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David Binder, Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

David Binder currently serves as senior engagement liaison for the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office where he works with state and local agencies in the development of Preventive Radiological/Nuclear Detection programs. Prior to joining DNDO, he served nearly nine years as Lt. Colonel/deputy director at the Florida Department of Transportation’s Motor Carrier Compliance Office and over 16 years with the Florida Highway Patrol, where he was active in contraband interdiction and criminal investigations. He also served as the co-chair of Florida’s Preventive Radiological/Nuclear Detection Sub-Committee and the Seaport Security Standards Advisory Council. He is currently a member of the American Association of State Troopers and the State Law Enforcement Chiefs’ Association. Mr. Binder earned a master of public administration degree from Florida State University. He and his family reside in Tallahassee, Florida.

Joshua Campos, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

Joshua Campos has been in the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s department eight years; his experience includes: Criminal Investigations Division - Gang Unit, member of the SWAT Crisis Negotiations Team, general police instructor, specialized instructor- DWI/SFTS/Crisis Negotiations/Report Writing/Gang Intelligence, field investigator and a field training officer. He has earned an associate of applied science degree in criminal justice, a bachelor of science degree in human resources and criminology and a master’s degree in business and organizational security management.

Louis Casale, National Drug Intelligence Center

Louis Casale is a senior intelligence analyst with the United States Department of Justice, National Drug Intelligence Center and is assigned to the Special Projects Unit. He has worked with the law enforcement and intelligence community for more than 14 years, primarily with domestic and international organized crime and gang issues. Mr. Casale has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor of arts in international relations from the University of Lock Haven. He has attended many intelligence trainings and professional development courses at the Kent School and Joint Military Intelligence College. In addition, Mr. Casale served as a naval intelligence analyst in the United States Navy from 1985 to 1990.

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Brenda Fiegel, Foreign Military Studies Office

Brenda Fiegel is a senior intelligence analyst and the Southwest border security team leader at the Foreign Military Studies Office in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Ms. Fiegel and her team work to provide time sensitive Open Source Intelligence products for utilization by a wide variety of governmental affiliates. Ms. Fiegel received a dual master of arts degree in Spanish literature and translation and interpretation from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and the Universidad de Costa Rica in December of 2005. Currently, she is working towards a doctoral degree in international and comparative political economy at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida.

Kent Gray, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration

Kent Gray currently serves as the regional response coordinator for the Department of Energy’s Radiological Assistance Program Region 4 where he supports tribal, state and local agencies with outreach and assistance during radiological incidents. Region 4 covers Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Prior to joining DOE, he retired after 25 years of active duty in the US Air Force’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal program. Additionally, he was an unexploded ordnance program manager for 1 ½ years for a nationwide environmental remediation engineering company responsible for US Army Corps of Engineers and USAF contracts clearing UXOs on USAF bases in the United States.

Nathan Lerner, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

Nathan Lerner has been a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department for 14 years; four years infield services, five years narcotics, currently in his fourth year assigned to Criminal Investigations Division, Gang Unit. He is a general police instructor, field training officer, and specialized instructor gang intelligence. He is also the former chairman of the New Mexico Gang Task force.

Clifford M. Rees, JD, University of New Mexico, Center for Disaster Medicine

Clifford M. Rees, JD retired from New Mexico State Government after 25 years of service as a staff attorney for the New Mexico State Agency on Aging, the New Mexico Department of Health, the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and as general counsel of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. Mr. Rees spent 23 years at the New Mexico Department of Health, specializing in the areas of behavioral health, drug policy reform, public health, emergency medical services, emergency preparedness, public procurement and the legislative process. He was also the department’s lead attorney for public health emergency preparedness. He was extensively involved in the re-drafting of the NMDOH’s Emergency Operations Plan as part of the State’s Y2K preparedness efforts and the public health response to the Cerro Grande Fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mr. Rees is currently affiliated with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Disaster Medicine as a research assistant professor and works as a legislative analyst for the Senate Public Affairs Committee when the Legislature is in session.

Jason Reinhardt, Sandia National Laboratories

Jason Reinhardt manages the System Research and Analysis department in the Homeland Security and Defense Systems Center and has led several programs in systems analysis and analytical tool development focused on the US land borders. He has worked closely with the Office of Border Patrol, both in the field, and at the headquarters level to understand, characterize and assess enforcement operations and capabilities. He has also served as an analyst on Sandia’s Borders Grand Challenge, an internally funded effort to develop a borders simulation for the evaluation of technologies to enhance border security effectiveness. For the past three years he has led a program to perform systematic analyses and evaluations of technologies to improve the ability to detect and interdict illicit trafficking of nuclear and radiological materials and devices across land borders for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

Gary Richter, PhD, Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Gary Richter is currently a distinguished member of the technical staff in the Systems Studies Department of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He has been with this group for over 26 years as a national security analyst responsible for studies involving homeland security, the design of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons employment issues, nuclear weapons storage and transport, nuclear weapons security and other national-security related topics. Much of his recent experience is in the area of intelligence analysis, investigating trends in terrorism, terrorist interest in weapons of mass destruction and the capabilities of various terrorist groups. For many years, he taught courses on international terrorism at the NATO School located in Oberammergau, Germany. He also has extensive experience as an arms control monitor, having spent 16 months in Russia as an arms control inspector with responsibility for monitoring Russian compliance with the US-Russian HEU Transparency Agreement. His technical training is in physics; he received a bachelor of science degree in astrophysics from Michigan State University, a master of science degree in nuclear physics from Michigan State, and a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Texas.

Mark Rowley, New Mexico Department of Public Safety, Motor Transportation Police

LTC Mark Rowley has 20 years of diversified law enforcement experience and is currently the deputy director of the State Motor Transportation Police with the New Mexico Department of Public Safety. LTC Rowley serves as a state stakeholder representative to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and is a member of the State Emergency Response Commission. Prior to his law enforcement career, LTC Rowley was an exploration geologist with ARCO Oil and Gas Company and a commercial pilot and flight instructor. LTC Rowley holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and in his spare time enjoys bluegrass music and amateur radio.

Louis Ray Sadler, PhD, New Mexico State University

Dr. Louis R. Sadler is a historian and, with his colleague Charles H. Harris III, is currently writing a history of the Plan de San Diego, the most bizarre irredentist conspiracy in American history. His most recent books with Harris include The Secret War in El Paso; Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue 1906-1920, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920, and The Archaeologist was a Spy: Sylvanus Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence, published by the University of New Mexico Press. The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920, received the T. R. Fehrenbach Prize from the Texas Historical Commission and a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for the best contemporary non-fiction book published in 2004. Dr. Sadler was a three-time department head of history at New Mexico State University and served as the founding director of the Joint Border Research Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies. In addition, he served as the first chairman of the New Mexico Border Commission and remained on the commission for a decade. He has lectured at the National Counterintelligence Center and the Central Intelligence Agency on Mexico and the US-Mexican border. He received his doctorate in Latin American history at the University of South Carolina and is a member of the Association of Intelligence Officers.

Dwayne Santistevan, New Mexico Department of Corrections

Dwayne Santistevan has been working gang intelligence for approximately 13 years of an almost 19 year career. He started with the New Mexico Department of Corrections in January 1991. He has moved up through the ranks and held the following positions throughout his career: correctional officer, sergeant, lieutenant, STIU coordinator, deputy warden and STIU administrator.

Ron Seckinger, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Ron Seckinger currently serves as a senior intelligence officer, for the Southwest Border Branch, Border and Immigration Security Division. During a 23 year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, he oversaw intelligence analysis on Latin America and served as a counterintelligence officer and senior executive. He was the principal drafter of the interagency assessment of the damage caused by the espionage activities of former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robert Hanssen. Before joining the CIA, he spent nine years as a professor of Latin American history. Mr. Seckinger holds a bachelor of arts from Duke University, a doctorate in Latin American history from the University of Florida, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Melissa Smislova, Associate Deputy Under Secretary for Analysis, Department of Homeland Security

Melissa Smislova arrived at the Department of Homeland Security in 2004 and in January 2005 she assumed the position of deputy director to the homeland infrastructure, Threat Risk Analysis Center. Upon promotion to SES in 2007, Ms. Smislova became director of critical infrastructure, Threat Analysis Division. Ms. Smislova is an intelligence professional with 22 years of experience. During that time she has held numerous important positions throughout the Intelligence Community to include tours with CIA and DIA before coming to the Department of Homeland Security. CITA is a joint program office consisting of intelligence analysts from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and sector analysts from the Office of National Protection Programs Directorate which is charged with evaluating threats to Homeland Infrastructure. Since February 2009, Ms. Smislova has served as the acting deputy under secretary for analysis. In this capacity she has direct contact with Secretary Napolitano and the briefing staff. She is able to provide support with Daily Threat Briefings and current world situations that affect the Homeland. With the arrival of Dawn Scalici, deputy under secretary for analysis, Ms. Smislova currently serves as the associate deputy under secretary for analysis. Ms. Smislova holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian and international studies and resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband and two daughters.

Richard Stump, Sandia National Laboratories

Richard Stump has a bachelor of science degree in nuclear engineering from Mississippi State University and a master of science degree in nuclear engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has over 33 years of experience in radiation protection and emergency response. Previous experience includes coordinating radiation protection operational support for Sandia reactors, hot cells and accelerators, providing support to the Nevada Test Site for underground nuclear testing, serving as a member of Sandia’s Hazmat team, and serving as an instructor for RAPTER. Current job responsibilities include: managing Sandia’s Radiological Assistance Program, serving as a member of DOE/NNSA Offsite Emergency Response Teams including ARG and JTOT, coordinating the ARG and JTOT Health and Safety Working Groups, and planning and controlling exercises for a wide variety of DOE/NNSA and DOD exercises. He currently serves as the Region 4 contractor response coordinator for the Radiological Assistance Program in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Charles Tuberville, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

Charles Tuberville has been a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department for seven years; his experience includes history as a field training officer for five years and a crisis intervention officer for six years. He is a field investigator with advanced training in crime scene processing and has also been a member of the Criminal Investigations Division gang unit for approximately a year.

Matthew Wolke, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

Matthew Wolke has been a member of the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department for approximately five years. Prior to being a Bernalillo county detective, Mr. Wolke was a member of the DC Metro Police Department for three years. He was also a member of the gang unit for a year and a half and a member of the Sheriff's Department SWAT team for three years.