Homeland Security Investigations, Kansas City hosts 'First Women in Leadership Conference'

The first Women in Leadership conference was held by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City on March 30. Five successful women from local, state, and federal government participated in a panel discussion during the event, which also featured an instructive question and answer session.
The following eminent speakers were graciously invited to speak at HSI:
Beginning on April 25, 2022, Teresa Moore will represent the United States in the Western District of Missouri. Previous to that, Teresa was the U.S. attorney when Merrick Garland, the attorney general, appointed her on December 26, 2021. Prior to that, she had been serving as interim U.S. attorney since March 1, 2021, as per the Vacancies Reform Act.
Jean Peters Baker was chosen to fill the office of prosecutor in November 2012 after being appointed in May 2011. She is just the second woman chosen to serve as the prosecutor in Jackson County. Baker was employed as a young assistant prosecutor by Sen. Claire McCaskill. Since then, Baker has worked in almost all unit offices.
In December 2022, Jackson County 116th Circuit Court Judge Jen Phillips administered the oath of office to Stacey Graves. Graves started her employment with the agency in 1997 as a civilian records clerk, serving there for 25 years. During the KCPD's pandemic response, Graves supervised the HR section and oversaw the Shoal Creek Patrol Division as a major.
Acting Deputy Special Agent in Charge for HSI in Kansas City is Stella Owens at the moment. She oversees and supervises HSI employees as well as the organization's administrative and investigative tasks in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. In 2020, Owens received a promotion to Assistant Special Agent in Charge. She oversaw the office's investigative portfolios for public safety, international trade, and national security during her time there as well as the Border Enforcement Security Team.
At North Kansas City Schools, Shannon Shelton holds the position of Assistant Director for Work-Based Learning. Her principal responsibility is to create district-level support mechanisms for retaining corporate and community pathway partners while highlighting the priceless potential that students bring to organisations through work-based learning opportunities.

The leadership panel spent the morning delivering motivational speeches to a broad group of business people. The most important lessons from these women in leadership were to believe in yourself, accept responsibility for your mistakes, learn from them, transform setbacks into opportunities, acknowledge the contributions of your coworkers, and ultimately, choose sensible friends and actions.

The collaboration of law enforcement and other agencies is essential to the accomplishment of our objective, and professional women who spoke at this occasion represent them, said Cho. "With the leadership they bring to the table, we are obviously a lot stronger team."