The client met her consultants the way practically everyone has had to do in 2020. On a computer screen.
One by one, faces popped up on Microsoft Teams screens on a Tuesday morning in December, and the client, Salina Greene, gushed: “I’m seeing my consultants for the first time. This is exciting!”
Greene opened a meeting that had a two-fold purpose.
First was hearing what these “consultants,” a trio of University of Nebraska at Omaha MBA students, had to say about hate and extremist group presence in Omaha and the entities that exist to counter that presence and prevent violence. Greene was still new to town, having uprooted from Washington, D.C., to take a new job as regional prevention coordinator for Homeland Security’s Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (OTVTP).