Donna Milgram, Executive Director, Recruiting Women to Policing: Strategies That Work

Recruiting Women to Policing: Strategies That Work with Donna Milgram, Executive Director

Donna Milgram is Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science, a national organization  dedicated to assisting law enforcement agencies in recruiting, integrating and retaining women police officers.  The woman behind IWITTS's successful work with police departments, the Law Enforcement Environmental Assessment Tools, and Police Chief's Recruiting Women to Policing article, Ms. Milgram has been an instructor at the FBI Academy on women and law enforcement, has presented at four International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conferences, the Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute, the State Police Hiring Summit, and the National Association for Women Law Enforcement Executives. As the director of the New Workplace for Women Project, Ms. Milgram assisted the Albuquerque and Tucson Police Departments in increasing the number of female recruits from 10% to one-third of the Academy and has assisted other Police Departments in achieving similar results in recruitment and retention of women and a "zero tolerance" climate for harassment.