Biography

Greg Miraglia has a Master’s Degree in Education, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, and is a graduate of the California Commission On Peace Officer Standards and Training Master Instructor Development Program.

Mr. Miraglia is a Dean Emeritus at Napa Valley College and currently serves as the Program Coordinator for Criminal Justice Education and Training and LGBT Studies.  He is also a part time member of the faculty at City College of San Francisco and Santa Rosa Junior College.  Mr. Miraglia teaches six different LGBT studies courses and a number of criminal justice classes including introduction to administration of justice, community policing, 21st century policing, criminal law, and criminal procedures.

Mr. Miraglia serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Matthew Shepard Foundation and is also a radio program host and producer on Outbeat Radio, a weekly LGBT program on KRCB Radio.  He is the founder and current CEO of Out to Protect Inc., a national non-profit organization serving law enforcement throughout the United States with LGBTQ+ training programs, scholarships, and grants. In 2023, he was appointed an Ambassador for the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund and Museum.

In 2021, Mr. Miraglia began working as a guest instructor at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia and was the first to present LGBT awareness for law enforcement training in the FBI Academy’s history. Over the course of his 37 years of teaching experience, Mr. Miraglia served as a recruit training officer, academy coordinator and for ten years as the director of the police academy at Napa Valley College. He has over 35 years of experience in law enforcement with three different police departments working most recently as deputy chief of the Napa Valley Railroad Police Department.

In 2011, he authored curriculum for an accredited LGBT Studies Program now offered by Napa Valley College. This was the second program of its type offered by a California college.  He expanded the program in 2018 to offer an Associate Degree.  In July of 2013, Mr. Miraglia was awarded the “Dr. John W. Rice Diversity Award” by the Chancellor of the California Community College system for his work developing hate crime prevention and diversity education programs.  He is a nationally recognized speaker and expert on LGBT issues in the law enforcement profession and education.  Most recently, he authored Assembly Bill 2504 which provides LGBT awareness training for California law enforcement officers and 9-1-1 dispatchers.  Mr. Miraglia developed the first certified LGBT Awareness For Law Enforcement online training course and a train the trainer program in response to this Bill.

After coming out himself in 2004, Mr. Miraglia decided to work with others in law enforcement who are still struggling with the pervasive homophobia that still exists in many areas of the law enforcement, the fire service, and EMS profession.  He authored four books including Coming Out from Behind the Badge (now in its third edition) and American Heroes Coming Out from Behind the Badge.

"I am passionate about the community policing philosophy and believe strongly in the need for law enforcement to be culturally competent. Sir Robert Peel said, 'the police are the people and the people are the police.'  At the heart of this all is education."