The Massachusetts Chapter of the IAAI presents its January Seminar on Geographical Profiling ( [
www.maiaai.com] )
The seminar is January 17, 2007 at the Florian Hall in Dorchester MA. Please click on the above link for additional information.
ATF Special Agent, Rhonda Trahern, will present her program on profiling as it pertains to a number of crimes, including serial arsonists. She is one of only 10 geographic profilers in the world and the only one employed by a U.S. government agency. Rhonda is currently assigned to the Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico.
Special Agent Trahern is also trained in the behavioral analysis of violent crime. She is a Certified Explosives Specialist.
She is an active member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and the International Association of Arson Investigators.
Prior to her current assignment she was the Branch Chief of ATF’s Canine Operations Branch for their explosives and accelerant detection canine programs. She holds two B.A. degrees and a M.S. degree from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.
-Adam Holloway