CAVNET Board of Directors Page
CAVNET
(Communities Against Violence Network)
Directors Page

Meet CAVNET's Board of Directors

Marc Dubin
Marc is the Founder and Executive Director of CAVNET. He is a former prosecutor with extensive experience prosecuting domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, child abuse, and hate crimes. He is also a former Special Assistant United States Attorney. He formerly served as Special Counsel to the Violence Against Women Office at the United States Department of Justice and is an expert in the federal civil rights of people with disabilities. As Special Counsel, Marc worked directly with Bonnie Campbell, the Director of the Office, and assisted in handling the Department’s legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinating Departmental efforts, providing national and international leadership, receiving international visitors interested in learning about the federal government’s role in addressing violence against women, and responding to requests for information regarding violence against women. The Office works closely with other components of OJP, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Immigration and Naturalization Office, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, and state, tribal and local jurisdictions.

Picture of Gael Strack Gael Strack
Assistant City Attorney, San Diego City Attorney’s Office. She is in charge of the Domestic Violence Unit and Special Projects for the Criminal Division. She regularly provides domestic violence training for domestic violence professionals across the country.

James Hardeman
Professor, Boston College School of Social Work. Expert in workplace violence.

Picture of Joan Zorza Joan Zorza (Resume)
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).

Robert Fein
Dr. Fein is director of the National Violence Prevention and Study Center in Cambridge and co-director of the Secret Service Safe School Initiative. He is a forensic psychologist who has worked on questions of interpersonal violence for 25 years, as a clinician, researcher, and administrator. He formerly served as a psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center.

Rita Smith
Executive Director, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Peter Sturman
Peter Sturman is a detective in the Metropolitan Police, London. He is responsible for development of a comprehensive report to the Home Office on the subject of drug-facilitated sexual assault, looking at all aspects of drug rape in the UK.

Sarah Buel
Law Professor, University of Texas. Survivor. Expert in domestic violence

Bonnie Campbell
Attorney. Former Director of the Violence Against Women Office at the US Department of Justice.