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C. Joshua Villines is the Executive Director of the Human Intelligence Group, an agency that specializes in training law enforcement and investigative personnel in interviews and interrogation, intelligence collection and analysis, firearms and tactics, crime prevention, threat assessment, and related topics. Joshua holds the CPP, PCI, and PSP certifications from ASIS International, and the ICPS Designation from the International Association of Crime Prevention Specialists. He presently sits on the Professional Certification Board for ASIS.

In addition to his professional work for The HUMINT Group, Joshua has always worked bi-vocationally in both the practice and the academic study of religion. He is credentialed as an Adjunct Professor at Mercer University (where he has taught World Religions and Biblical Studies) and reached the level Ph.D. Candidate focusing on Religion and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, although he is not currently working on his dissertation. He is an active member of (and often a speaker for) the Human Rights Campaign, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Soulforce, People for the American Way, and other progressive groups. Joshua is ordained, and fully-endorsed as a Chaplain

Prior to embarking on his professional career, Joshua worked as a technical writer and a journalist covering the computer game industry. His one lone use as a footnote in a Wikipedia page is a testimony to that work.

Joshua is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute (Russian), the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (Interrogation), the U.S. Army Airborne School, the British Joint-Services Interrogation Course, the Primary Leadership Development Course (Honor Graduate), and the Basic Non-Commissioned Officer's Course. Joshua held a Top-Secret (SSBI) Clearance and earned DoD certification as a Russian (3/2+) and a Spanish (3/3) linguist.