Derika B. Sutton
Hate Crime Program Owner, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice
2023, 2024, 2025
Derika B. Sutton is the Program Owner for the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program Hate Crime Statistics Data Collection. Ms. Sutton facilitated the first ever Hate Crime Symposium, August 2023 and the first annual Hate Crime Awareness Week, October 2024, both held at CJIS. Ms. Sutton was a presenter at the 2023 and 2024 Eradicate Hate Global Summit. She collaborates with additional government agencies and advocacy/community groups regarding increased NIBRS reporting and reducing underreporting for hate crime, while building strong relationships between government and community.
The Eradicating Hate Global Summit was both eye-opening and empowering. To have so many experts in the field of countering hate, all there sharing their expertise, working towards practical and real world solutions, was incredibly unique. It is this focus on meaningful conversations, answers, and solutions that makes Eradicating Hate so incredibly important. The spread of hate is a wicked problem, and the way Eradicating Hate approaches it is how we are going to solve it.
