Joseph Kolb

Joseph Kolb lives in Albuqerque, NM. He serves as the Executive Director for the Southwest Gang Information Center; as an instructor in the Criminal Justice Department at Western New Mexico University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Border Security, Crime and Minorities, Prison Gangs, Transnational Criminal Organizations; and a Master Instructor for the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy. His work has also taken him to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and San Salvador, El Salvador. He has been published with FoxNews.com, the New York Times, Journal of Counter Terrorism and Homeland Security, and Reuters News Service.

"I immerse myself directly in the topics I teach and research," says Kolb. "You can't understand the plight of others without seeing firsthand what their experiences are."