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Kenneth Novak

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Novak-Kenneth /images/Experts/Novak-Kenneth.webp Ken Novak is an expert in criminal justice research. He focuses on improving policing and identifying evidence-based strategies that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of policing strategies that simultaneously promote fairness and transparency. He has published scientific research on policing, citizen attitudes toward police, community policing, and racial profiling. Before joining CNA, Novak was a professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He conducted research and taught classes

Andrew Olson

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Olson-Andrew /images/Experts/Olson-Andrew.webp Andrew Olson is a specialist in wargaming. He has experience with a variety of educational and analytical approaches, with a particular interest in wargaming policy challenges, climate change wargames, and emerging technologies wargames. Olson has facilitated wargames for the National Academies, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, Pew Charitable Trusts, U.S. State Department, and the Joint Staff, among others. Prior to joining CNA, Olson worked for the Department of State examining technology cooperation challenges. He has managed several print

Heather Perez

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Perez-Heather /images/Experts/Perez-Heather.webp Heather Perez is an expert in violence reduction strategies, strategic action planning, partnership building, research partner acquisition, and drug market intervention training. She is currently the CNA project director for work supporting the Crime and Corrections Analyst in Residence Program and the National Initiatives, Law Enforcement and Prosecution training and technical assistance program. She is also a subject matter expert on the Smart Policing Initiatives grant. Over many years on the faculty of Michigan State University’s School

Keri Richardson

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Richardson-Keri /images/Experts/Richardson-Keri.webp Keri Richardson is an expert in local assessments, corrections, and collaborative reform. Richardson has supported numerous CNA projects in criminal justice, including the Strategies for Policing Innovation, the National Public Safety Partnership, Body-Worn Camera Policy Implementation Program, and the Jails and Justice Support Center. She also has experience leading and serving on teams that support law enforcement auditing, assessments, and monitoring efforts. She has served in this capacity for cities such as Chicago; Minneapolis

Gabriela Rosa Hernandez

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Gabriela I. Rosa Hernandez is a specialist in Russia's security policy.

Rosa-Hernandez-Gabriela Gabriela I. Rosa Hernandez is a specialist in Russia's security policy. /images/Experts/Hernandez-Gabriela.webp Gabriela I. Rosa Hernandez is a specialist in Russia's security policy. Her recent research has focused on Russian strategic deterrence, security orders, conventional and nuclear arms control in Europe, and the Russian military. She has significant in-country experience in Russia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Poland, and other countries in the region. Prior to joining CNA, she was a research associate at the Arms Control Association, where she focused

Paul Saunders

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Paul Saunders is a CNA expert in Russia's foreign policy and national security strategy and Russian decision-making.

Saunders-Paul Paul Saunders is a CNA expert in Russia's foreign policy and national security strategy and Russian decision-making. /images/Experts/Saunders-Paul.webp Paul Saunders is an expert on Russia's foreign policy and national security strategy and Russian decision-making. He is concurrently president of the Energy Innovation Reform Project, where he works on U.S. domestic energy and climate policy, Russia's energy strategy and policy, and U.S. engagement with Japan and South Korea on energy and technology. He is also a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Center

John Schaus

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Schaus-John /images/Experts/Schaus-John.webp John Schaus is an expert on US defense issues in the Indo-Pacific region. He has 20 years of experience conducting and leading analysis on the region. Prior to CNA, he worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has also led research at the US Army War College and worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has spent two years living and working in northeast China. Schaus earned a Master of Public Policy degree from

Casey Steadman

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. Steadman received CNA’s 2024 Institute for Public Research Principles Award, recognizing sustained excellence in achieving the institute’s guiding principles. Steadman has a dual Ph.D. in water resources

Tim Sweet

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Sweet-Tim /images/Experts/Sweet-Tim.jpg Timothy "TJ" Sweet is an expert in crime analysis for both strategic and investigative purposes. Prior to joining CNA, he worked as a crime analyst with the police departments of Detroit and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. In these roles, he was responsible for a wide range of activities, from providing assistance in defining the strategic direction of patrol divisions to providing investigative leads to detectives in gang and violent crime units. Sweet has a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice with a certificate in crime

Alison Vernon

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Alison Vernon is a Senior Research Scientist at CNA.

Vernon-Alison Alison Vernon is a Senior Research Scientist at CNA. /images/Experts/Vernon-Alison.webp Alison Rimsky Vernon has conducted studies ranging from an overview of military operations in the 1990s; US civil-military relations; the issue of interagency cooperation during military operations; the role of humanitarian operations in the War on Terror, Navy strategic laydown and global posture, and US Navy and Marine Corps integration. Additionally, and most recently, she has conducted multiple organizational analyses focusing on subjects as varied as the Maritime Operations Center