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APEX
VIRTUAL | ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE
FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18, 2021
9-11 a.m. Pacific / 12-2 p.m. Eastern
Meeting ID: 873 2408 3490
Zoom Link Passcode: APEX2021
New Ideas in Homeland Security
APEX 2021
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
DAY ONE | Tuesday, February 16
9:00 a.m. PST Welcome
12:00 p.m. EST Heather Issvoran, Director,
Strategic Communications, CHDS
Opening Remarks
Glen Woodbury, Director, CHDS
CHDS ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
9:10 a.m. PST ilitary Lessons: Real-time Situational
M
12:10 p.m. EST Intelligence for Election Administrators
Chad Houck, Chief Deputy Secretary of State,
Boise, Idaho
A
n Uncertain Threat:
Climate Migration to the United States
Katelin Wright, Senior Immigration Services
Officer, DHS - U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services,
Albuquerque, NM
R
escue Strike Team, an Alternative
to Rescue Task Force
Eric Saylors, Battalion Chief,
Sacramento Fire Department, CA
11:00 a.m. PST Daily Wrap-up
2:00 p.m. EST
APEX 2021
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
DAY TWO | Wednesday, February 17
9:00 a.m. PST Welcome
12:00 p.m. EST Heather Issvoran, Director,
Strategic Communications, CHDS
Opening Remarks
Debra Kirby, President,
CHDS Alumni Association
Chris Pope, Past President,
CHDS Alumni Association
CHDS ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
9:10 a.m. PST ethinking Law Enforcement Response
R
12:10 p.m. EST to Mass Gatherings & Civil Unrest
Cynthia Renaud, President, International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Hearing Muted Voices: Using Radical Subjectivity
to Address Homeland Security Issues
Lier Chen, Immigration Services Officer, DHS - U.S.
Citizenship & Immigration Services, Newark, NJ
No Crisis Left to Waste: Exploring Convergent
Themes in Extremist Propaganda
John Gordon, Team Leader, Global Trends and
Developments, Intelligence Bureau, New York City
Police Department, NY
11:00 a.m. PST Daily Wrap-up
2:00 p.m. EST
APEX 2021
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
DAY THREE | Thursday, February 18
9:00 a.m. PST Welcome
12:00 p.m. EST Heather Issvoran, Director,
Strategic Communications, CHDS
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHA
PRESENTATIONS
9:05 a.m. PST Special COVID Issue of
12:05 p.m. EST Homeland Security Affairs Journal
Lauren Fernandez, D.Sc, Instructor, CHDS
Stephen Twing, Ph.D., Managing Editor,
Homeland Security Affairs Journal, CHDS
Warnings
Unheeded, Again: What the Intelligence
Lessons of 9/11 Tell Us about the Coronavirus Today
Erik Dahl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Academic Associate
for Ph.D. Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, CA
OVID-19: Public Health, Privacy, and Law Enforcement,
C
A Precarious Balancing Act
Christopher Whiting, Counterterrorism Coordinator,
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Paramus, NJ
Wearables: Useful Sentinels of Our Health?
Matthew Austin, Executive Officer,
DHS-USCG Air Station / Sector Field Office,
Port Angeles, WA
APEX 2021
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
DAY THREE | Continues
OVID-19 Effects and Russian
C
Disinformation Campaigns
Wesley Moy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
and Adjunct Professor,
National Intelligence University
Kacper Gradon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Centre for Forensic
Sciences University of Warsaw, Poland
ow Should the National Guard Be Employed
H
for The Next National Disaster?
Paul Jara, Director of Staff,
Arkansas Air National Guard
10:25 a.m. PST C
reating a Personal Brand Strategy
1:25 p.m. EST Heather Issvoran, Director of Strategic
Communications, CHDS
Closing Remarks
Glen Woodbury, Director, CHDS
11:00 a.m. PST
2:00 p.m. EST
Adjourn
DAY ONE
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Opening Remarks
Glen Woodbury | MA0301
Director, CHDS
Monterey, CA
Glen Woodbury is the Director of the Naval Postgraduate
School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
He is responsible for leading the Center’s strategic
commitment to servicing the homeland security
educational priorities of the U.S. Departments of
Homeland Security and Defense, as well as local, state,
tribal, territorial and federal agencies. In 2018, NPS was
recognized as the #1 graduate institution for Homeland/
National Security and Emergency Management by
US News and World Report.
He served as the Director of the Emergency Management
Division for the State of Washington from 1998 through 2004.
Mr. Woodbury is a Past President (2002-2003) of the
National Emergency Management Association (NEMA,),
which represents all state and territorial emergency
management directors in the development and advocacy
of national policy, strategy and operational issues.
DAY ONE
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Military Lessons: Real-time Situational
Intelligence for Election Administrators
Chad Houck | MA2001/2002
Chief Deputy Secretary of State,
Boise, Idaho
Chad Houck is the Chief Deputy Secretary of State for
Idaho. Prior to working with the Secretary of State’s office,
Chad was a private consultant advising on operational and
process improvements in the IT and commerce space. Now
in his sixth year at the IDSOS, he currently oversees the
Elections, IT, and Corporate Divisions of the Office of the
Secretary of State and is responsible for the management
of both the state appropriated SOS budget and of the
IDSOS Federal Grants Programs. He has served on the
Idaho Governor’s Cybersecurity Task Force, and has
assisted in the development and execution of virtual and in-
person elections cybersecurity tabletop training exercises
(TTX) in partnership with both state and federal agency
collaborators including the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, Boise State University, Harvard University, and
the Idaho Office of Emergency Management. In addition
to helping create an Elections Cybersecurity Center
for Excellence at Boise State University, Mr. Houck has
expanded his contributions in the elections space through
participation as a panelist and guest speaker at multiple
elections security conferences and forums. He is a master’s
degree student with the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security at the Naval Postgraduate School, anticipating
completion in September 2021.
DAY ONE
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
An Uncertain Threat: Climate Migration
to the United States
Katelin Wright | MA1901/1902
Senior Immigration Services Officer,
DHS - U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services,
Albuquerque, NM
Katelin Wright is the Senior Immigration Services Officer
(ISO) at the Albuquerque U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) Field Office. In her current position,
she serves as lead training coordinator and the subject
matter expert on immigration eligibility and adjudication.
In addition to these responsibilities, Katelin also runs the
office’s emergency management programs and oversees the
local budget and purchases. Since joining USCIS over nine
years ago, Katelin has held a wide variety of positions within
the agency. She began her career working with the E-Verify
and Form I-9 programs in Lincoln, NE. She consulted with
businesses and other intergovernmental agencies to verify
the employment eligibility of U.S. workers. In 2013, Katelin
became an ISO at the National Benefit Center, located in
Overland Park, KS where she cultivated a passion for public
safety, national security and teaching her peers about the
intricacies of immigration law and adjudication. During this
time, Katelin also participated in the government-sponsored
New Leader Program. In the last year, she has served on
two supervisor details, and lead the project to overhaul the
District 31 adjudication process of paroles in place, deferred
action, and the recognition and accreditation program.
Katelin graduated with her MA in Security Studies from the
Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense
and Security. Her thesis, The Perfect Storm: Climate-Induced
Migration to the United States, was awarded the CHDS
1901/1902 Outstanding Thesis Award.
DAY ONE
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Rescue Strike Team, an Alternative
to Rescue Task Force
Eric Saylors | MA1403/1404
Battalion Chief, Sacramento Fire Department,
Sacramento, CA
Eric Saylors is a student, educator, futurist, and Luddite.
With 25 years in the fire service, Eric has built a record
management system, ran chain saws on burning roofs,
developed novel reporting standards, delivered enough
children to fill a small daycare, and authored over twenty
articles used to spark arguments in firehouses across the
world. He has a degree in finance and a master’s degree
in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School’s
Center for Homeland Defense and Security where he won
the Outstanding thesis award. He is currently pursuing his
Doctorate at the University of Southern California. He has a
single Post-it hanging on his locker door that reads, “I want
to make the fire service better.”
DAY TWO
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Rethinking Law Enforcement Response
to Mass Gatherings & Civil Unrest
Cynthia Renaud | MA0901/0902
President, International Association of Chiefs of Police
(IACP), Agoura Hills, CA
After spending nearly three decades in local law
enforcement, Cynthia Renaud retired as Chief of Police
from the Santa Monica Police Department in October
2020. Prior to this agency, she served as chief of the Folsom
Police Department in Sacramento county for seven years,
and prior to that, the Long Beach Police Department in
Los Angeles County for twenty years, leaving that agency
at the rank of commander. She is currently the president
of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the
world’s largest and most influential professional association
for police leaders with over 31,000 members across
165 countries worldwide. She attended California State
University, Long Beach, where she completed a Bachelor’s
Degree in English Literature in 1996 and a Master’s Degree
in English Literature in 2000. In 2010, she completed a
second Master’s Degree in National Security Studies at
the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Chief Renaud
received the Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis
submissions in both graduate programs. Chief Renaud is a
graduate of the 214th Session of the FBI National Academy.
She writes professionally and has had articles published
in the Homeland Security Affairs Journal, the Journal of
Leadership Studies, and Tactical Edge magazine as well as
the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. In 2015, Chief Renaud
was named California State Legislature “Woman of the
Year,” Assembly District 6. Additionally, in 2016, she was
selected by the Sacramento Business Journal as one of
the year’s “Women Who Mean Business” honorees.DAY TWO
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Hearing Muted Voices: Using Radical
Subjectivity to Address Homeland
Security Issues
Lier Chen | MA1903/1904
Immigration Services Officer, DHS - U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services,
Newark, NJ
Lier Chen has worked with different immigrant and refugee
populations in the United States and abroad. She has been
in government service with USCIS since January 2017 with
responsibilities for adjudicating complex and sensitive
applications and petitions for immigration benefits. Prior
to joining USCIS, she was Interim Director of U.S. Programs
at HIAS, the oldest U.S. refugee resettlement agency
where she was involved with monitoring and evaluating
HIAS programs, including overseas in Austria, Ecuador,
Panama, and Venezuela, and across the United States.
Ms. Chen served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Mongolia from
2005 to 2007. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Wesleyan University and a Master of Arts degree from the
Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis
University. In December 2020, she earned a Master of
Arts degree from the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security, Naval Postgraduate School. Her Master’s thesis,
titled, “Muted Voices: Toward an Understanding of the U.S.
Asylum Program at the Southwest Border,” won the 2020
Outstanding Thesis Award.DAY TWO
ALUMNI SHORT TALKS
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
No Crisis Left to Waste: Exploring Convergent
Themes in Extremist Propaganda
John Gordon | MA1501/1502
Team Leader, Global Trends and Developments,
Intelligence Bureau, New York City Police Department,
New York, NY
John Tully Gordon is an Intelligence Research Specialist
with the NYPD Intelligence Bureau where he serves as
the Team Leader for the Global Trends and Developments
unit. The team is responsible for providing timely, accurate,
and actionable intelligence analysis for both the NYPD’s
Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureaus on a wide
range of national security issues and terrorism-related
threats. John received his BA from Fordham University
in International Political Economy in 2010. He earned his
MA in Political Science at Fordham University where he
completed a thesis, The Scourge of the Sahel: Examining
the Rise of Boko Haram and Modern Violent Extremism in
West Africa in 2014. He earned an MA in Security Studies
concentrating in Homeland Security in 2016 from the Naval
Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and
Security where he authored a thesis, Redirected Radicals:
Understanding the Risk of Altered Targeting Trajectories
among ISIL’s Aspiring Foreign Fighters. John was awarded
an Urban Fellowship from the City of New York in 2010 and
began working for the NYPD later that year. He previously
worked at the National September 11th Memorial and
Museum at the World Trade Center.DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Warnings Unheeded, Again: What the
Intelligence Lessons of 9/11 Tell Us
about the Coronavirus Today
Erik J. Dahl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Academic Associate
for PhD Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey, CA
Erik J. Dahl is an associate professor of National Security
Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
California, where he teaches in both the National Security
Affairs Department and the Center for Homeland Defense
and Security. He is the author of Intelligence and Surprise
Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and
Beyond (Georgetown University Press, 2013).DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
COVID-19: Public Health, Privacy, and Law
Enforcement, A Precarious Balancing Act
Christopher Whiting | MA2001/2002
Sergeant, Counterterrorism Coordinator,
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office,
Paramus, NJ
Christopher Whiting is currently pursuing a master’s
degree at the Naval Postgraduate School (Cohort
2001/2002) while continuing his role as a Detective
Sergeant with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office
(New Jersey) Intelligence & Counterterrorism Unit. He
serves as Bergen County’s Counterterrorism Coordinator
(CTC) and Chair of the New Jersey Urban Area Security
Initiative (UASI) Law Enforcement Subcommittee.
For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sgt.
Whiting’s assignment is with the Bergen County Health
Department to assist in data analysis and facilitate the
sharing of COVID-19 positive patient info with Bergen
County law enforcement agencies. He holds a MS from
Farleigh Dickinson University in Homeland Security and a
BS from Manhattan College in Computer Engineering.DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Wearables: Useful Sentinels of Our Health?
Matthew S. Austin | MA2001/2002
Executive Officer, DHS-USCG Air Station / Sector Field Office,
Port Angeles, WA
Matthew S. Austin is a Commander (CDR) in the U.S.
Coast Guard with over 17 years of experience in
counterterrorism, search and rescue, and law enforcement
operations. Early in his career, he served as a Deck
Watch Officer aboard USCG Cutter BEAR (WMEC-901),
and later helped develop the Coast Guard’s Maritime
Security Response Team, the Coast Guard’s premier
counterterrorism unit under the newly established
Deployable Specialized Forces. As an aviator, CDR
Austin conducted search and rescue operations while
assigned to Air Station New Orleans, LA, and executed
multinational counternarcotic interdiction missions as a
member of the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron,
based in Jacksonville, Florida. CDR Austin served two
years as a military fellow with the U.S. Senate’s Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee before
reporting to his current assignment, as the Executive
Officer of Air Station / Sector Field Office Port Angeles,
WA. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
with an undergraduate degree in Government and is a
student at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for
Homeland Defense and Security Studies. He is married to
his best friend and hero, Heidi. Together they have two
kids, Maverick and Helena, and are currently exploring
America’s Pacific Northwest.DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
COVID-19 Effects and Russian
Disinformation Campaigns
Wesley Moy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
and Adjunct Professor, National Intelligence University
Wesley Moy, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Global
Security Studies Program in the Advanced Academic
Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an Adjunct
Professor at the National Intelligence University in the U.S.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He is a retired
intelligence officer from the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and retired U.S. Army strategic intelligence officer.
He is a plank holder of the National Counterterrorism
Center and has military command experience at the
company, battalion, and brigade levels. His expertise is in
homeland security intelligence and counterterrorism.DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
COVID-19 Effects and Russian
Disinformation Campaigns
Kacper Gradon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University
of Warsaw and the Director of UoW Center for Forensic
and Investigative Sciences
Kacper Gradon, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the
Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Forensic
Sciences at the University of Warsaw (Poland). He is
also the UCL Honorary Senior Research Associate at the
Department of Security and Crime Science and Visiting
Fulbright Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder
– Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. His
research expertise includes multiple homicide, criminal
analysis, and counter-terrorism. His current research
deals with the application of Open Source Intelligence and
digital & Internet forensics and analysis to forecasting and
combating cyber-enabled crime and terrorism (including
fake news and disinformation campaigns).DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
How Should The National Guard Be
Employed for The Next National Disaster?
Paul Jara | MA1705/1706
Director of Staff, Arkansas Air National Guard,
Little Rock, AR
Paul Jara is the Director of Staff for the Arkansas Air
National Guard. In his previous assignment, he was the
Deputy Director of Military Support for the Arkansas
National Guard and participated in several national
planning exercises to ensure Guardsmen were postured
to succeed in local, state, or national disasters.DAY THREE
COVID-19 PECHA KUCHAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Creating a Personal Brand Strategy
Heather Issvoran
Director, Strategic Communications, CHDS,
Monterey, CA
For two decades, Heather Issvoran has been the bridge
between Federal, state, local, and tribal homeland
security practitioners and officials with global thought
leaders on resilience, homeland security, and emergency
management. Ms. Issvoran scours the country ensuring the
Center enrolls the very best candidates for its executive
and graduate programs. Her responsibilities include
contract support for strategic communications, agency
outreach, student and alumni relations, recruitment, and
public affairs. She supervises and coordinates Center
communications on the national level for print, broadcast,
and web-based media, working closely with both the
Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security leadership on these endeavors. Ms.
Issvoran leads a strategic communications operation and
department that shares, shapes, and demonstrates the
impact and success stories of CHDS students, faculty,
staff and alumni and reaches out to a national audience of
academics and practitioners.
In her previous position in contract support for the
Center as the Director of Program Operations, Ms.
Issvoran enhanced and streamlined program operations
while working with government partners to accommodate
additional programmatic goals.Coming this June
APEX 2021
IN-PERSON/HYBRID | JUNE 22-24, 2021
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
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