Yana Kramarenko

Yana Kramarenko was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine. She moved to Maryland in 2009. She became interested in the criminal justice field after volunteering with the Montgomery County Post 1986. She is currently a student in the Criminology & Criminal Justice program at the University of Maryland. She anticipates to graduate in December 2018. This summer, Yana holds an internship with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. She is a part of the Center for Advanced Study of Language project where she develops a cybercrime course module. Recently, she has also completed the Interprofessional Fellowship Program at the Universities at Shady Grove with the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. For the past three years, Yana has been working in the Asset Protection department at a local retailer, where her main job is to provide safety and security. Her long-term career goal is to work for the federal government where she can utilize her professional and academic knowledge in crime prevention, safety, and security to help combat threats made to the public and national security.