Director of Outreach – Anjali Swienton

Phone:  (301) 528-5050
Fax:      (301) 540-1075
Email:   aswienton@law.stetson.edu

Ms. Swienton received her M.F.S. from the George Washington University in 1992 and her J.D. (Cum Laude) from The American University, Washington College of Law in 2002. She is President and CEO of SciLawForensics, Ltd. which provides litigation support and facilitation for the development of specialized training and education tools and publications to the criminal justice and law enforcement communities.

Ms Swienton has served as the Project Manager for the NFSTC/NIJ Resource Guide for Users of Science and Technology. She has also served and continues to serve as a Senior Forensic Analyst for Lockheed Martin, Inc. (formerly ACS Defense, Inc.) In that capacity she has provided technical support in the Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division of the Office of Science and Technology, at the National Institute of Justice for the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, various Technical Working Groups , such as the Technical Working Group on Training and Education in Forensic Science (TWGED), the Technical Working Group on Digital Evidence in the Courtroom (TWGDEC), the Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation (TWGCSI), the Technical Working Group on Eyewitness Evidence (TWGEYEE) and the Technical Working Group on Fire and Arson Scene Evidence (TWGFASE).

Prior to her legal career she worked as a forensic DNA analyst and laboratory assistant at Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, MD. She has made numerous professional presentations. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists as well as an Advisory Commissioner of the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission and a member of the NIJ Juror Comprehension of DNA Evidence Research Study Advisory Committee.