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Kristina Bryant, MBA, began her work for the NCSC as a Principal Court Management Consultant after 23 years’ experience in community corrections as a Juvenile Court Probation Officer, Criminal Justice Planner, and Assistant Director/Interim Director of adult pretrial and probation services agency. She has worked extensively with the judiciary, elected officials, and policymakers to improve justice policies and practices, and to expand court diversion and intervention efforts. Ms. Bryant is skilled in court administration, including training and process analysis and has broad experience in drug policy issues. Over the past year, Ms. Bryant, has served as the Executive Director of two multi-state Regional Judicial Opioid Initiatives. Both initiatives focus on the judiciary’s active role in reducing overdose fatalities while capitalizing on the regional multi-state approach. Ms. Bryant has a long history of leadership at the state level in statewide organizations by serving on the Executive Committee for multiple terms and co-leading numerous committees focused on probation supervision and pretrial services. In addition, Ms. Bryant co-chaired the Legislative Committee and testified before state legislature on criminal justice matters. Lastly, Ms. Bryant has extensive experience in education and learning styles, teaching at the university level for seven years.

Sally Kreamer has worked in corrections for over 33 years and is the Deputy Director for Community Based Corrections for the Iowa Department Corrections. Prior to that she was the Director of Community Based Corrections for the Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections Services in Des Moines, Iowa. She has been involved in the implementation of evidence-based practices since the early 1990’s having been involved in implementation statewide of cognitive based programs, gender specific programming, trauma informed programming, and the use of validated actuarial assessment tools in both community-based corrections and institutions. She has worked with parole boards, judges, colleges and universities, faith-based community members and other community providers on implementation of research informed practices to include hiring and retaining effective staff. Sally Kreamer has published several articles and manuals in the field of probation and parole specifically dealing with high-risk employee screening, program and assessment fidelity and outcome measures. She has served on many boards including the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Iowa Correctional Association, and the Criminal Justice Advisory Board. She obtained her Bachelors of Science from Iowa State University and her Masters of Science from the University of Cincinnati.