Executive Director,The Miles Foundation,Waterbury, CT
Attorney, Expert in domestic violence. Editor, Domestic Violence Report and Sexual Assault Report and is the author of the book, Violence Against Women (Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 2002).
Anne ODell is a retired Detective Sergeant from the San Diego Police Department where she worked for 20 years. She is currently the Training Director for STOPDV, Inc. and has trained criminal justice, judicial and medical professionals in forty-nine states as well as Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Uzbekistan and the US Virgin Islands. She is an adjunct professor for the National College of District Attorneys and the California District Attorneys Association. She is a consultant for the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Justice and the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project of Duluth, Minnesota. She has consulted for the United States Information Agency in Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan. She is a board member of the National Center for Women in Policing and an advisory committee member for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. She is also a member of several other local and national associations which deal with domestic violence and stalking. She is the recipient of varied awards for her work including the Medal of Valor from the American Legion. She is the author of various articles regarding domestic violence and stalking. She is happily married, the mother of six children and the grandmother of seventeen. She is also a survivor of domestic violence, having left (and taking her six children) her batterer in 1975.
Vice President, Gavin De Becker, Inc. Gavin de Becker and Associates provides consultation and support to public figures, government agencies, corporations, and others who face high-stakes predictions of violence. Our eighty-five member firm advises media figures on safety and privacy. The Protective Security Division provides consultation, logistical support, advance work, and protective coverage for public figures. Our Threat Management Division evaluates and assesses inappropriate, alarming, and threatening communications and situations. We provide expert-witness consultation and testimony on court cases that involve stalking, threats, and the foreseeability or prevention of violence. We also develop artificial intuition systems known as MOSAIC®. We provide advanced training on the assessment of threats, case management, and the prediction of violent behavior to police departments, prosecutors, state and federal agencies, large corporations, and universities. Our training programs are tailored to meet individual and corporate needs. We offer one, two, and three-day training courses at Boulder Creek, our eighteen-acre training facility just outside Los Angeles.
A former prosecutor,Bob has prosecuted numerous cases of rape and sexual assault involving the use of Rohypnol and other drugs used to facilitate sexual assault and rape, and played a crucial role in enhancing the safety of women by assisting with the development of legislation in Florida concerning Rohypnol. He has testified before Congress, been a consultant to the Justice Department, and frequently lectures on this subject to law enforcement across the country. He is one of the foremost experts on the prosecution of drug-facilitated sexual assault in the country.
Dean Wideman is a forensic scientist and criminal investigative analyst for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City. Dean has expertise in the areas of general criminalistics, forensic biology (including serology and DNA analysis), crime analysis, and behavioral criminal profiling. His casework and research primarily involves violent and sexual offenders, including serial murderers and serial rapists. Dean lectures to community/civic groups and consults with local law enforcement agencies. He is also a volunteer consultant to national victim advocacy groups, including Parents of Murdered Children, Inc., Security on Campus, Inc. and the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. Dean is also the Founder and Executive Director of Crime Analytica, Inc. (CAI), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of unsolved violent and sexual crimes and their families by reviewing their cases, providing second opinions, offering criminal profiles, and/or suggesting investigative strategies. Contact Info: caseclues@pocketmail.com or 888.528.8258
Frank R. Ascione, PhD Professor Department of Psychology Utah State University Logan, UTAH 84322-2810 Research Interests: Social development, prosocial and moral development, child maltreatment, Conduct Disorder, animal abuse and psychopathology, domestic violence Teaching Interests: Child and adolescent
Iowa -- Marion County Sheriff -- Experience/expertise: Member National Advisory Council Violence Against Women, Past President Iowa Sheriffs' and Deputies'Association, Member State of Iowa Violence Against Women Coordinating Council
President/CEO Barrier Free Living, Co-chair, Mental Health Committee of the New York City Task Force against Domestic Violence. Barrier Free Living is the provider of non-residential domestic violence services for victims with disabilities.
Captain, Indiana University Police Department - Indianapolis Division
Nora is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Counseling Center of West Los Angeles. Her practice specializes in trauma and abuse related issues, depression and anxiety, children and adults with disabilities, sex therapy, couple counseling, and gerontology. Area(s) of expertise include forensic interviewing & training of law enforcement personnel; risk reduction protocols; reporting skills; treatment of victims of assault; and serving as an expert witness for developmental disability cases. Contact Information: P.O. Box "T" Culver City, Ca 90230
Mike McCarty is the Director of the Public Training Institute and Breaking the Cycle, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in training seminars on the issue of violence against women and children. He facilitates workshops on awareness and intervention in domestic violence and sexual assault for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, advocates, social workers, health care providers, therapists, correctional professionals, security companies and corporate/ EAP programs. Mike was one of the original detectives with the Domestic Violence Division in Nashville, Tennessee and was instrumental in implementing the community-based program. Nashville's Domestic Violence Unit has been labeled a model program by the U.S. Department of Justice and former President Clinton and has been adopted by communities throughout the world. Mike facilitates training seminars throughout the United States for organizations such as: U.S. Department of Justice- Violence Against Women Office; U.S. Department of Defense; Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; National Center for Women and Policing; Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project; Indiana Resource & Training Institute on Violence Against Women; Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault; Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault;Alabama Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Kentucky Domestic Violence Association; Kentucky Sexual Assault Association; Kentucky Governor's Office; National Training Center for Domestic and Sexual Violence; South East Missouri State University; NBD Bank. Mike is also on the Advisory Board for Communities Against Violence Network (CAVNET) headquartered in Washington D.C. He graduated from Wabash College with a B.A. in History and Psychology and is currently working on a M.A. in Criminology.
Dick Sobsey is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta. He has worked with children and adults with severe developmental disabilities since 1968 as a nurse and a teacher. Since 1987, he has been engaged in extensive research on the relationship between violence and disability. He has published many articles and books on this topic including Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities. Dick Sobsey is also the father of two children including a school-aged son with a severe developmental disability. Dick Sobsey, Director JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre University of Alberta 6-123 Education North Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5 Canada
Dr. Randy Borum is Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. He is a licensed psychologist and is Board-Certified (ABPP) and fellowship-trained in Forensic Psychology. Prior to coming to USF, Dr. Borum was Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at Duke University Medical Center. He has previously served as Forensic Coordinator for a regional state psychiatric facility, and as a sworn police officer for municipal departments in Maryland and Florida. His areas of research and publication have focused on violence risk assessment, understanding and preventing violent behavior, and the interface between mental health and criminal/juvenile justice. He regularly conducts risk assessment training for mental health and school personnel, and for professionals in the justice system and secure intelligence community. Dr. Borum is currently a consultant to the U.S. Secret Service, Intelligence Division in the National Threat Assessment Center, and Advisory Board Member for the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. He is also the co-principal investigator in the Coordinating Center (led by Research Triangle Institute)for SAMSHSA's multi-site Criminal Justice Diversion Initiative for Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorders. He currently serves as Secretary of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.
Karla Kerlin is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County currently assigned as the Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy District Attorney. For eight years, Karla vertically prosecuted sex crimes and child abuse cases. Karla frequently trains on sex crimes and child abuse, and is a faculty member for the childPROOF course sponsored by the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse of APRI. Karla can be reached at: kkerlin@lacountyda.org
Sarah is a Native American attorney with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute and a former staff attorney of the Office on Violence Against Women at the United States Department of Justice. The Tribal Law and Policy Institute is a Native American owned and operated non-profit corporation organized to design and deliver education, research, training, and technical assistance programs which promote the enhancement of justice in Indian country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples. Sarah is a citizen of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.
Director of Victim Services for National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)
Dr. Anita Batman has been a Commissioned Corps Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Since 1975. She has been Regional Health Administrator of the Mid-Atlantic Region since November 1995. As Regional Health Administrator, Dr. Batman serves as the principle official in the Mid-Atlantic Region (PA, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV) providing oversight and coordination to the programs of the U. S. Public Health Service. She participates in policy development and implementation. She directs and coordinates the Regional Programs of the OPHS, including the Offices of Emergency Preparedness, Minority Health, Women's Health, and Population Affairs, as well as overseeing the CDC's National Immunization Program Regional Outreach Coordinator. She develops Regional public health goals and objectives consistent with the needs of the population and in conformity with national health priorities and objectives. Dr. Batman was, for 8 years prior to this, the Regional Clinical Coordinator. In that capacity she helped found CRAN, a regional network of clinicians at Bureau of Primary Health Care-funded projects, and was instrumental in the development of software for computerized chart audit which automated the production of Federally mandated reports, as well as generating data for clinical research and quality improvement. She developed the database of clinicians working in federally funded healthcare systems, in order to communicate with the clinicians, support them, and track factors that best promoted retention. She developed the orientation curriculum and handbook for new Medical Directors for the Region, and pro-actively arranged professional education, particularly in the areas of clinical leadership and response to violence. Dr. Batman had a long career as National Health Service Corps Physician, providing care for underserved areas and high risk populations, including in the deep South, Appalachia, migrant health and urban inner-city. These experiences have included collaboration with State and local health department staff in the provision of perinatal and pediatric care, as well as clinics for chronic disease. Her areas of expertise have included: Family Practice; high volume/low risk obstetrical care; family centered obstetrical delivery systems and education, victim of violence recognition, advocacy, and primary care support; family planning; clinical systems. Engineering and medical: leadership, management and quality assurance. Prior research experience: SIDS, State vital statistics reports, perinatal systems, G6PD deficiency, Plethismography in abnormal sexuality, Birthweight vs. maternal smoking, Creativity vs. Intelligence study, laminar flow, wing design in STOL, semiconduction in C-6 Hydrocarbons, primary care management of battery and abuse victims and assessing the frequency of trauma-related encounters in primary health services. Dr. Batman has been active in professional and grass-roots organizations addressing interpersonal violence, and has since 1987 maintained part-time, private no-charge counseling practice for victims of abuse. She serves two days a month as a volunteer physician in a family planning clinic in Camden, NJ. Dr. Batman is a Board Certified Family Practitioner, trained at the University of Mississippi. She was originally a mechanical engineer, with an undergraduate degree in Physics, cum laude, from Smith College in Northampton MA, engineering courses from Mississippi State University, and graduate work in physics at Columbia University. Awards: PHS Citation '82 for service to an underserved isolated community, PHS Citation '84 for significant reduction in perinatal mortality in a rural county, PHS Commendation '92, Citation of State of New Jersey Commission on Sex Discrimination in the Statutes '94, Citation of Delaware River Port Authority for roadside resuscitation of an MVA victim, Regional Director's Citation '93, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service '96, and '97. PHS Outstanding Service Medal '96, PHS Bicentennial medal '98, outstanding Unit Citation '99, and Crisis response Medal '99 for service in the Kosovar Medical Clinic, Fr. Dix, NJ. Dr. Batman has numerous publications and lectures in the areas of interpersonal violence, perinatal care, medical quality assurance, SIDS, and clinical systems and roles in Community and Migrant Health Centers. She contributed a chapter for the book "Hostage Children," on abuse of children as custodial pawns, Rosen and Etlin, Indiana University Press 9/96.
Linda is former Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office (Manhattan), and had been a prosecutor in the office for 27 years. Linda has expertise in the investigation and prosecution of: sexual assault cases, homicides, domestic violence and child abuse matters, the criminal justice system, stalking, cyberstalking, and internet crimes. She is Chair of the New York Women's Agenda Domestic Violence Coalition. Linda speaks to community groups and lectures nationally and internationally to law enforcement agencies, and trains police and prosecutors, medical and health care providers. Linda is also a respected author, having written nonfiction and a series of fictional crime novels --Final Jeopardy, Likely To Die, and her newest, Cold Hit.
Now a consultant and attorney in private practice, Seth Goldstein, is the Executive Director of the Child Abuse Forensic Institute, which he created in 1992. He was the investigator and Project Director for the Child Abuse Vertical Prosection Unit of the Napa County District Attorney, Napa, California for four years. He also worked as an investigator with the Santa Clara County District Attorney, San Jose, California, for three years. He now represents parents in Family Law, Juvenile, and Personal Injury matters wherein child abuse allegations have arisen. He worked for the Berkeley, California, Police Department for thirteen years - three as a cadet and ten as a police officer. He served in the Patrol, Service, and Detective Divisions of the police department, including two years as a Juvenile Officer. He grew up in Berkeley and holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, at Berkeley. He was conferred a J.D. degree from the Oakland College of Law and was admitted to the California Bar in 1995. He was, formally, the Chairman of the Northern California Juvenile Officers Association Committee on Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Children and has served as the Association's President and editor of its newsletter. He has presented at seminars and workshops throughout the country and in Europe, including the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va. He has written several articles on the subject of sexual abuse and exploitation of children which have been published nationally and has received several awards for his work, including the American Bar Association's (ABA) Gavel Award in 1980, the California State Juvenile Officer's Dan Pursuit Award (Officer of the Year), in 1990, and the ABA, Child Advocacy, National Certificate of Recognition for Significant Legal Contributions Advancing the Welfare of Our Nation's Children, in 1997. He is the author of the textbook The Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Investigation, and Intervention, now in its second edition, published by CRC Press. He has testified as an expert witness in court, including a branch of the Florida Supreme Court, as well as numerous California and Federal legislative commissions and committees. He sat on the California and United States Department of Justice Committees that created investigative and academy curriculum for investigations of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. He was a consultant to National Resource Center on Sexual Abuse of Children and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). He sat on the California Attorney General's Violent Crime Information Systems Advisory Group and was a founding Member of the Board of Directors of the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children. In April of 1985, was invited to the White House to meet with President Ronald Reagan about the issue of missing and exploited children.
Molly Dragiewicz is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Justice, and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of technology. Her research interests include violence and gender, human trafficking, and human rights.
Beth H. Taylor RN, BSN, Program Manager of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program of Crisis Services of North Alabama. Mrs. Taylor is currently serving on the Alabama Sexual Assault Advisory Board, and on the Alabama Crime Victim's Compensation Committee, both of which are sponsored by the Alabama Coalition Against Rape. Mrs. Taylor is an Executive Board member of the Madison County Council against Domestic Violence, in which she is chairman of the Medical Committee. Mrs. Taylor is active in community organizations, including serving on the Southeast Symposium against Community Violence in Madison County.
I'm an Assistant State's Attorney in Prince George's County, Maryland, specializing in domestic violence and child abuse cases. Prior to being in Maryland, I was an ASA in Miami (Dade County) Florida for a number of years. I also spent 1997 to 1999 working as a senior attorney for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. Spent the two years traveling around the country (and a few islands, including Guam) training multi-disciplinary teams in the investigation and prosecution of child physical and sexual abuse cases. I am still involved in training, through APRI, APSAC and locally as well.
Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of America. Former Executive Director, President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, DC
Executive Director, Center for the Prevention of School Violence. Dr. Riley has been the executive director of the Center for the Prevention of School Violence since its establishment in late 1993. She was drawn to her current position because of her desire to ensure that schools are able to fulfill their educational missions. Her previous work in schools exposed her to the fact that schools today are in need of assistance to ensure that they are places which are free of crime and conducive to learning. Prior to her directorship of the Center, Dr. Riley was a principal and was responsible for implementing creative curriculum and management strategies. Dr. Riley also worked in North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction (DPI) as an education consultant and instructional specialist with expertise in citizenship education. She also taught history and social studies at the middle and high school levels. Dr. Riley is a state-level Coordinator of Youth for Justice, a national law-related education project. She serves on the advisory board of the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence, the National School Safety Center Editorial Advisory Board, the editorial board of Inside School Safety, the Juvenile Justice Committee of the Governor's Crime Commission, and the NC Association of School Resource Officers. The Center which Dr. Riley directs exists as a primary point of contact for information, programs, and research about the problem of school violence and efforts directed at preventing it from occurring. The Center provides a bridge for cooperation between various agencies involved in school violence prevention. In her capacity as the Center's director, Dr. Riley is viewed as a national expert on school violence prevention and has been interviewed by numerous local, state, and national media. She holds an Ed.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 1-800-299-6054 http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv/
Author, "Not To People Like Us".
Professor of Social Policy, Director, The Center for Social Change, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110 The Center for Social Change was established in 1984, the 25th anniversary of the Heller School, in order to put issues of social and economic justice and human solidarity on the School's agenda. The work of the Center is based on the recognition that human ills and social problems are rooted in societal structures and dynamics, and in values and ideologies that tend to justify and maintain prevailing social orders and ways of life. Accordingly, the Center aims to contribute through its work toward transforming social, economic and political institutions which involve domination and exploitation, injustice and discrimination, conflict in human relations, and ecological destruction into alternative institutions conducive to healthy human development for all from local to global levels. Such alternative institutions would be shaped by values of social equality and human solidarity, individual liberty and responsibility, real democracy in every domain of life, and harmony in human relations and in relations to nature. The Center's studies and projects focus on social polices conducive to human development, social-change-oriented modes of practice in human services, and non-violent social change strategies. Priority areas for Center studies are the redefinition, reorganization, and redesign of work since prevailing modes of work and terms of exchange and distribution of work products inhibit human development, and cause severe social problems. Other foci of Center studies are the sources, dynamics and prevention of violence, assessment of progress toward compliance with human rights standards as defined by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and community organization, empowerment, and social change projects in Israel. The Center offers graduate courses, tutorials, Ph.D. dissertation guidance and seminars, and colloquia at the School. It consults with individuals and organizations in the community, participates in social-change-oriented activities, sponsors visiting scholars in residence at the School, maintains a publications program, and organizes conferences.
Women's Justice Center Centro de Justicia Para Mujeres Bilingual (Spanish) Website: www.justicewomen.com 250 Sebastopol Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Founder of WomanKind: An Integrated Model of 24-Hour Health Care Response to Domestic Violence; executive director of WomanKind for 14 years; adjunct faculty of University of Minnesota Medical School, School of Public Health, and School of Social Work