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Mass Shootings in the United States: What Makes Us Unique?
Mass Shootings in the United States: What Makes Us Unique?
Date: May 9, 2024
Time: 5:00pm - 8:30pm
Place: Milgard Hall (MLG) 110
Details
Nationally prominent experts on mass shootings will discuss why the United States has so many more mass shootings than any other country. This will be open to the entire UW community including students, faculty, and staff as well as the larger public.
All are invited to invited to attend this free event but RSVP's are appreciated to help us prepare refreshments. LIght refreshments will be served.
Featuring:
- Dr. Adam Lankford, Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
- Dr. Daniel Gascón, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Kristina Anderson Froling, international advocate in the fields of bystander intervention, active shooter response and violence prevention within schools, workplaces and public spaces; and founder of the Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools
Featured Speakers
Dr. Adam Lankford
Dr. Adam Lankford is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama. He is the author of two books and many peer-reviewed studies on mass shootings, terrorism, and other forms of criminal behavior. His findings have been published in many scientific journals and cited by The White House, by every major media outlet in the United States, and by international media from more than 40 countries. From 2003 to 2008, Dr. Lankford helped coordinate Senior Executive Anti-Terrorism Forums for high-ranking foreign military and security personnel as part of a contract with the U.S. State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance program. In 2019, Dr. Lankford received the “Innovation in Research and Publication Award” from the National Association for Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment.
Dr. Daniel Gascón
Daniel Gascón is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Research Fellow at the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, and the Labor Resource Center. Daniel’s current research combines sociology, criminal justice, law, and history. He has published in scholarly journals such as Race & Justice, Social Justice, and Social Problems. Daniel is the lead author of the book, The Limits of Community Policing (New York University Press), and he is the lead author of the forthcoming book, Policing and State Crime in the Americas (Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing). Daniel is also the founder and director of the Racial Justice Laboratory.
Kristina Anderson Froling
Kristina Anderson Froling is an international advocate in the fields of bystander intervention, active shooter response and violence prevention within schools, workplaces and public spaces.
Kristina is founder of the Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools, a non-profit that provides training on the prevention of school and workplace violence, education on active shooter preparedness, and consultation on post-crisis recovery. Ms. Froling travels extensively within the United States and Canada to spread the importance of preparedness and joint training between citizens, educators, law enforcement, emergency managers, and first responders. Ms. Froling started the non-profit after becoming one of the most critically injured survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech school tragedy, where she was shot 3 times.
Ms. Froling is also co-founder of LiveSafe, a mobile technology communication platform for sharing safety-related information that is used by over 100 college campuses, as well as corporations and hospitals.
Ms. Froling has delivered training to numerous law enforcement and government agencies, as well as schools and workplaces to include school resource officers, university administrators, fire and emergency managers, FEMA, the FBI and private corporations. She is a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in International Studies.
