Dr. Dean A. Haycock

Dean A. Haycock is a science and medical writer living in New York. He earned a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Brown University and a fellowship at The Rockefeller University. The results of his research, conducted in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry, have been published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic journals. He is the author of “Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil," "Characters on the Couch, Exploring Psychology Through Literature and Film," and other titles.

Dr. John Horgan

John Horgan is Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University (GSU). He has a PhD in psychology, and holds joint appointments at GSU’s Global Studies Institute and Department of Psychology. His research examines terrorist behavior. Dr. Horgan’s current projects are concerned with the role of religious converts in terrorism, how children are recruited to terrorist organizations, and how the Islamic State movement uses social media. His work is widely published, with books including The Psychology of Terrorism, Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists; Walking Away from Terrorism, Leaving Terrorism Behind, and Terrorism Studies: A Reader. He is Associate Editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several further journals, including Legal and Criminological Psychology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Journal of Strategic Security. He is a member of the Research Working Group of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He has held positions at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), Penn State, University of St. Andrews, and University College, Cork. Professor Horgan’s research has been featured in such venues as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, CNN, PBS, Vice News, Rolling Stone Magazine, Nature, Scientific American and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Dr. Michael Jensen

Michael Jensen is an Assistant Research Scientist at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland where he serves as the Data Collection Manager for the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and the Principal Investigator for the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Arizona State University and was formerly the Associate Director of the Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods (CQRM) at Syracuse University.

Dr. Terri Patterson

SSA Terri Patterson entered the FBI in 1997 and was assigned to the Miami Division where she investigated and supervised a variety of criminal matters. She later served in the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID) and Office of the Associate Deputy Director before being assigned to CIRG’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. She is currently assigned to BAU-1 where she provides behavioral threat assessment and management strategies related to international terrorism investigations.

SSA Patterson holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. Her research interests include the study of pathways to extremist violence, the role of women in terror groups and the radicalization of juveniles. Her past research in the areas of witness memory, behavioral indicators of deception and the trafficking of juveniles has been presented at national conferences sponsored by organizations including the American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychology & Law Society and the National Conference on Science & the Law.

Dr. Elaine Pressman

D. Elaine Pressman, is a recognized expert in the risk assessment and analysis of violent political extremism. She is the developer of internationally used and accepted evidence-based structured and scientific risk assessment analytical tools for the individual risk of violent extremism. The most current version (2016) is referred to as the VERA 2R which was developed in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology in the Ministry of. Security of justice.

She has developed other national security risk assessment tools for Insider Threat and Cyber-related risk analysis. Her work and tools are currently being used by national security related government agencies on four continents including many countries of the EU, Australia, North America and Asia.

Dr. Pressman obtained her B.A. Degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada (Political Science), and M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from The Ohio State University, USA in Defence and Communication Sciences. She completed post-doctoral training in forensic acoustic analysis (Michigan State University/ Michigan State Police), and in Psychology (Carleton University, Ottawa, Switzerland).

She has advised many governments at a senior level, has served on Minsterial Advisory Boards and has been a Scientific Expert to The EU, The Council of Europe, the GCTF, UNODC, the FBI, the RCMP and other international organizations. She has been the recipient of many prestigious research grants, contracts and awards and she has trained forensic professionals and national security analysts around the world. Her risk assessment work is available in English, French, Dutch, German, and is being translated into Finish and Bahasa. ‎ She is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow and Scientific Expert with the Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice, an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague and a Senior Fellow the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. Dr. Pressman has over 35 years of clinical experience, university teaching, and research. She has published articles and chapters in the risk assessment field of violent extremism and is widely cited. She has won professional peer recognition for her work and is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Forensic Practice formerly the British Journal of Forensic Practice) and the Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice.

Dr. Ralph Serin

Dr. Serin received his Ph.D. from Queen's University in 1988 and has been registered with the Ontario College of Psychologists since 1990. He worked in federal corrections from 1975-2003 in various capacities and is now a Professor at Carleton University where he is Director of the Criminal Justice Decision Making Laboratory and member of the Forensic Psychology Research Center.

He has consulted with the National Institute of Corrections, the Centre for Effective Public Policy, Correctional Service of Canada and Parole Board of Canada, and is an advisor to the National Parole Resource Centre (US) and the Parole Board of Canada. He has also provided training and or currently engaged in research collaboration with the Departments of Corrections in numerous US states and internationally regarding violent offenders, dynamic risk assessment, evidence-based practice, parole decision making, and offender change. He received the President’s Award from the Association of Paroling Authorities International (2015) and the Margaret Mead Award from the International Community Corrections Association (2013) for his work in parole and community corrections, respectively. He has received grants relating to probation/parole officers and offender change from BJA and NIJ. He is a member of the Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel in the United Kingdom.

He has published in the areas of crime desistance, parole, treatment readiness and responsivity, offender change, risk assessment, psychopathy, sexual offenders, and the assessment and treatment of violent offenders.

Dr. Jay p. SIngh

Jay P Singh, PhD, PhD is a Fulbright Scholar and the internationally award-winning President and CEO of the Global Institute of Forensic Research. Former Senior Clinical Researcher in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology for the Department of Justice of Switzerland and fellow of the Mental Health Law and Policy Department at the University of South Florida, he completed his graduate studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and clinical Psychology at Universitat Konstanz. Since this time, he has lectured for Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and UPenn. He was promoted to Full Professor at Molde University College in Norway in 2014 and is currently affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and the Wharton School of Business at UPenn. Dr. Singh has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognition from organizations including the prestigious 2015 Saleem Shah Early Career Excellence Award from the American Board of Forensic Psychology and 2015 Early Career Professional Award from APA Division 52. Additional bodies of recognition have included the American Psychology-Law Society, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Society for Research in Adolescence.

Mannone A. Butler, Esq.

Ms. Mannone A. Butler is an accomplished Executive Director and criminal justice professional blending over fifteen years of legal and policy experience with her passion for the community; Ms. Butler currently serves as the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC). The CJCC is an independent District agency that serves as a forum for identifying issues and their solutions, proposing actions and facilitating cooperation to improve public safety in the District of Columbia for its residents, visitors, victims and offenders.

As Executive Director, an appointed position she has held since May 2011, she is responsible for bringing together local, federal, legislative, executive, and judicial leaders to develop comprehensive strategies to address long-standing and emerging criminal and juvenile justice issues facing the District of Columbia. Ms. Butler oversees the District’s integrated justice information system, JUSTIS, and the District’s Statistical Analysis Center. Further, she is responsible for developing process efficiencies for the optimization of agency resources, reviewing cost drivers and monitoring effective performance metrics. In this role, Ms. Butler has provided comprehensive organizational leadership. Under her management, the CJCC has been designated a criminal justice agency for information sharing purposes and received an Excellence.gov award for Intergovernmental collaboration in 2012 for JUSTIS.

Upon joining the CJCC in 2006 as its Legal Advisor and Program Analyst, Ms. Butler provided legal counsel to the agency on criminal and juvenile justice matters; and helped guide the agencies’ strategic priorities with a specific focus on re-entry, emergency planning and grants planning. She was instrumental in streamlining business operations and made recommendations to improve operations, which included development and management of standard operating procedures (SOPs). During her tenure, Ms. Butler was tapped to serve as CJCC’s Interim Executive Director, and then advanced to become the agency’s Deputy Executive Director before her appointment to lead the agency.

Prior to joining the CJCC, Ms. Butler practiced law with the Law Offices of Curtis T. White, P.C. and served as Director of Program Operations for the Urban Family Institute where she managed all of the organization’s programmatic efforts; streamlined its models, policies and strategies to create sustainable community-based initiatives; and developed the Bridge, a program, supported by Maryland’s Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services and in partnership with the Eastern Correctional Institution, for incarcerated fathers to engage and stay connected with their children.

Ms. Butler is a native Washingtonian and attended DC public schools. She later earned her B.S. in Finance from Georgetown University and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating law school, Ms. Butler served as a Law Fellow for Georgetown University Law Center’s Street Law Clinic.

Jon Gustin

Jon Gustin has worked with the Federal Bureau of Prisons since October 1997 when he joined as a Correctional Officer at the Federal Detention Center in Seattle Washington. He has since then assumed positions of increasing responsibility with a focus on Residential Reentry Management (Community Corrections). He is currently the Administrator, Residential Reentry Management Branch since June 2015 and his duties include the development and administration of community-based programs to include Residential Reentry Centers. His staff further serves as the Bureau's local liaison with the Federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, State and local corrections, and a variety of community groups. The Bureau's community-based programs are administered by staff of the Residential Reentry Management Branch in Central Office, Washington, DC, Residential Reentry Sector Management teams in three locations, and employees of 24 RRM field offices throughout the United States. The field offices are responsible for all residential reentry activities within their assigned judicial districts. His prior positions include: Privatization Field Administrator, Central Office; Assistant Administrator, Residential Reentry Management Branch; Program Review Examiner, Central Office; Residential Reentry Manager, Minneapolis, MN; Residential Reentry Specialist, Seattle, WA; Correctional Counselor, FDC Seatac and Correctional Officer at FDC Seatac.

Dr. Miranda Faust

Dr. Miranda Faust started her career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2001 as a Psychology Intern at FCI Tallahassee, FL. She went on to serve as a Psychologist and Program Coordinator over two treatment programs in other BOP facilities. In 2008, she transferred to Internal Affairs and in 2016, she moved into her current position as the Assistant Adminstrator of the Counter Terrorism Branch for the BOP. Dr. Faust holds a Doctorate in Forensic Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.

Leslie A. Hagen

Leslie A. Hagen serves as the Department of Justice’s first National Indian Country Training Coordinator. In this position, she is responsible for planning, developing and coordinating training in a broad range of matters relating to the administration of justice in Indian Country. Previously, Hagen served as the Native American Issues Coordinator for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. In that capacity, she served as EOUSA’s principal legal advisor on all matters pertaining to Native American issues, among other law enforcement program areas; provides management support to the United States Attorneys’ Offices (USAOs); and coordinates and resolves legal issues. Hagen is also a liaison and technical assistance provider to Justice Department components and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Native American Issues.

Hagen started with the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the Western District of Michigan. As an AUSA, she was assigned to Violent Crime in Indian Country handling federal prosecutions and training on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse affecting the eleven federally recognized tribes in the Western District of Michigan. Ms. Hagen has worked on criminal justice issues related to child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault for over 20 years.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, she served as the staff attorney with the Civil Legal Justice Project for the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and as a specialist in Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice. From 1997-2001, Ms. Hagen served as the Violence Against Women Training Attorney for the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan. During her 4.5 years in that position, Ms. Hagen developed a program that was recognized as Aone of the best state-level training programs on violence against women in the country@ by the Institute for Law and Justice in Washington, DC through an evaluation conducted for the Department of Justice. Ms. Hagen was the elected Prosecuting Attorney for Huron County, Michigan for two terms, an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Midland County, Michigan and a Prehearing Division Attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Throughout her career, Ms. Hagen has received several honors, including the 2013 and 2010 Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in Indian Country and a Director=s Award from the Department of Justice in 2004. She received appointments in 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007 to the position of Chair for the State Bar of Michigan’s Domestic Violence Committee, gubernatorial appointments to two terms on Michigan’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, and the 1991 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the State Bar of Michigan.

Ms. Hagen is a graduate of Alma College and Valparaiso School of Law.

Sidney S. Hays III

Sid Hays is an Intelligence Analyst for the FBI's Open Source program at FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC. He has been with the FBI for just over 9 years and has been working in the Open Source program for 4 years. He is an instructor for the FBI's Open Source courses. IA Hays has also completed temporary duty assignments for FBI Buffalo's Joint Terrorism Task Force and deployed to Afghanistan in support of the FBI's counterterrorism mission there. He received a Bachelor's in International Relations from American University and a Master's in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University. IA Hays is also a Captain in the US Army Reserves, assigned to the Military Intelligence Readiness Command. He is originally from Upstate, New York.

Maureen Q. McGough

Maureen Q. McGough is an attorney and senior policy advisor in the National Institute of Justice’s Office of the Director. Maureen oversees the development and implementation of NIJ’s Sentinel Events Initiative, an effort to build a mechanism for learning from error in criminal justice that unites criminal justice practitioners and the communities they serve. Maureen is also responsible for the developing the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) program at NIJ, which supports law enforcement officers and agencies to develop and implement their own research agenda and projects, as well as integrate results into policy and practice. In addition, Maureen co-manages NIJ’s program to support State Department counter-poaching efforts with the Kenya Wildlife Service. Maureen previously served as counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, with a focus on countering violent extremism and building communities of resilience. Additional previous experience includes coordinating federal AIDS relief effort for the State Department in Kigali, Rwanda, and serving as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Annie Rohrhoff

Annie Rohrhoff currently serves as the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Representative to the Midwest, working with federal, state, local, and private sector partners to enhance their counterterrorism capabilities. Annie has worked a broad range of terrorism-related issues since joining NCTC in 2011 in the Directorate of Intelligence. Most recently, Annie served as a President's Daily Briefer at the National Security Council. Annie joined the Intelligence Community in 2009 as an al-Qa'ida analyst at the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in Tampa, Florida. Annie is a recipient of the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholar Program fellowship and the NCTC Director's Team Award for her work during a terrorist attack against US interests. Prior to joining the IC, Annie worked as a research assistant at two DC-area think tanks and authored articles for a variety of publications, including the Washington Times and the New York Times. Annie received her BA in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS from George Mason's School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Holly J. Trask

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Holly Trask is the supervisor of program management within the National Joint Terrorism Task Force 1 (NJTTF1) of the Counterterrorism Division (CTD) at FBI Headquarters. NJTTF1 is responsible for the administration of 184 JTTFs within the FBI 56 field offices and an additional 128 resident agencies (RAs), and also encompasses the Correctional Intelligence Program, the Military Operations Support Team, the Agency Coordination Team, the Tripwire Program, and Witness Security Coordination and Assessment Program.

After joining the FBI in 2003, Ms. Trask was assigned to national security matters in the New York Division, specializing in human source development and covert case work. In 2008, Ms. Trask was assigned to the securities fraud team and worked a variety of financial crime investigations from complaint to incarceration.

In May 2012, Ms. Trask was promoted to SSA in the Terrorist Financing Operations Section, where she was responsible for managing the financial components of counterterrorism investigations across several FBI field offices. In May 2014, she joined the NJTTF, where she currently heads up JTTF program management and briefly, the Correctional Intelligence Program.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Trask was a senior consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton specializing in managing user requirements for government IT systems. Ms. Trask earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science (MS) in Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009, she earned an MS in International Affairs from New York University.

Jennie Werneck

Jennie Werneck was a United States Probation Officer in the Southern District of California from 1997-2002 before joining the FBI. She currently works in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division in the Internet Operations Section as a Program Manager for cases falling under Terrorist Use of the Internet (not to be confused with Cyber investigations).

Jalon Arthur

Jalon Arthur has dedicated 14 years of humble program service with Cure Violence, an evidence-informed public health approach scientifically proven (5 independent evaluations) to reduce violence. Mr. Arthur currently serves as Director of Innovation & Development tasked with adapting the Cure Violence health approach to address multiple forms of violence (e.g., domestic violence, child maltreatment, prison violence, school violence, violent extremism, etc.), and developing technology platforms (e.g., phone apps, gaming, social media strategies, etc.) to further enhance the program impact of Cure Violence.

Mr. Arthur designed and piloted an innovative rapid-reduction model to provide immediate relief for communities with chronic, debilitating levels of violence that impede efforts and impacts of other local services provided. A pilot was implemented in 2015 in the most violent district in Chicago (District 007) during a peak period for violence (July 2015) which led to a 50% decline in shootings, and a 70% decline in homicides during pilot intervention; findings supported by an independent analysis conducted by the University of Chicago’s Center for Youth Violence Prevention.

During his tenure, Mr. Arthur has passionately served in several program roles including leading Cure Violence’s National training and technical assistance efforts, and playing an instrumental role in setting up Cure Violence replication sites in various U.S. cities and International countries: South Africa, Morocco, New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Puerto Rico, etc. As an individual who formerly engaged in violence, he is passionately committed to training and empowering “credible messengers” from the communities to interrupt the cycle of violence via innovative public health and epidemic-disease control strategies, and technology. Additionally, Mr. Arthur has played a lead role in securing support services (mindfulness, trauma-informed care, counseling, etc.) for staff and high risk youth to further aid their growth and development as future leaders.

Eelco Kessels

Eelco Kessels is Executive Director of the Global Center, overseeing its strategic and organizational direction and daily operations. Additionally, he coordinates research and programming activities related to managing and reintegrating terrorism offenders, identifying and addressing violent extremist radicalization in prisons, countering violent extremism, and rule of law–based approaches to counterterrorism. He has been leading the Global Center’s support to the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s Detention and Reintegration Working Group, including the development and implementation of the CVE in Prisons Program. From 2010 to 2014, he worked as Programme Manager at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague. Previously, he was a researcher in counterterrorism at Leiden University and worked for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London. He holds a BA (cum laude) in international law and conflict studies from University College Utrecht and an MA (with distinction) in international peace and security from King’s College London.

Daniel Koehler

Daniel Koehler studied Religion, Political Science and Economics at Princeton University and Free University Berlin. After having finished the postgraduate program ‘Master of Peace and Security Studies’ at the University of Hamburg he specialized on terrorism, radicalization, and de-radicalization. He worked as a de-radicalization and family counselor in multiple programs and developed several methodological approaches to de-radicalization, especially family counselling programs around the world. Daniel Koehler is also the co-founder of the first peer reviewed open access journal on de-radicalization (www.journal-derad.com), which he created together with the German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies (GIRDS) in 2014. In June 2015 Daniel was named a Fellow of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. In 2016 he was appointed to be the first court expert on de-radicalization in the United States of America at the District Court in Minneapolis. He has since then conducted risk assessment and de-radicalization evaluations of terrorist offenders in prison and trained expert personnel focusing on the Office for Probation and Pretrial Services in Minneapolis. Since 2016 he also works with the Ministry of the Interior in Baden-Württemberg/Stuttgart to help coordinate the state wide prevention network against violent extremism and radicalization.