Patricia Kickland
Program Manager, Hawaii State Fusion Center
2023, 2024
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.
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
