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I'm Caleb Lovelace

Caleb Lovelace is an experienced protective operations professional, veteran, and former sworn law enforcement officer with over 16 years of diverse civil service public safety experience in a variety of sectors. He has served various multidisciplinary roles in mental health, government protective security, emergency management, law enforcement and healthcare services. As a life-long Alaskan, he is dedicated towards violence prevention in The Last Frontier and has been working to build more awareness and involvement in behavioral threat assessment and management in Alaska as a tool to prevent targeted violence. He also serves on the Pacific Northwest Chapter Board for the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) where he is the Satellite Captain for Alaska. His career has primarily focused on threat management with specialties in sex offender management programs (SOMP), organizational threat investigation in Workplace Violence Prevention programs (WPV), and behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM).

 

He is currently a global threat manager for a Fortune 400 technology company. Previously he served as the Agency Threat Investigator and Coordinator for the Office of Children’s Services Safety Security unit where he built and designed agency workplace safety efforts for over six years where he conducted protective operations and emergency management while leading behavioral threat assessment and management efforts. In that role he conducted protective operations management and leads behavioral threat assessment and management efforts as well physical security and occupational safety program development efforts covering over 28 facilities, 600 personnel and 663,268 square miles in some of the nation’s most remote communities and formidable terrain.

 

To reach some of his communities, Caleb routinely traveled by float plane, snowmachine, river boat, ATV, or even dog sled! He has conducted over 900 threat investigations that led to successful threat management with hundreds of successful resolutions that resulted in no additional disruptions or violence. During these experiences he has interfaced and worked with law enforcement agencies ranging from Federal agencies to the furthest north law enforcement agency in the United States, the North Slope Borough Police Department!

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Starting as a young student intern at the University of Alaska Anchorage Police Department, his multidisciplinary career included leading an EMS agency as the Command Officer and EMT Instructor for the Alaska’s largest Emergency Services Patrol that conducted involuntarily detention for individuals under the influence of narcotics or alcohol; working as the law enforcement officer assigned to child sex crimes committed by seriously mentally ill for the Alaska Department of Correction Division of Probation & Parole's Mental Health Unit; and as the primary emergency manager for the COVID-19 Pandemic Response for the nation's largest child protective service. He served as a Combat Medic in the Army National Guard, as a Department of Defense armed contractor in a force protection role as a security police officer, as a Tactical Combat Casualty Care instructor and law enforcement medical trainer, and was an invited Speaker at the 2024 Eradicate Hate Global Summit and 2025 Governor's Health & Safety Conference.

 

Caleb has served as a trainer for most of his professional life, and has taught classes on tactical medicine, prehospital trauma life support, basic personal protection, violence prevention, emergency medical technician licensing, and behavioral threat assessment for both state and federal offices. This includes highly rated training programs for the State of Alaska delving into building safe human interactions for human services and creating assessment tools and procedures for field safety of social workers.  He is a Certified Master Trainer in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management from the Department of Homeland Security and has held instructor certifications in law enforcement and emergency medical services. This includes certification as a Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Tactical Medical Instructor and as a State of Alaska Instructor for Emergency Medical Technician. He taught dozens of students in expedited courses who successfully obtained their EMT certifications for both the US Army and for the Anchorage Safety Patrol. 

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As a hobbyist technologist, Caleb is interested in communications and signals engineering, low-voltage electrical and digital systems design, computer networking, physical security systems, and artificial intelligence. You can find him on the amateur radio waves as KL5IH! As a consultant and designer under his Viking Sojourner LLC sole proprietorship, Caleb has designed nomadic electrical and communication systems to ABYC marine engineering standards for digital nomads and converted multiple vehicles to be mobile, remote living and working spaces.

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He also pursues a wide variety of volunteer and research activities. In these roles, Caleb works with a large Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) community providing counterextremism and radicalization analysis and is a volunteer with Team Rubicon disaster response organization where he serves as the State Administrator for volunteers across the entire state. He is a strong believer in the nomadic movement as a way to access and understand communities and has lived for several years as a full-time nomad across the Pacific Northwest in his self-converted campervan! He further explores the nomadic and unconventional living space as a mentor, community organizer, and event producer for the community across the Pacific Northwest.  

 

He enjoys in his (often rare) off time working on his adventure vehicle Káravan and being a Maker of Things in all disciplines and hobbies. He coaches and competes in strength sports; enjoys playing rugby and training in brazillian jiujitsu and kizomba dance; and is a passionate advocate for advancing Allyship in communities across the nation. He is an avid reader, painter, writer of fiction and non-fiction, and loves to both run and design all kinds of tabletop roleplaying games. 

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Caleb is currently pursuing graduate degrees in artificial intelligence and forensic psychology.

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