In 2017, Anna Muckenfuss earned her Bachelor of Arts in Public History and German from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana with the intent to pursue a career in Museum Education.
While an undergraduate, Muckenfuss spent a summer as an intern at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC where she fell in love with the city and its rich landscape of museums. Upon graduation from Ball State, Muckenfuss pursued her Master of Arts Degree in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and graduated in May 2020.
Since October 2018, Anna has worked at the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC – first in Visitor Services and then in Museum Education. Muckenfuss currently serves as the Museum’s Director of Programs, creating and facilitating public programming for the organization’s diverse audience. Muckenfuss’s programming with the museum greatly focuses on the American judicial system, the history of American law enforcement, and advances in forensic science. This is Muckenfuss’s second year as Capstone Director for the Forensic Science Academy.
Rodney Parks, Academic Director
Rodney Parks, Academic Director Rodney Parks, retired Assistant Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C.
Parks received his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Management from the Johns Hopkins University. He is also a graduate of the 201st session of the F.B.I. National Academy. He served thirty-one years with the Metropolitan Police Department Washington, D.C. While with the MPD he rose to the rank of Assistant Chief and served in various assignments from patrol, Homicide and criminal investigations Commander, asst. director of continuing studies at the Police Academy, Internal Affairs, Disciplinary Review, Recruiting and Human Resources units. Parks began his experience as an instructor of law enforcement topics while with the MPD and has continued instructing law enforcement seminars locally and in other parts of the U.S. He is an adjunct professor with the University of the District of Columbia Community College. He has instructed internationally in Trinidad and Tobago and lectured to various international audiences. He has coached youth sports for the Catholic Youth Organization. He currently is the Head of Safety and Security at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. This will be his tenth year as Academic Director of the Forensic Science Academy
