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FBI National Academy Associates Season 3 Episode 32

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Our guests today are Julie Parker & Chief Christopher Mannino. 

Julie Parker, an Emmy award-winning former TV news reporter and
anchor, served as media relations director for major police departments and as senior media advisor for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. With 20 years of experience, she founded a communications consultancy in 2014, guiding diverse organizations across North America in internal communications and public messaging. Notably, Julie directed public information strategy for a large county government during the COVID-19 pandemic and led communications strategy for the U.S. Capitol Police post-January 6th. In her 13-year career in Washington, DC, she anchored for ABC7 News, covered 9/11 and the "Beltway Sniper" crisis, and reported from the Oscars. Julie also co-hosted a sports talk radio show and worked at C-SPAN. For seven years, she directed media relations for Fairfax County and Prince George’s County Police Departments. A University of Maryland graduate, Julie contributes to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security as a crisis communications expert and speaks at public safety conferences across the country.

Christopher Mannino retired as chief of police from a Chicago-area police department with 25 years of service in 2022. Earning a master’s degree in political and justice studies where his education focused on communications, he put theory into practice throughout his career, messaging as the face and voice of his agency through crises and critical incidents, including officer-involved shootings, serious crimes, weather events, a pandemic, civil unrest, and other major incidents. He credits attending the FBI National Academy in 2009 as his inspiration for revolutionizing his agency’s approach to public communication. Doing so earned the police department an outsized reputation for their social media outreach and media relations efforts in a major news market. Today he is Vice President of Julie Parker Communications, providing consulting and training on leadership and communications to government entities and private companies across North America. He has authored articles for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police1 and is a National Policing Institute Executive Fellow.