Will Parkin
Senior Research Analyst, RTI International;
2024
Will Parkin is a Senior Research Analyst at RTI International in the Justice Practice Area. Currently, he’s Co-Director of the Coordinated Hate Crimes Resource Center funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. He also studies public support for violent extremism and human behavioral responses to targeted acts of violence. Throughout his career, Dr. Parkin has collaborated with national experts on a wide variety of topics including extremist violence, the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, community policing, and the community impacts of misdemeanor prosecutions. Prior to working at RTI International he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics at Seattle 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.
