She served as a member of the “Executive Session on Policing” at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2011-2014; served on the “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing” in 2015; is a consultant with the NYU Law School Policing Project to Reimagine Policing; is the Co-Founder of the Center on Police Culture; serves as an advisor to many national police reform programs and organizations including the Council on Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, and the Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety and Project ABLE (Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement).
She has served on many non-profit community and professional boards, including as President of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, Commissioner for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, Executive Board member for the National Sheriffs Association, and member of the Board of Directors for the National Policing Institute.
She graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Criminal Justice from Washington State University and is a graduate of the National Sheriff’s Institute and the FBI National Executive Institute. She co-authored the seminal academic paper about transforming the training culture at the WA State Criminal Justice Training Commission – published in 2015 by the Harvard Kennedy School and the National Institute of Justice – introducing the national dialogue on shifting police culture from warriors to guardians.
