Episode: 00156 Released on April 24, 2023


Description: Sassy? Spicy? Out of line? When our guest was told to not step on toes, she brought out her highest heels. Kat Howard brings an exciting, dynamic, hold-no-punches interview with Jason in this week’s empowering episode. Kat discusses her undercover work for a human trafficking investigation in her early 20s, her interest-turn-expertise in OSINT, and how to think outside the box while in the box of law enforcement culture. Kat gives her thoughts on analysts developing their programming skills and discusses a new project she’s working on with USC Upstate to capitalize on the power of technology. Kat is currently a criminal intelligence analyst at DataWalk. 


CHALLENGE: There are Easter eggs in one of the tables of the Excel chapter that Jason wrote for the IACA textbook. First-person to email us at [email protected] about what the Easter eggs are will receive a $20 gift card from us. Happy hunting!


Name Drops: Charlie Giberti (00:01:08, 00:43:19), Raymond Bechard (00:04:30), Natalie Martinez (00:37:14), Rachel Kleindorfer (00:41:47), Scott Payne (01:08:26)


Public Service Announcements:
MGIA Conference (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-brianne-fenton-the-outwork-them-analyst/
https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-2023-mgia-conference-agenda-deep-dive-with-lt-kyle-dombrowski/)
Jennifer Loper (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-jennifer-loper-the-junk-drawer/


Related Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Turnpike-Story-Trafficking-America-ebook/dp/B0050ZHRFQ
https://www.halifax.ca/fire-police/police
https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/police/
Traffic Jam Campaign - Stop Human Trafficking and Slavery


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Vendor(s) Mentioned: DataWalk, 


Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katalin-howard/ 


Transcript: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bb6sf6/KatalinHowardTranscript.pdf 


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00:00:17 – Introducing Katalin
00:07:11 – Results from going Undercover - Sex Trafficking
00:20:29 – Starting at Halifax Regional Police
00:26:20 – Back to Cincinnati
00:30:24 – Break: MGIA Conference & Jennifer Loper
00:32:40 – Starting at Cincinnati PD
00:43:19 – DataWalk
00:49:25 – Programming for Analysts
00:52:03 – New OSINT Workshop
01:02:30 – Personal Interest: Visualizations for Dive Bars
01:09:23 – Words to the World