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2008 National Campus Security Summit
Speaker Profiles
Marisa R. Randazzo, Ph.D.
President,Threat Assessment
Resources International, LLC
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Marisa Randazzo is President of
Threat Assessment Resources
International, a private company
providing threat assessment
training, consultation, and research
services to schools, businesses,
security companies, and law
enforcement agencies.
Dr. Randazzo is a national expert on
threat assessment and targeted
violence prevention. Before joining
the private sector, Dr. Randazzo
served for ten years with the U.S.
Secret Service, most recently as the
agency's Chief Research
Psychologist. She directed Secret
Service research on assassination,
insider threats, security
violations, stalking, and other
types of targeted violence.
Dr. Randazzo was co-director of a
landmark federal study of school
shootings and is co-author of the
U.S. Secret Service/U.S. Department
of Education model of school threat
assessment. She is also an
accomplished presenter and
instructor on threat assessment
investigations, having trained over
10,000 law enforcement,
intelligence, and security
professionals throughout the United
States, Canada, and the European
Union. Her research is used in the
federal, state, and local law
enforcement communities and has been
credited with preventing planned
attacks.
Prior to founding Threat Assessment
Resources International, Dr.
Randazzo served as a Senior Expert
with Business Intelligence Advisors,
Inc., where she provided high-net
worth families, corporations, and
schools with investigative
consultation on individual threat
cases and training on threat
assessment, bomb threat assessment,
and the detection of deception. She
also provided training on abduction
prevention and escape tactics for
children of high-net worth families,
their caregivers, and protective
details. Dr. Randazzo has testified
before Congress and has been
interviewed repeatedly by national
and local television, radio, and
print news outlets. She has
published numerous articles on
threat assessment and violence
prevention (including under her
maiden name, Marisa Reddy) and
served on the editorial board of the
Journal of Threat Assessment.
Dr. Randazzo received a Ph.D. and
Master's degree from Princeton
University in Social Psychology, and
a B.A. in Psychology and Religion
from Williams College. In 2005, Dr.
Randazzo was awarded the Williams
College Bicentennial Medal for her
work in preventing violence.
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