Alex Goldenberg is the Lead Intelligence Analyst at the Network Contagion Research Institute, focusing on misinformation, disinformation, online extremism, and the intersection of technology and hate. Alex has an MS in Global Affairs with a concentration in Transnational Security from New York University. His recent research on the Boogaloo movement, antisemitism, and QAnon has appeared in NBC News, The Atlantic, CNN, The Brookings Institute, NPR, Forbes, Vice News, and other notable media outlets.

Glen Mills is a lieutenant with the Burlington Massachusetts Police Department. He began his career as a part-time police officer in 1992 and became a full-time officer in 1996. He was promoted to sergeant in 2001 and lieutenant in 2007. In 2018, after 22 years in the Patrol Division, he was assigned to the Administrative Division and currently oversees Training, Community Services, Emergency Management, Information Technology, and Dispatch.

Glen is the department’s Criminal Intelligence Liaison Officer with the Massachusetts State Police Fusion Center, Officer in Charge of the Crime Analysis Unit, and his department’s Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Representative. He is involved in a number of community outreach and crime prevention efforts including teaching RAD (Rape Aggression Defense), Radkids (Resisting Aggression Defensively), and RAD for Seniors Self-Defense Programs to the community. Glen manages his departments Social Media, Website, Citizens Police Academy, Workplace Safety/Active Shooter, and Crime Prevention Efforts.

Glen is the current President of both the Massachusetts Association of Crime Analysts (MACA) and of Police Futurists International (PFI). He is also an IACA Certified Law Enforcement Analyst and has been a speaker at a number of training conferences and events in the United States and Canada.

John J. Farmer Jr. is the former attorney general for New Jersey, senior counsel for the 9/11 Commission, was an assistant U.S. Attorney, and worked at Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP. He is the former law school dean, is currently special counsel to the President of Rutgers and on the faculty at the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

John Farmer became dean of Rutgers School of Law–Newark in July 2009. From April 2013 until June 30, 2014 he was on a leave of absence to serve as Senior Vice President and University Counsel. He returned to the faculty as University Professor, effective July 1, 2014. Professor Farmer continues to hold an administrative post as Special Counsel to the President.

Professor Farmer received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer and received first prize in the 1984 Lincoln and the Law Essay Contest. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University, with a major in English.  He began his career as a law clerk to Associate Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He then worked for two years as a litigation associate at Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP before joining the Office of the U.S. Attorney in Newark, where he prosecuted crimes ranging from kidnapping and arms dealing to bank fraud. In 1993 he received the U.S. Attorney General’s Special Achievement Award for Sustained Performance.

Paul Goldenberg is a highly decorated 30-year criminal justice and global security professional named by the leading national security publication as America’s 2020 Most Influential Person in Homeland Security. Through his work at Rutgers University’s Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience and as a member of the United States Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), he has led sensitive projects within DHS at the request of the Secretary and members of Congress, such as the National Cyber Security Task Force, Subcommittee on Foreign Fighters, CVE policy center, Racial and Religious Violence Task Force, Countering Foreign Influence, and Youth Radicalization and Engagement.  Working internationally, he commanded the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) transitional policing mission where he traveled to Kosovo, Ukraine, Sweden, Belgium, France, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, and numerous other European states to evaluate police response to growing extremism and building capacity between police and vulnerable communities. Paul’s government positions included chief of the NJ Attorney General’s Office responsible for Hate Crime and Domestic Terrorism, Executive Director of the nation’s 6th largest social service and juvenile justice system, lead agent of the Prosecutors Office Organized Crime Task Force, five years as a south Florida deep undercover agent where Mr. Goldenberg was named South Florida’s Law Enforcement Officer of the Year -after bringing down a major criminal cartel which resulted in more than over 150 arrests. He began his career in urban policing in New Jersey.  Mr. Goldenberg is also a senior advisor to National PAL, Crime stoppers, County Executives of America, and the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago.

Mark Pfeifle is the National Sheriffs’ Association senior advisor for marketing, strategy, and communications. He was deputy national security advisor for strategic communication and global outreach at the White House from 2007 to 2009. Mark is a leader in crisis strategy, digital media, cybersecurity, and has expertise and deep experience in planning and successfully executing high-impact policies and strategies, including U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Defense Fund, and Fortune 500 companies on major acquisitions, international relations, and cybersecurity challenges. In 2019, Pfeifle spoke on crisis and cyber strategy issues at Baku State University, ADA University, and Baku American Center in Azerbaijan; at the OSCE Academy, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek Humanities University, Kyrgyz State National University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; and at Panteion University, Aristotle University, University of Macedonia and the Hellenic National Defense College in Greece.