator for Californians and prison interviews of violent offenders, including a number of stalkers, hostage takers, workplace and school for Responsible Marijuana Reform, Drug Policy Action’s social justice driven campaign in support of the Adult Use violence perpetrators, serial, and multiple murderers. Dr. of Marijuana Act. Packer is an alumna of The Ohio State Mohandie’s work has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and LA Times, and he has appeared in University where she received a Bachelor’s in Political Science, a Master’s in Public Policy & Management and the news programs of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, and Fox, as well as programs on Investigative Discovery, A&E, a Juris Doctor.

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Russell Palarea, Ph.D. Dr. Russell Palarea is the founder and President of Operational Psychology Services, LLC, where he provides investigative consultation, operational training, and program evaluation on threat assessment, insider threat, and counterterrorism to Fortune 500 corporations, global security firms, law enforcement, government agencies, and universities. Through his company, Dr. Palarea serves as the contract Operational Psychologist for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Office of Protective Intelligence Investigations (DS/PII). He was brought to DS in 2012 to spearhead the creation of the State Department’s Threat Management Program, and currently consults on investigations of threats and violence against State Department leadership and personnel, U.S. Embassies/Consulates/facilities worldwide, and foreign dignitaries and facilities in the U.S. He also provides consultation to the DS Insider Threat Program, and is a DS Training Academy instructor and Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) presenter.

From 2001-2011, Dr. Palarea served as a Staff Operational Psychologist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), where he provided psychological consultation on violent crime, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism investigations. Additionally, Dr. Palarea has consulted for several Department of Defense (DoD) groups, including the Fort Hood Task Force addressing violence prevention and Psychological Autopsy Working Group. He has served as an instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), CIA University, and DoD Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA), and has provided training for numerous local, state, federal, and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Dr. Palarea has conducted research on stalking, workplace violence, and assessment of communicated threats with the Los Angeles Police Department Threat Management Unit, U.S. Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section, Nebraska State Patrol, and Lincoln Police Department. His journal publications have appeared in Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Violence & Victims, Journal of Forensic Sciences, and Journal of Threat Assessment. He has co-authored book chapters on psychiatric diagnoses and the offendervictim typology of stalking in Meloy’s The Psychology of Stalking, crisis negotiations in Kennedy & Zillmer’s Military Psychology, ethics in crisis negotiations in Kennedy & Williams’ The Ethics of Operational Psychology, and role of sexual fantasies in sex offenses in Robertz’ Violent Fantasies.

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Dr. Palarea holds a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Forensics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He currently serves as the President of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) and is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. He was awarded ATAP’s Meritorious Service Award in 2012.

Francis Rego Lieutenant Francis Rego is a 13-year veteran of the MiamiDada Police Department. Rego was assigned to the Special Response Team (SRT) in June of 2016, and since has overseen over 500 SRT operations. Included in these operations are serving high-risk search warrants to the resolution of hostage rescue incidents.

Hugo Rossitter, J.D. Deputy City Attorney Hugo Rossitter is the Lead Attorney of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Workplace Violence Team.

The City of Los Angeles has had two multiple homicide workplace violence incidents and receives reports of alleged workplace violence incidents on a frequent, if not daily, basis. The City has an aggressive program to address these incidents and respond appropriately.

Over the past 18 years, Rossitter has helped shape the City of Los Angeles’ response to significant threats to city employees and elected officials. This has included restraining orders, security measures for worksites and residences of targeted employees, and ongoing advice and counseling to both victims and departmental management. Rossitter is a principal member of the Citywide Threat Assessment Team, responding to reports of workplace violence threats and incidents within the 40,000 plus workforce of the City of Los Angeles. He provides immediate triage and advice, and determines the appropriate administrative and legal actions, including the filing of restraining orders and administrative or disciplinary action.

Rossitter works in unison with detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Threat Management Unit.

He has given numerous supervisory and employee training sessions on workplace violence awareness and prevention. Prior to joining the Office of the City Attorney in 2002, Rossitter had 20 years of corporate experience in legal and executive positions in the entertainment industry, including KCAL-TV, The Walt Disney Company and Fox, Inc. His responsibilities have included corporate counsel, site security, threat management for on-air talent, and employee relations.

Rossitter has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from King Hall, University of California, Davis. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Labor and Employment Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. With Advance Mediation Certification, he is a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Alternate Dispute Resolution panel.

Southern California Gould’s associate dean for research from 2005-2010 and also teaches at the Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Saks received her J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D in Psychoanalytic Science from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD, Hon) from Pepperdine University.

Sheridan Ryan, J.D. CTM, PT, CPHRM

Dr. Saks writes extensively in the area of law and mental health, having published five books and more than 50 articles and book chapters. Her research has included the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of people with mental illness. Her memoir, “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness,” describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. Dr. Saks has won numerous honors, including a 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called “Genius Grant”).

Sheridan Ryan is Associate Director of Risk Management at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Sheridan is an ATAP Certified Threat Manager (CTM). In that capacity, she provides threat management services to Medical College of Wisconsin’s 2,000 healthcare providers and leads the MCW-Froedtert Hospital-CHW Threat Assessment Team.

Sheridan serves on ATAP’s Certification Examination Committee, is the principal organizer of her department’s annual “Threat Assessment and Management with a Healthcare Focus” seminar, and has authored numerous articles on threat assessment and management in healthcare.

Earl Sam

Special Agent Earl Sam, M.A., is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he Greg Saathoff, M.D. dual-majored in Peace, War, Defense and Sociology.

Gregory Saathoff, M.D. is a Professor in the University of After graduating in 2005, he began his law enforcement Virginia School of Medicine with joint appointments in the career with the Raleigh Police Department (RPD). With Departments of Emergency Medicine and Public Health RPD, SA Sam was a member of the department’s Crisis Sciences. Since 1996, he has served as the psychiatric Intervention Team (CIT) that focused on improving law consultant to the Behavioral Analysis Units within the enforcement response and engagement with mental health Federal Bureau of Investigation’s(FBI) National Center for subjects. In 2012, he joined the North Carolina State the Analysis of Violent Crime. Dr. Saathoff also serves as a Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI). With the NCSBI, he psychiatrist within the Virginia Department of Corrections has conducted a wide range of investigations into major where he also teaches medical students in prison crimes in both the criminal and drug fields of investigation. psychiatry. He has held visiting professorships in the U.K. In 2018, SA Sam was selected to join the NCSBI’s newly and Saudi Arabia, and has testified before the U.S. Senate formed Behavioral Threat Assessment (BeTA) Unit, which and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In addition to the focuses on conducting statewide threat assessment FBI, Dr. Saathoff has conducted research and provided investigations into persons who exhibit behaviors consistent consultation to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of with the pathway to targeted violence.

Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Defense.

Philip Saragoza, M.D. Philip Saragoza, M.D., is a board-certified forensic psychiatrist and an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in Elyn Saks is Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Professor of Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Medical School. Dr. Saragoza works in private practice Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law; Director of the as a clinical and forensic psychiatrist, and is an associate Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; threat assessment consultant with Work Trauma Services, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, Inc. Prior to starting his private practice, Dr. Saragoza San Diego, School of Medicine; and Faculty at the New served as the Director of University of Michigan’s Center for Psychoanalysis. She served as the University of Forensic Psychiatry Clinic, conducting evaluations and Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D.

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consultations on issues related to violence risk, fitness for duty, psychiatric disability, civil commitment, need for guardianship or conservatorship, and other forensic issues. He continues to work as the psychiatric consultant for the University’s integrated disability management program and the University health system’s employee assistance program. Through these agencies, he has conducted case consultations involving claims of hostile work environment, workplace harassment, and employee violence risk.

Dr. Saragoza previously worked for several years as a Consulting Forensic Examiner at the State of Michigan’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry, a high-security hospital for mentally ill offenders. There, he treated inpatients found Incompetent to Stand Trial or legally insane, performed release-planning risk assessments, and conducted courtordered examinations of competency and sanity. Dr. Saragoza has conducted hundreds of assessments of individuals who have engaged in threats, stalking and violent behavior, and has served as an expert witness on civil and criminal psychiatric issues in numerous courts.

As an educator, Dr. Saragoza supervises fellows in forensic psychiatry and provides lectures and seminars to a wide variety of professionals, including mental health professionals in academic and community settings, corporate and human resource managers, and campus audiences. His peer-reviewed publications include topics such as psychopathy, malingering, workplace violence risk, and the role of expert opinion in various criminal contexts.

research and consultation assessing predictive risk factors and management strategies concerning targeted threatening, and violent activity. In addition to his role as director, Dr. Scalora serves as a consulting psychologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police regarding campus safety, threat management, and emergency preparedness. Dr. Scalora also serves as a consultant to a range of corporations as well as educational institutions regarding threat assessment and management. Dr. Scalora has assisted with the development of the Nebraska K-12 Threat Assessment Guidance being implemented across the state.

Ron Schouten, M.D., J.D., CTM

Mario Scalora Ph.D., CTM

Dr. Ronald Schouten is the Director of the Law & Psychiatry Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schouten practiced employment law in Chicago before attending medical school and has combined his legal and medical training to provide consultation and training to a wide variety of groups and individuals. He has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant in the traditional areas of forensic psychiatry, as well as special expertise in the areas of organizational consultation, threat assessment, violence in the workplace, the Americans with Disabilities Act, impaired professionals, and sexual harassment. Dr. Schouten has been a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, working with BAU-I on terrorism and campus shooting matters. He is the Threat Management Consultant to the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Dr. Mario Scalora is the director of the Public Policy Center and professor of psychology with the Clinical Training and Law-Psychology Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as coordinating an active academic research program engaging in collaborative research in targeted violence. He received his B.S. in psychology from St. Joseph’s University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

His research interests address various types of targeted violence issues including threats to public institutions and infrastructure/threat assessment, sexual offending, stalking, and workplace violence. This research continues to involve collaboration with state and federal agencies dealing with threat assessment and management issues. Dr. Scalora has extensive relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies related to threat assessment

Dr. Schouten has played a key role in the development of a number of innovations in the teaching of forensic mental health issues. These include a grand rounds program on mental health issues for Massachusetts’ judges, a Harvard Medical School Continuing Education Program held for legal professionals, the Harvard Medical School Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, and numerous teaching programs for the Law & Psychiatry Service, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard College. He is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry, a Past President of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry, and is licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts, California, and New York and is a Member of the Bar of the State of Illinois. In 2008, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Dr. Schouten is the co-author of Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy published by Hazelden/Harvard Health Publications in 2012. He is the editor of Mental Health Practice and the Law, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press.

Assessment Team. Solov prosecuted James Joseph Cain for the stalking and murder of his ex-girlfriend, Judith Phillips, a death penalty case which received national media attention. The defendant pled guilty prior to trial and was sentenced to life without parole plus an additional 30 years.

Solov is an ATAP Past President, serving as the first woman president in ATAP’s history, from August 2009 Dr. Pete Simi is an Associate Professor in the Department of to September 2013. She now serves as the president Sociology at Chapman University. He has studied extremist of ATAP’s San Diego Chapter and chair of ATAP’s groups and violence for the past 20 years, conducting Certification Committee. interviews and observation with a range of violent gangs Solov routinely provides training to prosecutors, law and political extremists. Dr. Simi is a member of the National Consortium in Studies of Terrorism and Responses enforcement and advocates in the area of stalking and threat assessment. Solov graduated from the University of to Terrorism (START) which is a university-based research San Diego School of Law where she was the Executive center committed to the scientific study of the causes and consequences of terrorism in the United States and around Editor of the Law Review. the world. His research has been funded by the National She is currently the Chief of the Collaborative Courts and Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, Harry Realignment Unit of the San Diego District Attorney’s Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Department of Homeland Office where she works on issues related to AB109’s Security, and Department of Defense.

Criminal Justice Realignment and Proposition 47. Solov graduated Cum Laude with a major in political science Dr. Simi is also co-author of an award-winning book from San Diego State University. manuscript, American Swastika: Inside the White Power Pete Simi, Ph.D.

Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate, and frequently serves as an expert legal consultant on criminal cases related to political extremism. He is currently working on a book manuscript under contract with the University of California Press that examines the domestic front in the “war on terror” tentatively-titled, Sting: Inside the FBI’s Provocation of Terror.

Andre Simons, CTM Andre Simons served for nearly 23 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation with 13 years as a Supervisory Special Agent assigned to the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group. Simons was primarily assigned to threat assessment and active shooter matters in the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), as a Unit Chief in the BAU, and in the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU).

Bronwynn Stollarz, MA Bronwynn Stollarz is a Clinical Psychologist and a Director at L&S Threat Management, South Africa’s only sole-purpose threat assessment and management advisory company focusing on workplace violence.

She was previously employed in the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) specialized Investigative Psychology Section (IPS), where she was the Section Commander, Forensic Psychology, in the rank of Colonel. The IPS is the South African Police Service’s equivalent of the Behavioral Analysis Units of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

Stollarz completed an undergraduate degree in Child and Family Psychology at the University of Johannesburg in 2006 and an Honors degree in Psychology in 2007, following which she completed Rachel Solov, CTM a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Rachel Solov has been a deputy district attorney for University of the Witwatersrand (Cum Laude) in 2010. the San Diego District Attorney’s Office 1999. She Stollarz has presented a number of presentations in was assigned to the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division her role at the SAPS on topics such as family murder, from 2003-2009, where she was the sole prosecutor intimate partner murder, and paraphilic behavior. In assigned to prosecute all female-victim domestic violence 2017 she co-presented at the European Association stalking cases that occurred in the county of San Diego. of Threat Assessment annual conference, on product Additionally, she headed San Diego’s Stalking Case tampering extortion.

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About the workshop The behavioral threat assessment workshop is a two-day training designed to assist organizations in managing the spectrum of violent incidents and malicious insiders in the workplace. This course is designed to enhance your ability to develop your organization’s workplace violence prevention and insider threat programs, and enhance your skills in conducting behavioral threat assessments.

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The workshop is designed for managers who will have a key role in threat management in the workforce at a local or corporate level.

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How to employ a behavioral approach to threat assessment Best practice organization of a threat management team Integration of physical and cyber indicators How to spot warning signs and behaviors Interview and de-escalation techniques

Our instructors’ expertise This course features a combination of expert lecture and interactive role play taught by our experts formerly of the FBI behavioral analysis unit together with our cyber security professionals.

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mitigation firm. Tobin is an ATAP Past President and Matt Taylor has attended Grace Chapel since its inception partnered with ATAP members to develop the Certified Threat Manager course of study and exam. in 1998. He joined the pastoral team in November 2016 after working in the business sector for over 25 years.

Ron Tunkel He is one of two Campus Pastors who reports directly to Ronald F. Tunkel served over 30 years as a Special Agent the Lead Pastor. His responsibilities include co-leading with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and the Security Team, leading the Men’s Community, and Explosives (ATF), capping off his career with a three-year he has oversight of the Children’s Ministry. His passions deployment as the ATF Attaché to the European Police include partnering with Kigali City Church in Rwanda Agency (Europol) in The Hague, Netherlands. There he and coaching competitive basketball in his community of led, provided, and facilitated operational and training Canby, Oregon. support to the 28 Member States and numerous third-party Georgia Thomas, M.D., M.P.H. nations and organizations, in firearms and explosives investigations, counterterrorism, and behavioral analysis/ Georgia Thomas is the Team Lead for the University of threat assessment. He was a valued member of the U.S. Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Threat Assessment Mission’s Country Team and Law Enforcement Working Team and has been a member of the team since its Group and routinely assisted the Regional Security inception in the mid-1990’s. Dr. Thomas is a Professor in Office on criminal profiling and threat matters. The most the Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control, significant portion and a certain highlight of Tunkel’s career and Employee Health at MD Anderson. She is the was the 17 years he was detailed to the Federal Bureau Executive Director of Employee Health & Well-Being, an of Investigation Behavioral Analysis Unit (FBI/BAU), at integrated, 21-person occupational health and wellness Quantico, Virginia. Tunkel was trained and certified by the department reporting jointly to Infectious Diseases and to FBI and the International Criminal Investigative Analysis the Chief Human Resources Officer. Dr. Thomas received Fellowship (ICIAF) in the discipline of Behavioral Analysis/ her B.A. with honors from Smith College, M.D. from the Ohio State College of Medicine, and her M.P.H. from the Criminal Investigative Profiling. He acquired—through education and experience—specialized expertise in University of Texas School of Public Health. She is board certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and offender profiling, threat assessment, arson and bombing behavioral analysis, statement analysis, and interviewing.

Addiction Medicine, and board eligible in occupational During his lengthy tenure at the BAU, he participated in and preventive medicine. Her clinical interests include hundreds of investigations and analyses of bombings, the transmission of infectious diseases in occupational settings, health programs for veterinary workers, physician arsons, homicides, threats, extortions, and other complex violent crimes throughout the U.S. and abroad. He provided health and impairment, and the prevention of violence onsite behavioral analysis team services to such cases as at work. She is a graduate of the Gavin De Becker & the Eric Rudolph serial bombing investigation, the deadly Associates Advanced Threat Assessment Academy, and mailed Anthrax Attacks, the Aurora, Colorado mass theater has lectured locally and nationally on threat assessment shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Tunkel has team operations. lectured extensively to both national and international law Chuck Tobin, CTM enforcement and security agencies and contributed to the behavioral science body of knowledge through extensive Chuck Tobin has more than 29 years of industry research and scholarly publications. After completing their experience serving political leaders, executives, and Diplomatic Posting to The Hague, Tunkel and his wife, Lisa, corporations in a variety of global environments which returned to their northern Virginia home, a short walk from have contributed to his long-standing expertise in risk the Quantico reservation and nearby Aquia Creek. He mitigation from targeted attacks. For more than 14 years retired and formed Aquia Behavioral Analysis & Threat he has served as the President and CEO of AT-RISK Assessment Consultancy, LLC, dba Aquia Profiling.

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Lynn Van Male, Ph.D., CTM Dr. Lynn Van Male is the national Director of the United States Veterans Health Administration’s Workplace Violence Prevention Program, the Second Vice President on the national Board of Directors of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Predating her executive leadership positions, Dr. Van Male delivered direct patient care services on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at the Portland VA Medical Center.

Dr. Van Male has an extensive history of working to prevent violence in healthcare settings, emphasizing multidisciplinary, data-driven, and evidence-based threat assessment and management practices. In recent years, she provided subject matter expertise to The Joint Commission, served as an invited member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation symposium faculty addressing targeted attack prevention, and consulted with the Performance Advisory Committee following the Naval Yard shootings. Dr. Van Male’s violence prevention solutions for healthcare settings were published in 2016 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. She was invited to Beta-Test the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Threat Management Certification exam; served on the scientific merit review committee for the 4th, 5th, and 6th International Conference on Violence in the Health Sector; and is a collaborating editor of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Over the course of her nearly twenty-year career with VHA, she has received numerous awards for her work in Threat Assessment and Management and service to returning Service Members from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dr. Van Male earned a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from the University of California, Davis. She holds a Master of Arts and a Doctorate in Philosophy, both awarded in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri – Columbia. She completed her American Psychological Association-accredited Clinical Psychology Internship at the Portland VA Medical Center in 2000.

Shawn VanSlyke Shawn VanSlyke is a Principal within Control Risks’ Crisis and Security Consulting Practice for North America, based in Washington, DC. VanSlyke focuses on issues of

insider risk and workplace violence within the corporate environment, specializing in threat assessment, case management, and the creation of prevention and response programs. He collaborates with key stakeholders— including executive management, security, legal and human resources—to develop creative strategies to protect the organization and the workforce.

VanSlyke retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a senior manager with over ten years of combined leadership experience in advancing the FBI’s behavioral and negotiation specialty programs. His last assignment included oversight of the multi-agency Behavioral Threat Assessment Center, which routinely collaborated with both the public and private sector to fashion innovative violence prevention and management strategies. As Chief of the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, VanSlyke significantly contributed to the creation of the national policy that directs the United States’ government response to international hostage matters.

VanSlyke holds a law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law School, and has been a member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar Association since 1998. He also served as the law enforcement working group chair for the 2011 ASIS/SHRM American National Standard on workplace violence prevention.

Stephen White, Ph.D. Dr. Stephen White is a psychologist and the President of Work Trauma Services, Inc. Since 1990, he has consulted on over 4,000 threat cases for numerous Fortune 500 companies, private and public organizations, law firms and their clientele, colleges and universities, and law enforcement and governmental agencies. Dr. White is the author or co-author of peer-reviewed publications on stalking, workplace and campus mass murder, violence risk assessment, autism and violence, and workplace trauma management. He and Dr. Reid Meloy developed and published The WAVR-21, a structured professional judgment guide for assessing workplace and campus violence risk, and now in its 3rd edition. He contributed a chapter on workplace violence in The International Handbook of Threat Assessment, published in 2014 by Oxford University Press, and is a Contributing Editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Dr. White is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Joe Wright, CTM

investigations, operations, and prosecutions of both Joseph Wright is the Director of Security for Lincoln Public domestic and foreign-based terrorists. UC Wyman has served as Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) supervisor and Schools in Lincoln, NE. Wright passed the Certified the terrorism program coordinator (PCOR) in both the FBI’s Threat Manager exam in 2014 and served as President Washington Field Office (WFO) and the FBI’s Richmond of the Great Plains Chapter from 2013 to 2015. He Division. In addition, UC Wyman has worked as program currently serves as Co-Chair of ATAP’s Education manager within the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, Global Community with Dr. Tina Nelson-Moss. Prior to joining Operations Unit (GOU), served in a joint duty capacity the school district, Wright served the City of Lincoln at the Guantanamo Detainee Prosecution Task Force as a police officer for 27 years, retiring at the rank of (GDPTF), and conducted numerous domestic and overseas captain. His work focused on criminal investigations, deployments in support of FBI CT operations. UC Wyman juvenile justice, racial/ethnic disparities and behavioral is a two-time recipient of the prestigious FBI Director’s health issues. Wright created the curriculum used to teach mental health issues in three of Nebraska’s four law Award for Outstanding Counterterrorism Investigation and a three-time recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s enforcement training academies. He also created the unique programming used to improve police contact with “Shield Award.” people who experience behavioral health issues featured William Zimmerman, CTM in the May 2018 issue of Police Magazine.

William J. Zimmerman is currently a Senior Consultant John Wyman with SIGMA Threat Management Associates. Prior to his retirement in October 2015, Zimmerman was a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) John Wyman is the 32-year veteran of the United States Capitol Police. In Unit Chief (UC) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 1987, he was assigned to the Threat Assessment Section Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (FBI BTAC), a (TAS) and left as the Senior Investigator. The TAS is national-level, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary task force responsible for investigating threats against Members focused on the prevention of terrorism and targeted of the U.S. Congress, their families and other statutory violence through the application of behaviorally-based operational support, training and research. In this unique protectees. The TAS reviews and evaluates inappropriate capacity, the BTAC provides investigative and operational contact with Congress Members offices in Washington DC and district offices throughout the United States. support for the FBI’s most complex, concerning, and Zimmerman conducted training in interviewing, handling, complicated international and domestic terrorism and assessing subjects who came to the attention of the investigations. In addition, the BTAC provides threat Congressional Community. He also regularly conducted assessment and threat management support to federal, security awareness seminars for the Senate and House state, local, tribal and campus law enforcement partners, Staff throughout the United States. as well as community stakeholders, working diligently across the United States on targeted violence prevention.

Significant lines of effort on targeted violence prevention include persons of concern, potential active shooters, school shootings/threats, stalking and workplace violence.

The BTAC works closely with interagency partners, academia, and the private sector to conduct research and to develop operationally focused training, tools, and techniques related to radicalization, extremism, risk management, and indicators of mobilization. The BTAC’s extensive and broad-ranging capabilities are enhanced via the 270+ BAU field coordinators assigned to all 56 FBI field offices across the United States.

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Zimmerman has been involved with the creation of numerous threat management sections throughout the United States and Great Britain. He was ATAP’s first national president and served as the Washington, DC Chapter President in 1994. He is currently ATAP’s National Treasurer. Zimmerman became a Certified Threat Manager (CTM) in 2015 and was presented ATAP’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 2017.

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