Carolyn Meissner joined the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2021. She currently serves as a Senior Project Coordinator for IACP's Innovations in Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Diversification, the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act National Training and Technical Assistance project, and multiple anti-human trafficking projects, including Building Agency Capacity: A Toolkit for Human Trafficking Investigations and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program for Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Forces. She was previously on the Mental Health/Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities team where she worked to enhance law enforcement response to individuals with mental health crises and to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who may wander due to their condition.
Prior to joining the IACP, Ms. Meissner interned at the Arlington County (VA) Police Department in the Homicide/Robbery Unit and the Madison (WI) Police Department in the Burglary Crime Unit. She also was a Research Assistant in the Child Emotion Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Weisman Center where she worked on research related to children who have been abused and their response to emotional stimuli.
Ms. Meissner has a master’s degree in forensic and legal psychology from Marymount University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a certificate in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.