Our Team.

Holly Abel

Holly Abel is a Curriculum Developer and Training Instructor at the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) tasked with managing the online and classroom-based courses that provide guidance on proper forensic and best practices for working with financial data. Holly also functions as a liaison to Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) for the development of training courses. Her current development projects include Financial Investigations Practical Skills (FIPS), Financial Records Investigative Skills (FRIS), Financial Investigation Triage (FIT), Financial Crimes Against Seniors (FCSS), Basic Level Spreadsheeting Skills (BLSS), Money Laundering and Commingling (MLC), Financial Analysis Methodology (FAM), Introduction to Financial Crime, Mobile Examinations for Prosecutor’s (MEP), Digital Evidence Basics & the CLOUD Act (DEB), Electronic Payment Systems (EPS), Intelligence Writing and Briefing (IWAB), Foundations of Intelligence Analysis (FIAT), Intellectual Property Rights (IP), and a collaboration with the Harrison County (WV) Sheriff’s Department on an Opioid/Dark web project in West Virginia.

Holly began her career at NW3C in May 2010 as a technical support specialist managing more than $2.5 million of inventory, along with facilitating the acquisition, installation, operation and maintenance of all computer training equipment. Holly received an A.S. and a B.S. in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Law Enforcement and Computer Crime from Kaplan University.

Holly maintains active membership in multiple industry and professional associations that include: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, and ePay Resources.