Role: Instructor

Courtney La Bau is the CEO and founder of CLB Global Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in national security issues. Across more than 20 years, La Bau has worked in … Continued

Jackie Koci Tamayo is an emergency management expert with more than 20 years of combined civil service, public administration and emergency management experience. She is the Emergency Services Coordinator for … Continued

Dr. Michele Guzman has more than a decade of experience in program development and administration across the higher education and government sectors. The crosscutting theme of her work has been … Continued

Vincent Plair is a regional director (RD) for the Rocky Mountain, Western, and Northwestern regions with the Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS), having been with the agency since … Continued

Tony McAleer has been involved in Life After Hate since its inception in 2011. He served as Executive Director from 2013-2017 while Life After Hate developed its online support groups … Continued

Dr. Heidi Beirich is an expert on American and European extremist movements, including white supremacy, nativism, antisemitism and antigovernment movements. In 2020, she co-founded the Global Project Against Hate and … Continued

Justin Feffer is the former Cyber Crime Section Lieutenant of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He was assigned to cybercrime task forces since 2004. As a sworn law … Continued

LaVonna Blair Lewis, Ph.D., MPH, is a Teaching Professor and the Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. She joined the University … Continued

Ariella Loewenstein is the Deputy Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Los Angeles. In this role, she serves as deputy to the Regional Director in the administration of the … Continued

Dr. Aquil Basheer the founder and executive director of the Brotherhood Unified for Independent Leadership Through Discipline Program (BUILD). He is an expert on violence intermediation, public safety and hardcore … Continued