Profiles in the Justice Professions: In conversation with Tiffany Roy, MSFS, JD, Forensic DNA expert
Foster an understanding of what a career in criminal justice looks like. Author and educator Frank Schmalleger hosts Profiles in the Justice Professions, a special student-facing interview series.
Dr. Frank Schmalleger, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of North Carolina
Tiffany Roy, MSFS, JD, Forensic DNA Expert, Owner/President, ForensicAid
Foster an understanding of what a career in criminal justice looks like. Author and educator Frank Schmalleger hosts Profiles in the Justice Professions, a special student-facing interview series.
In this session, Dr. Schmalleger sits down with Tiffany Roy, MSFS, JD - a Forensic DNA expert.
About the speakers
Dr. Frank Schmalleger, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of North Carolina
Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University, having earned both a master’s and a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University with a special emphasis in criminology. He is the author of numerous market leading texts. The most recently published is Criminal Justice Today, 17th Edition. You can learn more about Frank Schmalleger at his website: www.schmalleger.com.
Tiffany Roy, MSFS, JD, Forensic DNA Expert, Owner/President, ForensicAid
Tiffany Roy, MSFS, JD, is a forensic DNA expert with over 13 years of forensic biology experience in both public and private laboratories in the United States. She has processed thousands of DNA samples and thousands of cases over the course of her career. She has provided expert witness testimony in more than 100 cases in state, federal and international courts. She instructs undergraduates at Palm Beach Atlantic University, University of Maryland Global Campus and Southern New Hampshire University. She currently acts as a consultant for attorneys and the media in the area of forensic biology through her firm, ForensicAid, LLC. Roy holds degrees from Syracuse University, Massachusetts School of Law and University of Florida in the areas of biology, law and forensic science. Her teaching, legal writing and testimonial experience help her to take complex scientific concepts and make them easily understandable for the nonscientist. Roy assisted Dr. Saferstein in completing Forensic Science: From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab, 4th Edition (Pearson 2019) and has authored the text The Complete Guide to the American Board of Criminalistics Molecular Biology Examination (CRC Press 2020) to assist working forensic scientists achieve the goal of certification. Roy is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists and the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners. She is a certified Diplomate in the area of Forensic Biology by the American Board of Criminalistics. Aside from her teaching, writing and consulting, Roy also assists with international capacity building initiatives, providing subject matter expertise for trainings for criminal justice stakeholders in the Middle East and Africa.