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and Director of Counter-Radicalization & Counter-Extremism at The TAM Group. Dr. Tahir Wyatt is an Executive Board Member and of Director of Theology & Radical Discourse at The TAM Group. Jeffery Carroll is currently serving as the Assistant Chief, managing the Homeland Security Bureau (HSB). His position is one of five Executive Command Staff positions that are responsible for the implementation of goals and objectives set by the Chief of Police and Mayor of the District of Columbia. Additional bio info: https://mpdc.dc.gov/biography/commander-jeffery-carroll-0 Conference: Effectively Countering Extremism: A Comprehensive Grassroots Approach held at the Newseum's Knight Conference Center on August 7th, 2017. Dr. Wyatt holds undergraduate degrees in Arabic and Islamic studies (with a focus on Prophet Traditions) as well as graduate degrees in Islamic theology and comparative religion. His PhD dissertation was on “The Unitarians and their critique of Trinitarian Doctrine”. In 2013 he became the first and only American appointed to teach at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second holiest site in the Muslim World. He has lived and studied overseas in Saudi Arabia for over twenty years and is fluent in the Arabic language. His current research focuses on the theological premise for radicalization and processes through which it is deconstructed, and extremist narratives are contextualized. Dr. Baker is the founder and Managing Director of Strategy To Reach Empower & Educate Teenagers (STREET) UK, a former Lecturer in Terrorism Studies at the Centre of Studies in Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) in the University of St Andrews and Research Fellow at the University of Exeter’s European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC). His position and experiences as the former chairman of Brixton Mosque, London between 1994 and 2009 have led to him being widely acknowledged as an authority on processes relating to violent extremism and counter-radicalization in the UK. He is the author of Extremists in Our Midst: Confronting Terror (Palgrave MacMillan 2011 & 2015) and has contributed to a number of publications addressing causes of violent extremism. To successfully combat extremism, we must be able to identify and effectively challenge precursors to radicalization. Violent extremism often proliferates at the grassroots level, where susceptible individuals are able to isolate themselves from their wider communities without attracting too much attention. Without robust and proactive action at this level, we are poorly equipped to contain the threat of terrorism. The TAM Group provides multidisciplinary expertise available to effectively address and combat extremism. Due to the complexity of this topic a comprehensive and multi-layered approach is required where societal precursors to radicalization are identified and effectively challenged. Visit us at Website Thetamgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetamgroup Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/THETAMGROUP/