Jarrah Kennedy began her career at the Miami-Dade County Crime Laboratory in 2005 where she spent ~ 1 ½ years as a serologist prior to being called back to the Midwestern US in 2007 to work as a biological screener/DNA analyst at the Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, Jarrah is an assistant DNA supervisor and also serves as the Chair for the Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee (OSAC). The highlight of Jarrah’s career thus far has been participating in the NIST/NIJ Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Forensic DNA Interpretation since 2020. Jarrah’s current passion is to improve how we communicate our biological results as well as how we can help our community effectively transition into evaluations of our results given activity level propositions (if that is the issue in the case).

When not working she enjoys doing sports-related things and exploring the great outdoors with her family.