Author, Speaker, Advocate

“Katherine is the person you call when you’re trying to make sense of a tragedy.” – Audie Cornish, from her CNN award winning podcast, The Assignment with Audie Cornish

A middle-aged woman with blonde hair and blue eyes smiling, wearing a black blazer and blue blouse, with her chin resting on her hand.

Katherine Schweit

Creator of the FBI’s

Active Shooter Program

Book titled "Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis" by Katherine Schweit, with images of rifles on the cover.

Replace your fear with knowledge and take control of your safety

Get an insider look at what we’ve learned and failed to learn about protecting our places of commerce, houses of worship, businesses, and schools while demystifying the language around active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and more.

Filled with knowledge on the current state of mass shootings in America, you will learn the definitions, statistics, and ultimately, how to be a part of the solution.

“I cannot tell you the number of times after the shootings that I was asked, ‘What are you going to do?’ and my response always is, ‘What are we going to do.’ This book provides the answer: we all need to work together.”

— Frank DeAngelis, Columbine H.S. Principal, 1996-2014

Book cover titled "How to Talk About Guns with Anyone" by Katherine Schweit, with a foreword by John Miller, NYPD DC. The cover features silhouettes of guns at the top and bottom, and speech bubbles with text in blue and white.

Turn a divisive debate into a solution-building conversation

We don’t need to shy away from the gun conversation. Instead, we can approach the topics of guns with the courage to learn, openness to dialogue, and the willingness to consider the many solutions on the table while discovering new ones that will benefit our communities.

We can take ownership of this challenging discussion to work together to make a positive impact.

Recent Media

Katherine’s mission is to educate the public on their role in reducing and ending gun violence. While in Texas, anchor Walt Maciborski with CBS Austin sat down with the Creator of the FBI’s Active Shooter Program to discuss the importance of communication technology in crisis response as part of his series, Tech This Out.

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Where communications fail there are more casualties and more problems. Quality emergency communications systems that get the alerts out right away and tie other resources together are the solution. That’s how lives are saved.
— Katherine Schweit, CBS Austin with Walt Maciborski

Keynote Speaker, Trainer, and Consultant

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Challenge your audience to take control of their own safety by inviting Katherine to speak with your event audience. She brings her wealth of knowledge, work experience and her love of humanity to every podium.