Mike Teeter is an educator and career police officer who serves as a police practices expert providing monitoring, training, consulting, and expert witness services related to leadership, use of force, policy, significant incidents, accountability, human resources and training. Current and past clients include the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Washington State's Criminal Justice Training Commission, King County (in Washington State), and counsel representing cities and individuals. He uses the extensive experience garnered leading force investigations, training, policy development, human resources and force review boards for the Seattle Police Department during Seattle’s reform journey, which he has further refined through his continuing work and study, to help other organizations improve and reform their processes, practices, training, and leadership development. The overall goal of Mike’s work is to improve public trust and confidence in law enforcement through meaningful reform, timely and relevant training, solid supervision and effective accountability systems and measures including thorough, objective, and transparent investigations of police actions. In addition to building community trust and confidence, this work is intended to improve professionalism, wellness, and officer safety and ultimately, to reduce force related injuries and deaths recognizing the sanctity of human life.

Mike rose through the ranks of the Seattle Police Department where he served for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2022 as a Captain. He has a broad range of experience which has prepared him to serve others as a consultant and expert, and to teach current and aspiring criminal justice professionals. In addition to the assignments noted above, Mike commanded the Seattle Police West Precinct, leading a team of 200 sworn officers providing front line police services to a daytime population exceeding 260,000 in the heart of Seattle's downtown and tourist core. Other roles he’s held in his police career include impaired driving enforcement, drug recognition expert (DRE), field training officer (FTO), internal investigations sergeant and lieutenant, patrol sergeant and shift commander, and recruiting/background investigation lieutenant.

Mike is now serving as the Graduate Program Director for Salve Regina University's online criminal justice and cybersecurity program. He teaches graduate level criminal justice courses, advises students and is responsible for the overall content and quality of this program. His teaching at Salve is focused on leadership and culture.

In addition to his work at Salve Regina, Mike’s current consulting work includes serving as an expert regarding police use of force incidents and internal investigations, serving on the Springfield Compliance Evaluator team, and policy development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mike earned two Bachelor of Science Degrees from the University of Washington and a Master of Science Degree from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Tracie L. Keesee is a nationally recognized leader in policing culture, community safety, bias/equity, and wellness. A retired 25-year veteran of the Denver Police Department and former Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department, she has dedicated her career to transforming the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve. She is the Co-Founder of the Center for Policing Equity, where she advanced data-driven strategies to reduce harm and promote equitable outcomes in public safety.

Dr. Keesee has served as Project Director for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice and was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to its Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice and Equity in Law Enforcement. In addition to her policy and advocacy work, she is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, teaching leadership, social justice, statistics, and public safety.

A certified mindfulness and yoga instructor, Dr. Keesee is also the founder of Respect the Om, a wellness initiative creating healing spaces for those in high-stress professions. Her work bridges research, practice, and human connection—helping shape public safety systems that are just, inclusive, and rooted in community trust.

Dr. Keesee earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Metropolitan State College of Denver, two Master of Arts Degrees, one from the University of Denver and one from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Denver.  She is a graduate of the 203rd session of the FBI National Academy.

After receiving her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School, Kathryn litigated employment discrimination for over twenty years, primarily with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles and Seattle. She then pivoted to bring her investigation and discovery skills to support best practices in handling police complaints and to provide civilian oversight, as director of the Seattle Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability (SPD's internal investigations unit). Kathryn instituted procedures to enhance accountability, ensuring that complaints were addressed in an objective, thorough, and timely manner. She also provided transparency on complaint outcomes and trends. Investigations under her direction during the U.S. Department of Justice review of SPD were found to be “thorough, well-organized, well-documented, and thoughtful.”  Kathryn co-authored the Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual, 2nd ed. (Routledge: 2020).

Since leaving SPD in 2013, Kathryn has handled command level misconduct investigations and has served as an expert witness on investigation best practices and police legitimacy. She also has assessed internal affairs policies and procedures, along with other policing functions, in local and federal law enforcement organizations. Her reviews are guided by a commitment to accountability, transparency, and internal and external procedural justice, with a goal to improve police legitimacy and community trust.

Kathryn currently monitors the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in King County and is completing a four-year contract to monitor the implementation of recommendations for the Port of Seattle Police Department, following an assessment of the department's use of force, mutual aid, recruitment and hiring, training, and complaint processing.

Kathryn is considered a thought leader on civilian oversight and has trained and consulted on alternative oversight models in Davis, Pasadena, and Long Beach, California, along with other jurisdictions. When consulting on civilian oversight, Kathryn encourages broad stakeholder involvement, believes there is no one best approach, and advocates that any model adopted be regularly assessed. Kathryn served as a two-term president of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE).

Kathryn was certified as a trainer in the Tools for Tolerance Law Enforcement program on racial profiling/bias free policing and assisted in developing and beta testing an implicit bias curriculum for prosecutors, using Fair and Impartial Policing. She also participated in the early development of, and is trained in, Procedural Justice for Law Enforcement.

Kathryn earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Davis, and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School.