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As the Deputy Director of the Prevention, Resilience and Readiness Directorate, Ms. Crockett is responsible for development and oversight of the Army’s violence prevention and response portfolio, including science and research on reducing harmful behaviors. She advises Army Senior Leaders on implementation of Army and Department of Defense policies related to integrated prevention, sexual assault, sexual harassment, suicide, and domestic violence, including support for standardizing and elevating the gender advisor workforce charged with carrying out Women, Peace, and Security activities across the Army. Ms. Crockett leads a team of public health researchers, data scientists, military and civilian personnel working to recruit and sustain the Integrated Prevention Advisory Group, the Army’s Integrated Primary Prevention Workforce. In addition, she serves as the Army’s strategic leader for prevention and quality of life human resource programs and initiatives, including a multi-billion-dollar portfolio with major impacts on the recruitment and retention of Soldiers and their Families.

Previously, Ms. Crockett served as Director for Military Personnel and Readiness and Health of the Force at the White House National Security Council. She has held a variety of roles in DOD and other federal departments and agencies, for more than a decade. Ms. Crockett earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Spanish from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master’s in Philosophy (MPhil) in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. She obtained her Master’s in Public Health as a Bloomberg American Health Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.


Career Chronology:

  • Sep 2024-Current: Deputy Director, Prevention, Resilience and Readiness, Army G-9, Pentagon, DC
  • Sep 2021-Sep 2024: Director, Military Personnel and Readiness and Health of the Force, National Security Council, the White House, DC
  • Mar 2021-Sep 2021: Senior Advisor, Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military, Pentagon, DC
  • Mar 2019-Mar 2021: Prevention Lead, Office of the Secretary of Defense Family Advocacy Program, Pentagon, DC
  • Aug 2018-Mar 2019: Policy Advisor, Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC
  • Sep 2017-Aug 2018: Program Specialist (detail assignment), Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, DC
  • Oct 2016-Jan 2017: Policy Advisor (detail assignment), Office of the Vice President, the White House, DC
  • Feb 2016-Sep 2014: Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Aging, Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC
  • Sep 2012-Sep 2014: Presidential Management Fellow/Family Violence Program Specialist, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC

College:

  • MPH, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2023
  • MPhil, Political Theory, University of Oxford, 2012
  • B.A., Political Science and Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010

Awards and Honors:

  • National Security Advisor’s Game Ball Award (2023)
  • Mighty 25 Military Community Changemaker (2023)
  • Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow (2020)
  • Editor’s Choice Award, British Journal of Social Work (2018)

Professional memberships and associations:

  • Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Violence Prevention Steering Committee Member, Bloomberg American Health Initiative

Major Publications:

  • McCleary-Sills, J., Crockett, C., & Cooper, B. “Invisible Survivors: Causes & Consequences of Violence Against Older Women and Promising Solutions.” (Book chapter). Global Perspectives on Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse. Shonali Choudhury, Ed. Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Ed. Mellissa Withers, Ed. October 2017.
  • Crockett, C., Cooper, B., & Brandl, B. “Intersectional Stigma and Late-Life Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence: How Social Workers Can Bolster Safety and Healing for Older Survivors.” British Journal of Social Work. August 2018.