PRESENTATIONS

Upcoming 2024

North America

• Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, annual conference (November 7, 2024)

  • “The Gazette Newspaper Targeted Attack — Social Media Analysis, Target Dispersion, and a Misanthropic State of Mind”

    • Co-presenter: Dr. Reid Meloy (in-person; Whistler, Canada)

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Los Angeles Chapter (December 4, 2024)

  • “Copycat Behaviors — International Terrorism and Its Effects in Southern California”

    • Co-presenter: Dr. Nicolas Beliz (in-person; Los Angeles)

Europe

• Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program

  • 2-day terrorism prevention workshop (in-person; Albania and Kosovo)

• German State Police, Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz

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

Upcoming 2025

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Winter Conference (February 2025)

  • “Decoding Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Lone-Actor Case”

    • Co-presenter: Dr. Sharon Smith (online)

• Central Intelligence Agency

2024

• Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Branch — Counterterrorism Division (January 9, 2024)

  • Closed-door meeting (in-person; FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.)

• New Zealand Police, National Intelligence Centre — Security Intelligence Threats Group (January 25, 2024)

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

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Winter Conference (February 6, 2024)

  • “Going Dark — The Inverse Relationship between Online and on the Ground Pre-offense Behaviors in Targeted Attackers” (in-person; Orlando, FL)

• California State University (Long Beach), Communications and Violence Class (February 26, 2024)

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

• American Society for Industrial Security, South Carolina Chapter (February 27, 2024)

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

• German Federal and State Police, hosted by Landeskriminalamt Nordrhein-Westfalen (March 5, 2024)

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

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Rocky Mountain Chapter (March 14, 2024)

  • “Linguistics and Threat Mitigation: Assessing Targeted Violence Communications” (in-person; Denver, CO)

• Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Diego Field Office (April 15, 2024)

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

• Fixated Threat Assessment Centres, Australia and New Zealand (June 18, 2024)

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

• Counter Terrorism Preparedness Network (June 27, 2024)

  • “Terrorgram’s Propaganda — An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks” (online)

• New Zealand Police — National Intelligence Centre, Security Intelligence Threats Group (July 29, 2024)

  • “Terrorgram’s Propaganda — An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks” (online)

• Marine Corps Insider Threat Hub, Department of Defense (September 12, 2024)

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

• Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Florida Chapter (October 17, 2024)

  • “Terrorgram's Propaganda — An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks” (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 Intelligence Centre — Security Intelligence Threats 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” (in-person; Anaheim, CA)

  • Co-presenter Dr. Reid Meloy 

• 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)