NAFSE Staff
The National Alliance For Safer Education (NAFSE) applied the knowledge we gained from working with The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to establish our first alliance of educators, law enforcement and military special operations to develop a program that would work in our school by increasing security and accountability without interfering with the limited time allotted for education. All of our staff are NIMS certified and have over 50 years in educational experience to help insure a safer and more secure educational environment.
Ed Lowdenback
ed.lowdenback@nafse.com
Dr Ed Lowdenback is currently a National Trainer and Chief Reader for ETS at Princeton, NJ; State Trainer for The Kentucky Principals Internship Program; Visiting Professor at EKU teaching EAD 869, Action Research; and EAD 834, Human Resource and Development. He has been an educator for forty-three years with experience as a county superintendent, principal of large and small high schools, middle schools and elementary schools in the public and private sector. Dr Lowdenback has attended six universities in four states, while receiving an AB from Lincoln Memorial University; MED from Xavier University; EDD from Indiana University.
Is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University's College of Law Enforcement with a BS in Police Administration. He is currently a certified law enforcement training instructor for the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training Center. Before this Mike was appointed Executive Staff Advisor/Certified Assessor for the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, Community Preparedness Program. During this two and one-half year initiative, he managed a team of certified assessors responsible for community vulnerability assessments throughout the state of Kentucky. Those teams assessed all public safety issues within each community and over 2,000 individual sites, nearly half of which were schools. He also worked as a private investigator for the Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust from 1998 until 2005. Mike began his law enforcement career in 1974 with the Lexington (Kentucky) Police Department, where he served for 23 years. He served the last 15 years there as a supervisor in the Criminal Investigation Section, before retiring in 1997.
Thomas H. Wynn
tom.wynn@nafse.com
Tom Wynn is a 13-year United States Marine Corps (USMC) veteran. He was one of the original members of the USMC's Combat Assault Team, training for the In extremist Hostage Rescue (IHR) mission within the Corp. He is considered an expert in the security arena both in the United States and internationally. Upon leaving the USMC he did private consulting work for the United States Government as well as foreign governments. Most recently he assisted the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training in fulfilling a Kentucky Homeland Security grant. During this last assignment Tom conducted more than 1,000 vulnerability assessments of Kentucky schools.