Christine M. Cole is a self-employed criminal justice consultant and Senior Advisor at 21CP Solutions and currently serves as the Interim Monitor for the court appointed Consent Decree team in Cleveland, OH. Cole is an expert in police management, accountability, oversight, governance, evidence-based assessments, and community engagement. She previously served as Executive Director and Vice President at the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI), a division of Community Resources for Justice (CRJ), where she led the organization and a division of 50 for eight years.
Before joining CJI, Cole served as Executive Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School. From 2008 to 2014, she co-chaired and facilitated the NIJ-funded Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety, which produced 20 original papers.
Cole is a co-author of the widely cited 2008 study on the Los Angeles Consent Decree and the report Why Was Boston Strong?, which examined the coordinated response to the Boston Marathon bombings. Her public service experience includes serving as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, which advised the governor on criminal justice and homeland security policy.
Earlier in her career, Cole worked in two Massachusetts municipal police departments, serving as a Community Liaison/Policy Advisor and later as Director of Business and Technology. She has presented and taught both nationally and internationally on topics including community corrections, police-community engagement, coordinated crisis response, and the intersection of justice reform and good governance.
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