Cynthia M. Deitle retired as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2017 after serving for 22 years specializing in the fields of police brutality, hate crimes, public corruption, and community outreach. She currently works for the Matthew Shepard Foundation as their Programs and Operations Director. After entering on duty with the FBI, she spent ten years in the New York Division. While there, Deitle served as the lead investigative agent for many high-profile police brutality investigations involving the New York City Police Department, including the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, and the sexual assault of Abner Louima. Deitle also investigated a significant number of sensitive hate crimes cases including the death of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, NY. In 2007, Deitle assumed a Supervisory Special Agent position in the Civil Rights Unit in FBI Headquarters. She was promoted to Civil Rights Unit Chief in 2008, where she was responsible for managing the FBI’s Hate Crimes, Color of Law, Human Trafficking and Abortion Extremism Programs on a national level. Serving as Unit Chief, she devoted considerable resources to address the FBI’s Cold Case Initiative which seeks to reexamine unsolved racially-motivated homicides from the Civil Rights Era. In 2011, Deitle transferred to the Boston Division to supervise the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Programs in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. When she joined the Knoxville Division in 2014, she focused her efforts on expanding the Human Trafficking Program and strengthening the FBI’s relationship with minority groups and the academic community in Eastern Tennessee. Deitle earned her Juris Doctor degree from New England Law Boston, a Master of Laws degree in Criminal Law from New York University School of Law, and a Master of Laws degree in Constitutional Law from the George Washington University National Law Center. She has also published several law review articles dealing with the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment, and police officers’ use of excessive force. Ms. Deitle is licensed to practice law in Florida, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and Tennessee. She was featured in a February 2011 episode of 60 Minutes dealing with an unsolved Civil Rights Cold Case investigation in Mississippi. She also appeared in the first season of Investigation Discovery’s series The Injustice Files in 2011, which profiled three unsolved or inadequately addressed Civil Rights Era Cold Cases. Deitle is a adjunct professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN and frequently lectures on all aspects of the FBI’s Civil Rights and Public Corruption Programs to audiences including law enforcement officials, non-governmental organizations, academia, and community service groups. She has granted interviews to the Washington Post, New York Times, The Boston Globe, National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation.