Wendy successfully completed her post-secondary education at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Police Studies and a minor in Psychology, as well as the Criminology Certificate.

Wendy is a staff sergeant with the RCMP with over 20 years of experience, having worked in a variety of positions in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario and also worked internationally on the Haiti Multinational Security Support Mission/Gang Suppression Force. Wendy has an extensive history of working on issues related to missing, vulnerable and victimized persons. She has been considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in various sexual offences, having served as a member of several Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Units, travelling overseas to teach ICE courses to other police forces and also worked as an investigative advisor abroad for sexual exploitation and abuse. She was also a member of the RCMP’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry Team and the Vulnerable Person Unit. All of these aforementioned positions have brought Wendy to her current position as the NCO I/C of the National Office of Sexual Offence Investigative Standards within the RCMP, where she leads a team who actively works towards the RCMP’s strategic initiatives to help combat Gender Based Violence.

She is currently interested in Missing Persons, sex offending, investigative techniques and serial, & sexual violent crimes. She is passionate about seeking out applied research to help inform evidence- based police practices in Canada and is currently researching missing persons as part of the CAN-SEBP Virtual Scholar Program.