Anjali Ranadive is the President of SciLawForensics, Ltd, a forensic science and legal consulting firm in State College, PA. Ms. Ranadive is an Advisory Commissioner on the American Academy of Forensic Science’s Forensic (AAFS) Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC), a public member of the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (FSAB) and has served on the AAFS program committee in various capacities for the last seven years including being the 2009-2010 Criminalistics Section Chair and the 2009 and 2010 program Plenary Session Co-Chair. Through a Sub-Contract to the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), she is currently managing a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded Working Group on the presentation of statistical forensic data in court and is drafting a report on the efficacy of the last 5 years of funding under the Paul Coverdell Grant program under a contract funded by the Library of Congress (LOC). In the past few years she has coordinated, facilitate and lectured at numerous national training conferences on forensic science for attorneys under multiple grants from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA, DOJ) to the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and Law (NCSTL). She recently managed and contributed to two NIJ training projects under NCSTL – Law 101, a training guide for expert witnesses, and DNA for the Defense, a guidebook for defense attorneys. She also co-edited “Ethics in Forensic Science” published by Elsevier Press in 2012. She conducts training of law enforcement, attorneys, judges, forensic scientists and other experts in various aspects of forensic science and law and consults on criminal cases involving complex scientific evidence. Ms. Ranadive previously worked as a contractor to the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division where she served as a subject matter expert on Attorney General Reno’s National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, was the coordinator for NIJ’s five annual Conferences on DNA and Science and the Law and the facilitator of several technical working groups (TWGs) on various forensic issues. Prior to NIJ, Ms. Ranadive worked as a staff DNA analyst at Cellmark Diagnostics where she conducted forensic DNA testing and provided expert testimony across the country. She holds a B.A. degree in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.F.S. degree in Forensic Science from The George Washington University, and a J.D. degree from the American University, Washington College of Law.