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Marcia Morgan, Ph.D.
Criminal Justice Consultant

e-mail: marcia@migima.com

Marcia Morgan has worked in the criminal justice field over 30 years, starting her career as a deputy sheriff, a correctional officer, researcher and lobbyist and presently as a national consultant with expertise in training, curriculum development, research, gender issues, and criminal justice. Her primary focus is around sexual assault and gender issues in the justice system.

Marcia and a colleague were the original developers of the anatomical dolls, now used worldwide in interviews with children in sex crime investigations. She authored How to Interview Sexual Abuse Victims, Sage Publications (1995), now in three languages. In the 1970’s, she headed up one of the first all-female rape investigation programs in the country in Eugene, Oregon.

Marcia has worked with many agencies on special projects, cases, research and training. Sample agencies include the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Housing and Urban Development, and many local, state and federal agencies. With the US Army at the Pentagon, she researched and helped develop a sex offender protocol for the military. She has conducted qualitative and quantitative research for adult and juvenile justice agencies. She conducts needs assessments, feasibility studies, research and evaluation, social marketing campaigns, writing, project development, facilitation and technical assistance.

Marcia has written 15 national curricula on various crime issues. For the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, D.C. she wrote the following:


For the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention she authored Beyond Gender Barriers: Programming Specifically for Girls (2000) and Gender-Responsive Programming for Girls – Track II (2005). For the National Institute of Justice, she wrote two training curricula, Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (2000) on youth gun violence and Project Safe Neighborhoods (2002). For the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), she and a colleague wrote the curriculum, Partnerships for Safe Schools (2001).

Additionally, she worked on the curriculum Beyond Trauma with Dr. Stephanie Covington for Hazelden on trauma recovery and substance abuse for young women, a gender-responsive training program for jails in Chicago, a facilitator's curriculum for the Girls Circle Association and SafeTOUCH on abuse prevention.

As a consultant with the National Institute of Corrections, she has done research at men’s and women’s prisons around the US examining prison culture issues, staff sexual misconduct and prison rape. She has worked with the Moss Group in Washington, D.C. since 2004 on the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

For more information on Marcia's curricula, contact the following:





Andrew Jordan
Criminal Justice Consultant

e-mail: andy@migima.com

Andrew Jordan has been in law enforcement for over 30 years and is the former Chief of Police in Bend, Oregon. He began his career in Fresno, California, became a Deputy Sheriff with Deschutes County, Oregon, then with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, and finally with the Bend Police Department where he worked his way up the ranks from patrol officer, patrol sergeant, detective sergeant, lieutenant, captain and then Chief of Police in 1999. Andrew manages a staff of 87 sworn and 25 support staff. In 2003, Bend Police received state accreditation - one of a handful of departments in the state to receive this status. In 2006, Chief Jordan began a “Command College” that he teaches monthly to 60 employees to build capacity in leadership.

Andrew's expertise is in criminal justice strategic planning, leadership in law enforcement, project development and technical assistance. He co-authored the article "The Prison Rape Elimination Act: What Police Chiefs Need to Know," Police Chief Magazine, April 2006.

Andrew has a strong commitment to being active in his community including Rotary and sitting on several boards of directors such as the KIDS Center (child advocacy center) and HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) as well as being active on various law enforcement committees. Andrew holds a Bachelor’s Degree in criminal justice from California State at Fresno, CA and graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia in 1995.

Other Experts

Migima recruits experts in the field to work on specific projects to match the needs of the client. Past team consultants have included:

Barbara Bloom, Ph.D. – Author, Researcher, Sonoma State University, California
Lori Kenney, MBA – Mediator/Facilitator, Oregon
Paula Schaefer – Gender/Juvenile Justice, Minnesota
Rebecca Severeide, Ph.D. – Early Childhood Specialist, Oregon
Barbara Owen, Ph.D. – Author, Professor, Fresno State University, California
Brenda Smith, JD – Law Professor, American University, Washington D.C.
Alyssa Benedict, MPH – Gender Specialist, Connecticut
Jeff Shorba, JD – Court Administrator, Minnesota
M. Kay Harris, Ph.D. – Author, Professor, Temple University, Pennsylvania
Linda McFarlane – Stop Prisoner Rape, California
Robert Dumond – Corrections Clinical Psychologist, Massachusetts
Marianne McNabb, MA – Corrections Administration Consultant, Washington
Pat Van Voorhis, Ph.D. – Professor, Researcher, Author, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Patricia Hardiman, Ph.D. – Researcher, New York
Elaine DeCostanzo – Assistant to Governor, Data Specialist, Trainer, Georgia

Additionally, Migima’s support staff includes clerical/data entry personnel and a graphic artist for cover designs, marketing pieces and other materials.

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