Dr. Beth LaManna, '86, Ph.D. '93

Dr. Beth A. LaManna, M.Ed. '86, Ph.D. '93

Dr. Beth A. LaManna is the new campus security director at Queens College. She is the first woman ever to serve as campus security director at a senior college of the City University of New York.

LaManna joins Queens College after 22 years of meritorious service as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She previously provided clinical counseling and school psychological services in the Detroit public schools, in addition to maintaining a private clinical practice in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As an adjunct professor at Wayne State University, LaManna taught graduate psychology courses. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

Throughout her career with the FBI, LaManna was assigned to the Criminal Division in the New York Field Office and conducted investigations involving organized crime and racketeering, complex financial fraud, money laundering, the 9/11 attacks, and civil rights violations."'"'

LaManna held the position of crisis negotiation coordinator for the New York Office FBI's crisis negotiation program, in which she participated for over 11 years. Additionally, as coordinator for the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, she served as the liaison between local and state law enforcement agencies requesting assistance from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. She coordinated and orchestrated training focused on active school shooters, threat assessment mitigation and management, and violence in the workplace. In this capacity, LaManna had extensive opportunities to train and liaise with local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities, in particular the New York City Police Department.