Adrianna Bast is a Fingerprint & Footwear Examiner – Advanced at the Division of Forensic Science’s Wisconsin State Crime Laboratories. She has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and a Forensic Science Certificate in Death Investigation from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Adrianna joined the WI Department of Justice in 2004 as a Latent Print & Footwear Examiner. Since 2012 she has served as the ABIS Program Solutions Specialist for the WI Department of Justice, providing technical and subject matter expertise to stakeholders throughout multiple Divisions and Bureaus within WI DOJ and non-DOJ law enforcement entities, training individuals in the history, theory and use of the ABIS software, investigating quality matters as related to the system, working with the IDEMIA CSE’s to troubleshoot and document issues, interfacing with the FBI regarding NGI latent print matters, and collecting data and statistics as they pertain to the system. She served as the SME on WIDOJ’s recent upgrade to the MBIS Cloud and was involved in workflow updates and creation, acceptance and validation testing of the system, as well as post go-live troubleshooting, guideline creation, and operational change management.

In 2016, Adrianna was named WI DOJ’s Forensic Scientist of the Year for her dedication to quality and her work with the ABIS. In addition to her work with WI DOJ, Adrianna is also an American National Standards Institute National Accreditation Board (ANAB) Technical Assessor in the disciplines of Friction Ridge and Impressions.

In her spare time, Adrianna enjoys gardening, attending comic book conventions and Renaissance faires, tabletop and video gaming, sci-fi, horror, comic book and fantasy inspired media, flea markets, spending time with her fiancé and her two cats.