Today I sat down with my friend and sister Sunny. We talk about accountability, and how we show up in the world so the right change happens. Sunny also shares with us our encounter with Harry Belefonte and what he says we should do as leaders to create change. We must get in the room where decisions are being made. Being in the room has allowed her to be apart of the change that is happening. Join us as we attempt to come up with a formula to help each other and ourselves.
Sunnetta “Sunny” Slaughter is a noted Vulnerability Expert, federal law enforcement instructor and
consultant for the Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, TEDx
Speaker and Master-Connector bringing over 30-years of executive consultancy, tactical guidance and
professional training to a cross-section of professionals in government, corporate, business, nonprofit,
for-profit, organization, faith-based, academia, and the healthcare industry. Sunny received special
consideration for entry into the Department of Homeland Security Drug Taskforce Supervisory Training
Program and the Hate and Bias Crimes Course for sworn law enforcement. She was the only female and
African American in one class, and the only person without arrest powers in both classes.
Sunny is a highly skilled and qualified thought-leader offering a unique perspective on the intersecting
complexities of vulnerability, crime, and policy. Her expertise has been beneficial in providing consulting,
training, offering policy perspectives and subject matter expertise in the query of criminal incidents and
legal cases, as well as, by raising awareness within public and private spaces regarding vulnerability,
intersectional violence, domestic and sexual violence, workplace violence, human trafficking and
exploitation, child pornography, missing and sometimes murdered children, drug trafficking, the Opioid
Impact, mass incarceration, criminal justice reform, reentry, ACES, and community policing.
Sunny has worked as a subject matter expert with news anchors and journalists developing background
information for investigative reports and news stories. She has served as an on-camera Crime Analyst
for national and global media outlets, including; ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN/HLN After Dark, and Trinity
Broadcast Network. She delivered a riveting TEDx Talk titled “What are You Really Willing to do for
Others?” revealing her personal story of finding out she was married to a child predator.
She has called the Olivia Pope of Crime and a Master Connector.