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Dr. Kimberly Collica-Cox is the Chief Operating Officer of Collica-Cox Correctional Consulting, LLC. She is a certified auditor with the American Correctional Association and with the Department of Justice as a Prison Rape Elimination Auditor. She certified (PREA accreditation) the first jail in NYS. Collica-Cox Correctional Consulting, LLC, serves as a HSI training Center offering CPR, First Aid and AED courses. She has over two decades of experience working in corrections and is the Director/Instructor for the award winning Parenting, Prison & Pups Program.

Dr. Collica-Cox is also a Professor in the Criminal Justice and Security Department at PACE University. Prior to teaching, she worked for a women's correctional facility in New York State coordinating an HIV prison-based peer education program and for a large New York county jail supervising their jail-based transitional services unit, in addition to serving on their disciplinary committee. She has extensive experience working with correctional populations and has twenty years of teaching and training experience in this area. In addition to serving as the Director of Parenting, Prison & Pups, she leads a puppy foster program at the Westchester Jail - Puppies on The Block, and serves as an Inside-Out instructor. She is also the Vice Chairperson for the Westchester County Corrections Advisory Board.

Dr. Collica-Cox serves as a TOT (Train the Trainers) for the NYS Department of Health/AIDS Institute and has been responsible for training professionals in HIV- related issues in the NYS Metropolitan area. She is experienced in presenting/teaching complex issues, managing/supervising large departments, and working with diverse populations. She is skilled in implementing and developing educational programs/curriculum for groups of all sizes and composition, both online and onsite. Dr. Collica has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, a M.Phil from the Graduate School and University Center, a MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College, and a BA in Criminology from John Jay College. Her research has focused on female inmates, rehabilitation, reintegration, women correctional executives, and issues surrounding HIV prison-based peer programming. She is well published in this area with over 35 journal articles and 2 books. Please visit her website for more detail on her publications.