Braden Schrag is a Las Vegas-based violence-prevention practitioner, retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant, and founder and CEO of Polymath Solutions. With more than 27 years of public service—including 22 years in law enforcement—he works at the intersection of terrorism prevention, targeted violence prevention, hate-motivated violence prevention, behavioral health, and community safety.
Schrag’s prevention work extends across local, national, and international settings. As founder and CEO of Polymath Solutions, he provides training, curriculum development, strategic advisory services, and technical assistance to government agencies, public-safety organizations, health and behavioral-health systems, nonprofits, academic institutions, and international partners. His work has supported initiatives involving the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State; the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism; Strong Cities Network; Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law.
He has helped develop and deliver multi-actor prevention frameworks that bring together law enforcement, local government, educators, behavioral-health professionals, civil-society organizations, and community leaders to address hate, polarization, extremism, and violence before escalation. His international work includes training and technical assistance in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa; prevention programming in Kenya and North Macedonia; behavioral-insights training through the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism; and repatriation and reintegration support in Kazakhstan for former ISIS-affiliated individuals and families.
At LVMPD, Schrag co-created the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center’s Fusion Liaison Officer program and the department’s Office of Community Engagement. These initiatives strengthened prevention-focused information sharing, community trust, social cohesion, and cross-sector coordination. The Fusion Liaison Officer program expanded from one organization to more than 60 public-sector and civil-society partners.
His approach integrates community policing, behavioral insights, social psychology, trauma-informed practice, and public-health-informed prevention. Schrag has served as a U.S. Department of State speaker on community policing and preventing/countering violent extremism; an adjunct instructor for the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security; and a contributor to national and international prevention initiatives. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Xavier University and serves as Chair of Nevada’s Commission on Behavioral Health.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
