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Nick Akingbemi
Officer
UC Irvine
Officer Akingbemi is an eight-year law enforcement veteran with a Bachelor’s in criminal justice and a Master’s in Public Administration. He began his law enforcement career with the San Bernardino Probation Department as a Probation Corrections Officer and later became a police officer with the UCI Police Department. He has worked patrol as an officer and corporal and spent two years as the department’s Community Engagement Officer before returning to his current patrol assignment.
Nick is also a facilitator/instructor for California POST courses in Strategic Communications, Racial Profiling, and Crisis Intervention.
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Lyndon Barber
Senior Lead Officer
Community Safety Partnership Bureau, LAPD
Lyndon Barber has been a police officer for 14 years with the Los Angeles Police Department. After successfully completing his probationary period at Newton Division, Lyndon spent time patrolling South Los Angeles, in 77th Division. During his tenure at 77th Division, Lyndon worked the Gang Enforcement Detail for two years.
Lyndon also worked special assignments such as executive positions and undercover operations prior to his promotion to Senior Officer within Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Bureau. He started CSP in Newton Division, opening the program within the Pueblo Del Rio housing developments. A few years later, he served as Senior Lead Officer for the South Park Community in Newton Division.
Lyndon has a passion for community that coincides with his extensive training and experience in operations and engagement. His experience in the community focuses on engaging the communities and police departments to work together collectively towards the same goal. In pursuit of that goal, Lyndon has completed POST’s Instructor Development Institute (IDI) levels one and two and is currently enrolled in the IDI Advanced Instructor Course, level three.
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David Barstow
Chair, Investigative Reporting Program
Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
David is a former senior writer at The New York Times and the first reporter to win four Pulitzer Prizes. He is the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism and head of investigative reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the recipient of four Polk Awards, as well as many other prestigious awards, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from Northwestern University.
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Laura Bishin, CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE
Associate Director Systemwide Audit
UC Office of the President
Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
Laura Bishin has over 30 years of experience in audit, accounting, systems implementations, and data analytics. More recently she worked for 14 years in Internal Audit with University of California Riverside. For the last two and a half years she served as Associate Director of Systemwide Audit in the unit of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services at University of California, Office of the President. Laura is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
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Corey Chavez & K9 Max
Explosive Detection K-9 handler
UC Irvine
Officer Chavez is a six-year law enforcement veteran with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Riverside. He began his policing career as a Community Service Officer for the police department while attending UC Riverside. After graduation, he was hired as a police officer by the UC Santa Barbara Police Department and later transferred to the UC Irvine PD.
Corey has served as a Field Training Officer, Corporal, and a member of the Systemwide Response Team. He is currently one of two Explosive Detection K-9 Handlers assigned to UCIPD.
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James Cho
Detective
UC Irvine
Detective Cho is an eight-year law enforcement veteran and holds a Bachelor’s degree from UC Riverside. Before coming to UC Irvine, Cho worked as a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department and Cal State University Long Beach. He has worked as a patrol officer and is currently a detective at the UCI Medical Center. Detective Cho is a California POST-approved bicycle patrol instructor and has been instrumental in training UCI officers as well as other UC and CSU police officers in bike patrol operations and their effective use in community engagement.
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Joseph Connors
CORE Unit
UC Davis
Joseph has been at UC Davis for the last two years. He is currently assigned to our CORE unit. CORE stands for Community Outreach & Engagement. The CORE comprises regular patrol officers dressed in a less threatening uniform and assigned to patrol the campus core. The Core officers respond to non-emergency calls for service. He feels he is helping positively impact the community by continuously being a familiar, friendly face and staying engaged. He believes in being the change in the community that he would like to see.
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Terry Dalton
Professor of Teaching
Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Terry is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine; for four years she was the Director of the online graduate program in the same department. She has served as Chair of the Irvine campus Council on Faculty Welfare for two years and most recently as the system-wide Chair of the Council on Faculty Welfare. In both of these academic senate positions, Dalton has steered efforts toward community safety enhancement. Dalton’s most recent research focuses on trauma and the interface with the criminal justice system. She has received numerous recognitions for excellence in teaching including the University of Denver school-wide Scholarship of Teaching Award, the University of California, Irvine campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award and the school-wide Professor of the Year Award. She has extensive experience in designing, developing and delivering online content.
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Michelle N. Deutchman
Executive Director
UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Center
Michelle N. Deutchman is the inaugural executive director of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement (Center). In this role, she oversees the Center’s operations, programming and research including its multidisciplinary national fellowship program. Deutchman facilitates workshops for staff, students, administrators and law enforcement on First Amendment principles and how to safeguard free speech at universities while simultaneously maintaining a safe and inclusive campus climate. Her work to study and shape the national discourse on expression and engagement touches all 10 UC campuses as well as higher education institutions across the county.
Before joining the Center, Deutchman served for 14 years as western states civil rights counsel and national campus counsel for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a non-profit organization that combats bigotry, prejudice and anti-Semitism. As national campus counsel, she focused on emerging trends and challenges pertaining to free expression at colleges and universities. Her work included drafting state and federal legislative testimony and creating training modules for use with ADL’s award-winning anti-bias education program.
During her tenure at ADL, Deutchman also developed subject matter expertise on hate crime laws and how to respond to bias-motivated incidents effectively. She received certification from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and educated thousands of local, state and federal law enforcement about the First Amendment and hate crime legislation.
From 2014-2018, Deutchman taught a law seminar at UCLA School of Law that she designed, Sword or Shield: Contemporary Free Exercise Issues.
Deutchman earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
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Jason M. Ewert
Managing Attorney
Mastagni Holstedt, A.P.C.
Jason is one of the managing attorneys in the labor and employment department at Mastagni Holstedt. His practice focuses on labor and employment law, with a specific emphasis on advising and representing public employee associations and their members. He represents clients in disciplinary matters, grievances, critical incidents, unfair practice proceedings and civil writ proceedings. Jason is also a POST certified instructor and he has conducted numerous trainings concerning the Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights, Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, and other statutes guaranteeing labor and employment rights to employees.
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Lindsay Felton
Associate Clinical Social Worker
Crisis Response Team - UC Berkeley
Lindsay is an Associate Clinical Social Worker on the Campus Mobile Crisis Response team at UC Berkeley. Lindsay received her BS in Health Education from San Francisco State University and her MSW at Cal State East Bay. She has several years experience working in the Bay Area with underserved populations and in crisis counseling. She worked as a Crisis Response Clinician in San Francisco's pilot program, Street Crisis Response, providing integrated behavioral health care with EMS and peer counselors.
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Gabriel Flores
Senior Lead Officer
Community Safety Partnership Bureau, LAPD
Gabriel is a Senior Lead Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department currently assigned to the Community Safety partnership Bureau. He has over twelve years of experience as a police officer. During that time, he has worked a variety of assignments that include patrol, undercover operations, Gang Enforcement Detail, and Community Relations. He was part of the initial team to inaugurate the opening of a new community policing unit in South Central Los Angeles. He has a significant amount of experience dealing with community related operations and engagement. He has attended several training courses to develop the ever-changing path of community engagement. He is very passionate about bridging the gap between police departments and the communities they serve.
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Karla Graley
Police Officer III+I
Community Safety Partnership Bureau, LAPD
Karla was born in Veracruz, Mexico and ever since moving to the States, has been a Los Angeles native. While growing up in Los Angeles, Karla and her family were faced with many hardships which they overcame. Those hardships were never too much for her to follow her dreams of being a Los Angeles Police Officer. She is a senior lead officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. She is currently assigned to the Community Safety Partnership Bureau serving the Watts area. During her 12-year career, she has worked multiple different assignments including patrol, the parole and compliance unit, area office, as well as a variety of detective tables. Karla has been assigned to the Community Safety Partnership unit since 2018 and ever since has made a huge impact in the Jordan Downs community that she serves. She has developed amazing friendships and partnerships to improve the quality of life in the community.
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Liz Griffin
Chief
UC Irvine Police Department
Chief Griffin joined UCI in May 2019 and has over 30 years of law enforcement experience. She started her career with the Long Beach Police Department in 1992 where she worked in Homeland Security, Violent Crimes, Internal Affairs, and was the administrative assistant for city-wide patrol operations. As UCI’s Chief of Police, she manages both the campus and the medical center’s public safety administration, investigations, dispatch, and tiered response to public safety. She is a graduate of LAPD West Point Leadership Program, UC CORO Systemwide Leadership Collaborative and the FBI National Academy. She earned a B.S. in Criminal Justice at CSU, Fullerton and a M.S. in Emergency Services Administration at CSU, Long Beach.
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Christian Jacobs, M.S, LMFT
Behavioral Health Coordinator, Student Mental Health & Well-being
Graduate, Undergraduate, and Equity Affairs
Christian received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Master of Science degree in Child and Family Counseling. Christian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has an extensive background providing inpatient and outpatient direct clinical mental health services for underserved youth and adults.
Christian currently provides systemwide policy, oversight, and program development for UC campus behavioral health systems as the Behavioral Health Coordinator for the UC Office of the President, Graduate and Undergraduate Equity Affairs.
His work portfolio focuses on collegiate recovery services, clinical case management, campus crisis response, and community safety. Christian also coordinates systemwide UC committees such as the Student Mental Health Oversight Committee (SMHOC) and the Behavioral Health Community of Practice (BHCP). The UC Behavioral Health Community of Practice (BHCP) serves as a campus and community-based platform to hold behavioral health discussions for crisis response practitioners. The Behavioral Health BHCP supports the President’s systemwide Community Safety Plan.
Christian also has extensive experience reducing mental health disparities and improving health equity infrastructures for many State of California Health and Human Services Department (CalHHS) agencies.
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Maria S. Jaochico, Ed.D.
Director
Restorative Justice Practices, UCSF
Maria is the director of UCSF's Office of Restorative Justice Practices (RJP). She has worked at UCSF since 2016 and was at UC Berkeley from 2009-2016. Dr. Jaochico earned an M.Ed. in student affairs administration from Clemson University and an Ed.D. in higher education administration from the University of West Georgia. Her research focused on implementing restorative justice practices in graduate-level academic environments. In her role, she develops UCSF’s strategic implementation of restorative justice and ensures that RJP services align with UCSF's PRIDE Values and Principles of Community.
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Dr. Shalaurey Jones-Consalvo
Senior Policy Analyst
Health Well-being & Safety, UC Riverside
Dr. Shalaurey (or Dr. Jones) is a leader in Public Health and Higher Education who is a Health Education Specialist with extensive experience in harm reduction and crisis response. She received her Dr.P.H. from Loma Linda University in Public Health, Leadership & Policy Studies, with a M.S and a B.S. in Health Administration and Policy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also completed a fellowship with the Black AIDS Institute & University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, & Fielding School of Public Health in HIV in African American Communities. Dr. Jones serves as the Senior Policy Analyst within the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor of Health, Well-being & Safety.
She leads organization wide special projects, collaborates to launch new departments and initiatives related to holistic well-being, mental health, sexual assault prevention education, restorative justice, police accountability, staff engagement, and research support. Dr. Jones has extensive experience in the areas of public health, student affairs, and crisis response, and has helped lead and support institutional initiatives while working within the field of higher education for over 13 years.
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Wendy L. Lilliedoll
Director of Investigations
Office of Compliance and Policy, UC Davis
Wendy is the Director of Investigations for the UC Davis Office of Compliance and Policy. Her team conducts neutral investigations into alleged violations of University policies addressing discrimination, harassment, retaliation, policing, faculty conduct, and whistleblower concerns. Lilliedoll graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2004. Before joining UC Davis in 2014, Lilliedoll worked in Seattle, WA, where she litigated employment discrimination and harassment cases, including in the public safety arena.
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Tabbasum Malik (and K9 Charlie)
CORE Unit
UC Davis
Tabbasum has been serving with the UCDPD since June 2020. He graduated from UC Davis with a double major in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior (NPB) and Economics. He is currently assigned to the Campus Outreach and Engagement (CORE) unit, working closely with the UC Davis community. He is fortunate to be K9 Charlie’s handler as part of his daily duties. Charlie is a friendly Border Collie and Black Lab mix. Building trust and engaging with the community drive his passion for law enforcement. As part of the Outreach Division, he enjoys bridging the gap between law enforcement and our community by cultivating relationships with students, staff, and campus organizations to help.
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Mikio McCulloch
CORE Unit
UC Davis
Mikio is a former Chiropractor who felt he could help more people through Law Enforcement and subsequently changed careers. He is married with two daughters; the family spends most of their spare income fostering and training dogs for local rescues until adoption. At UCD, he is part of the CORE unit, coordinates the UCD Cadet Academy, provides Range, Arrest Control, and Active Shooter training, and background investigations for the Police Department. Mikio’s goal since coming to UCDPD has been to do whatever he can to help make the campus and medical center safe enough for his daughters to attend. He has implemented campus-wide self-defense classes for students and staff and has helped over 50 UCD Police Cadets obtain Law enforcement careers serving the community.
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Joe Oringel
Managing Director
Visual Risk IQ
Joe Oringel is a Managing Director at Visual Risk IQ, a risk advisory firm established in 2006 to help audit and compliance professionals see and understand their data. The firm has completed more than 200 successful data analytics and data visualization engagements for clients across diverse industries, including dozens of projects within Higher Education, Financial Services, and Healthcare. Visual Risk IQ is a Tableau Alliance partner and Microsoft PowerBI partner.
Joe has more than twenty-five years of experience in internal auditing, fraud detection, and forensics, including ten years of Big Four assurance and risk advisory services. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor.
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Flavio Ramos
Public Safety Responder (PSR)
UC Irvine
PSR Ramos has over 18 years of experience working for UCI. He began his career as a UCI Medical Center Security Department member, where he worked for over 12 years. In 2017, Flavio was part of the team that merged the Security Department with the UCI Police Department, creating the Medical Center’s Public Safety Division and the first “tiered response” model in the UC’s.
Flavio volunteered to move to UCI’s Irvine campus to bring his tiered response knowledge and experience as the campus replicated the medical center’s model and the simultaneous change from Public Safety Officers to Public Safety Responders.
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Constance (Connie) Rice
Lawyer
Connie Rice is a lawyer and author renown for coalition legal cases and campaigns that challenge systemic injustice and advance multiracial democracy. Her work has won over $10 billion in lawsuit damages and policy changes that expanded safety and opportunity for millions in poor neighborhoods. Rice’s advocacy has earned over 50 major awards and prompted Los Angeles Magazine to call her “the voice for LA’s oppressed.”
The hallmarks of her work— game-changing strategy, unlikely alliances, bold action, and systemic impact—yielded extraordinary success inside and outside of the courtroom. In 2004, Rice and her colleagues at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund represented Los Angeles bus riders in a landmark public transit case that won the largest civil rights settlement in U.S. history.
In other winning coalition lawsuits, Rice stopped police misconduct, race and sex job discrimination and unfair policies in probation, public housing, environmental justice and capital punishment. Rice and her partners also spearheaded a school construction campaign that won a $750 million case settlement, helped pass over $15 billion in local school construction bonds, and, in the nation’s largest school building program, oversaw the construction of 135 new schools. On this record, California LawBusiness designated Rice as one of California’s top ten most influential attorneys, and declared that she and her law partners had “picked up where Clarence Darrow left off.”
In her most important work outside of the courtroom, Rice galvanized the police, community and government to transform inner city policing and end a gang homicide epidemic. With LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who calls Rice “the conscience of the City,” she pioneered the Community Safety Partnership, a UCLA validated safety strategy that replaces mass incarceration enforcement with holistic guardian policing in high violence neighborhoods.
In 2013, the Independent Sector awarded Rice the John W. Gardener Award for being “the indispensable architect of the transformation of…Los Angeles’ approach to both policing and to its longstanding gang epidemic.” And President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing selected Rice as a member for her experience in transforming warrior policing.
Rice grew up in the military, graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges in 1978 and attended NYU School of Law as a Root Tilden Scholar. She clerked for the Honorable Damon J. Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, served for nine years as Western Regional Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and co-founded both the Advancement Project and the Urban Peace Institute. Her memoir, Power Concedes Nothing, is a call to action lauded by Dr. Cornel West, William J. Bratton and Ret. General Stan McChrystal. Her most prized credential, however, is her black belt in Tae Kwon Do from Suk Yung Chung.
Reflecting on what drives her, Rice says, “I am the great-granddaughter of FORMER slaves because, on their watch, rebel slaves and abolitionists died to end slavery. It is a privilege to pay that debt forward on mine.”
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Carroll Seron
Professor Emerita
Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
Carroll is Professor Emerita in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Carroll Seron studies the organizations and culture of the professions, including law, policing and engineering. Throughout her career, her research has asked whether and to what extent organizations deliver on their promise to ensure equity and fairness in the administration of their services. Seron has published her research findings in such social science journals as Law & Society Review, Criminology, Work & Occupations, Annual Review of Sociology, Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences and American Sociological Review among other peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. Carroll Seron is a former Editor of Law & Society Review, Volumes 42 to 44 and was President of the Law & Society Association from 2013-2015.
Beginning in 2018, she served as founding Chair of the Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC); in that capacity, she sought to bring insights from her research to the role of PSAC so that it may serve all members of the UCI community, including students, staff, faculty and residents of University Hills. In her retirement, she is also working with colleagues at UC Irvine to develop a demonstration project to extend access to currently incarcerated students to earn a B.A. degree through the University of California.
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Julie Shackford-Bradley
Director, Restorative Justice Center
UC Berkeley
Julie is the co-founder and Director of the Restorative Justice Center at UCB. I’ve been a mediator and RJ facilitator on campus and in the community for more than 15 years, and currently teach courses on Restorative Justice and Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Legal Studies. As Director of the RJ Center, I have worked with amazing partners to create and supports peer-peer RJ teams for undergraduates and graduate students, and to gather teams of RJ facilitators from the Bay Area to work with staff and faculty. Part of my work is to develop and maintain relationships with RJ community partners working in communities and at fellow UCs, and in Higher Ed across the country. In our work and our trainings and workshops, we emphasize a needs-centered approach and the importance and power of relationships of active listening, self-reflection and intentional communication. Every day at the RJ Center, it is an honor to be able to collaborate with others to create spaces for community building, for focusing more on relationships and acknowledging and celebrating our interconnectivity and for restorative options for responding to conflict and harm.
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Robert Sotelo (and K9 Cali)
CORE Unit
UC Davis
Robert is a 20-year veteran of the UCDPD. He has served in multiple roles, including motorcycle/traffic patrol, several instructor roles, and, most currently, a CORE K9 Handler with his new puppy partner. He spent his career serving the Davis and Sacramento campuses, building strong relationships within both communities. He has an amazing wife and three incredible children who support and reflect his work and effort. For years, he has been a vocal ally and advocate for our diverse community and is excited to be part of building a new, more positive image for law enforcement.
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Jeff Talbott
Director of Campus Safety Services and Chief of Police
Health Well-being & Safety, UC Riverside
Chief Talbott joined UCRPD in December 2022, following 11 years as the Associate Vice-President/ Chief of Public Safety and Director of Emergency Management at the University of Redlands. Prior to that role, Jeff served 29 years with the California Highway Patrol, working a variety of assignments throughout California, retiring as the Chief of the Inland Division, which encompassed the counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, Mono, and Kern. Jeff is a service-oriented, quality-focused public safety leader with a commitment to community outreach and collaborative relationships.
Jeff holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. At UC Riverside PD, Jeff leads a team of both sworn Police Officers and non-sworn Campus Safety Responders in a holistic, tiered-response model of serving and responding to the safety needs of the campus community.
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Iris Yoo
Senior Analyst to the Chief of Police
UC Irvine
Iris Yoo is the Senior Analyst to the Chief of Police at UC Irvine. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego and a Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate. Prior to joining the UCI Police Department in 2019, she worked for the UCI’s Office of Academic Integrity & Student Conduct and UCI’s Division of Continuing Education. Before coming to UCI, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC.
As the Senior Analyst to the Chief, she manages and coordinates the Community Police Academy, coordinates internal and external training, ensures the police department’s training compliance, maintains the police department’s training program, and conducts research projects for the Chief.
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Cedric Young
Accreditation Manager
Police Department, UC Irvine
Cedric is a UCI alumnus and prior to joining the UCI Police Department, he had the opportunity to work at Google to support the United States and Canadian Google Maps Street View operations. While working at the UCI Police Department, he has served in several roles including as Community Service Officer Program Manager, Court Liaison, and as Property & Evidence Analyst. He is currently the IACLEA Accreditation Manager.
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