PRESENTATIONS

Upcoming

• Central Intelligence Agency

• International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship

• Marine Corps Insider Threat Hub, Department of Defense

• Fixated Threat Assessment Centers, Australia and New Zealand

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Los Angeles Chapter

2024

January

• 01/09/24: Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Branch, Counterterrorism Division (FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.)

• 01/25/24: New Zealand Police, National Organised Crime Group (online)

February

• 02/06/24: Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Winter Conference (Orlando, FL)

• 02/26/24: California State University (Long Beach), Communications and Violence Class (online)

• 02/27/24: American Society for Industrial Security, South Carolina Chapter (online)

March

• 03/05/24: German Federal and State Police, hosted by Polizei Nordrhein-Westfalen (online)

  • Training course “early detection and management of subjects with risk potential — police threat assessment”

• 03/14/24: Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Rocky Mountain Chapter (Denver, CO)

April

• 04/15/24: Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Diego Field Office (online)

2023

• Global Network on Extremism and Technology (November 2, 2023)

  • Report launch: “Going Dark — The Inverse Relationship between Online and on the Ground Pre-offense Behaviors in Targeted Attackers” (online)

• New Zealand Police, National Organised Crime Group (October 30, 2023)

  • “Linguistics and Threat Mitigation: Assessing Targeted Violence Communications” (online)

• Canadian Symposium to Prevent Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (October 24, 2023)

  • Panel discussion on “Militant Accelerationism” (in-person; Vancouver, Canada)

• Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (October 15-16, 2023 )

  • 2-day workshop on “Forensic and Tactical Linguistics 101” (in-person; Whistler, Canada)

• Department of Homeland Security, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting, Quarterly Webinar (September 26, 2023)

  • “Linguistics and Threat Mitigation: Assessing Targeted Violence Communications” (online)

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Threat Management Conference (August 15, 2023)

  • “A Retrospective Threat Assessment of the Hanau Terror Attack: Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental Disorder and Extremist Beliefs”, co-presenter Dr. Reid Meloy (in-person, Anaheim, California)

• African Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (July 13, 2023)

  • “Forensic and Tactical Linguistics — Using Language to Assess Threats and Other Concerning Communications” (online)

• TARGET Corporation (July 12, 2023)

  • “Practical Forensic & Tactical Linguistics” (online)

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, South Central Chapter (June 6, 2023)

  • “Forensic Linguistics — Assessing Risk in Language Evidence” (online)

• Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei (German Police University; April 27, 2023)

  • “Der Terroranschlag von Hanau: ein gefährliches Zusammenspiel psychischer Erkrankungen und extremistischer Weltanschauungen” (online)

• Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals (April 25, 2023)

  • “An Introduction to Forensic & Tactical Linguistics” (in-person; Nürnberg, Germany)

• American Society for Industrial Security (April 19, 2023)

  • “Practical Forensic & Tactical Linguistics” (online)

• Federal Bureau of Investigation, Threat Assessment Regional Evaluation Team (April 17, 2023)

  • “Linguistics and Threat Mitigation: Assessing Risk in Language Evidence” (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

• Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, School Resource Deputies (April 10, 2023)

  • “How to Use Language Evidence to Investigate Cases” (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

• California State University, Long Beach — Communications and Violence class (March 1, 2023)

  • “An Introduction to Forensic & Tactical Linguistics” (online)

• Los Angeles Police Department, Divisional Training (February 14, 2023)

  • “Forensic and Tactical Linguistics” (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

2022

• Accelerationism Research Consortium — Government Response Speaker Series (Nov 14, 2022)

  • “The Contagion and Copycat Effect in Transnational Far-right Terrorism” (online)

• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — Behavioral Intervention Team (Oct 20, 2022)

  • “Forensic and Tactical Linguistics” (online)

• Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (Oct 18, 2022)

  • “Forensic Linguistics — Assessing Risk in Language Evidence” (in-person; Whistler, BC, Canada)

• Hofstra University — Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Threat Assessment and Strategic Analysis (Sep 27, 2022)

  • “Tactical Linguistics” (intensive course in “forensic linguistics”; online)

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug 22, 2022)

  • “Contagious Terrorism — The Linguistic Interconnectivity of Recent Far-Right Attacks” (online)

• American Psychological Association (Aug 6, 2022)

  • “Using Research and Tools to Better Understand the January 6th U.S. Capitol Riot” (in-person; Minneapolis, MN)

    • Focus: Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18)

• Gavin de Becker & Associates (Jul 14, 2022)

  • “Forensic Linguistics — Investigating Clues in Language Evidence” (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)

• Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (Feb 15, 2022)

  • “The Language of Suicidal Minds — Detecting Suicide Risk in Written Texts” (online)

  • Co-presenter: Dr. Amendra Shrestha

• Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (Jan 27, 2022)

  • “Forensic Linguistics in a Threat Mitigation Environment — Assessing Risk in Targeted Violence Manifestos” (online)

2021

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Los Angeles Chapter (Dec 16, 2021)

  • “Forensic Linguistics — How to Use Language Evidence to Investigate Cases” (in-person; Los Angeles, CA)