Resila Onyango Kenya 2016 Grantee US - Canada Program PhD in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice - The City University of New York, US
Resila Onyango, PhD is a Criminal Intelligence Officer at the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), and a Senior Superintendent of Police in the Kenya Police Service, with 18 years of policing career. She obtained her PhD, and MPhil. in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice-The City University of New York, USA; Master of Science in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, USA; and Bachelor of Education (Arts)from Moi University, Kenya.
An expert in Peace, Conflict and Security, she is a Military Observer trained at the Finnish Defence Forces International Centre in Finland; a Certified Instructor for both “Gender Awareness” trained by the UN Peace Operations Training Institute, USA, and the “Integrated Mission Planning Course” designed for the Military, Police and Civilian components under the Eastern Africa Standby Force within the African Union. She is a trained Sex Crimes Investigator by the International Law Enforcement Academy Gaborone, Botswana. As an adjunct faculty, she taught Criminal Justice at both John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA and the United States International University-Africa, for two years.
Resila is a recipient of various international awards, including the;
PEO International Peace Scholarship and the Margaret McNamara Education Grant: 2016
The Graduate Center-CUNY Doctoral Fellowship: 2013-2018
Dr. James Fyfe Fellow: 2016
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program: 2009-2010
Her research focuses on comparative criminology and criminal justice, gender issues in policing, crimes against children, and terrorism, in African countries specifically in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Namibia, Tanzania, and South Africa.
