How Women Leaders in Criminal Justice Have Broken Barriers and Transformed the Field: A Career Journey Conversation

On Friday, April 24, Seton Hall University’s M.A. in Law Enforcement Executive Leadership Program will host “Amplifying Voices, Breaking Multiple Barriers: A Career Journey Conversation with Women Leaders in Criminal Justice.” The panel session will be held in the Bishop Dougherty University Center, and it is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.

This networking event will serve as an integral aspect of the program's initiative to empower law enforcement officers, criminal justice professionals, government employees and members of the Armed Services to the highest levels of leadership within their organizations.

The event will include addresses by keynote speakers, and a moderated discussion panel featuring women police chiefs, deputy chiefs and commissioners from major metropolitan departments.

It will highlight the presence of women within the field of Law Enforcement and assess the confliction between research propositions and the true commonality of their placement within positions of leadership.

Despite evidence which suggests that diverse leadership strengthens organizational effectiveness, enhances community trust and drives innovation in policing, the population of women obtaining the role of police chief nationwide is lower than 3 percent.

As agencies continue to call for reform, technological advancement and the building of diverse workforces throughout time, there have been many strategies offered by women executives which have proven to be incredibly insightful. This has continued to offer and deliver positive impact on many of the current and aspiring leaders within the field, while driving for overall beneficial change.

The event has been organized with great intent of sharing more on this, per Kishon C. Hickman, Sr., Ed.D., program director of the M.A. in Law Enforcement Executive Leadership Program in the College of Human Development, Culture, and Media. "We have assembled an extraordinary group of leaders who have served at the highest levels of law enforcement in this country,” he said. “This will not be a lecture — it will be a real conversation with real leaders sharing the
unscripted truths of their journeys. CHDCM is offering our students, our alumni, and anyone who values public safety, the opportunity to showcase women who opened the door for so many.”

To register for the event, visit the Amplifying Voices, Breaking Multiple Barriers page.

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