Christine M. Cole

Christine Cole Christine Cole is the Executive Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. She joined the Program in April 2007. Across 20 years she has accumulated professional experiences in policing, institutional and community-based corrections, victim advocacy, community organizing and working as part of a prosecution team. She has mid-level and executive level management and supervision experience and worked as a change agent across sectors. She has extensive experience as a collaborator and facilitator with practitioners, community members and academicians.

Christine most recently worked at the Springfield (MA) Police Department as the Director of Business and Technology. In that capacity she instituted technological and business solutions department wide.

Christine served as the Chief of Staff at the Executive Office of Public Safety, which serves as the policy shop for law enforcement, corrections and homeland security in Massachusetts. It has policy, budget and managerial oversight of 17 state agencies and 24 boards and commissions.

She was the Director of Planning and Development at the Crime and Justice Institute, a 125 year old nonprofit agency in Boston that specializes in advancing criminal justice policy. At CJI she developed programs, policies, performance measures and guiding principles for community-based corrections programs.

Christine was a chief architect of the community policing strategy and implementation in the Lowell (MA) Police Department. She worked there as policy advisor and community liaison. Prior to that she worked for the Middlesex District Attorney in Massachusetts as a victim witness advocate, providing crisis intervention services and supportive counseling for victims of crime.

Christine has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a Master in Community and Social Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in Special Education and Human Development.

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