Julie Anne Friend

Julie Anne Friend is the Director of the Office of Global Safety and Security at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She recently contributed three chapters to NAFSA’s Crisis Management for Education Abroad. Friend has a JD in Law and an MA in English from Michigan State University as well as a BS in Speech Communication from Syracuse University, and is licensed attorney in the state of Michigan.

How Sexual Misconduct Threatens the Security Industry

Real and Reputational Risk

Julie Anne Friend

March 13, 2018

Security professionals are tasked with addressing reputational risk as well as physical risk, but are our own departments and industry doing enough to avoid being a risk to the enterprise as a whole? It’s time to take a good, hard look at your workplace and ask if it is inclusive, supportive and fair.

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How Sexual Misconduct Threatens the Security Industry

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