Brenda Bond-Fortier

Brenda J. Bond-Fortier, PhD is Professor of Public Administration in the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. Brenda specializes in organizational change, performance measurement and management, collaborative approaches to organizational and community challenges, and the development, implementation, and evaluation of public policies and practices.

Brenda has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance Strategies for Policing Innovation initiative, and a Research Fellow for the National Police Foundation. She previously served as a Research Associate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Program in Criminal Justice Policy & Management, as Research Advisor for the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, and as Director of Research and Development at the Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department.