Patricia Kickland is a Program Manager with the Hawaii State Fusion Center. Her main job duties are outreach, education, and training on topics related to violent extremism and targeted violence/terrorism prevention. She also supports other fusion center operations. Previously Ms. Kickland worked as an Investigator with the state of Hawaii’s Crime Victim Compensation Commission. Before that, she served as a deputy prosecuting attorney for the City and County of Honolulu for nearly twelve years. Ms. Kickland graduated from law school at the University of Minnesota and earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and classics from Cornell University.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
