Christiane Hurt is the Acting Director of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP). She has been active in the anti-rape movement since 1991, when she first volunteered in a North Carolina rape crisis center. Ms. Hurt received her Master’s Degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a staff member of WCSAP since 1998. Ms. Hurt is a recognized trainer on organizational development and change, strategic planning, and board development. She has a special interest in nonprofit management within the unique rape crisis center environment.

Robert W. Dumond is a board certified [NBCC} and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor [MA & NH] and a Diplomate of Clinical Forensic Counseling who has served crime victims and witnesses in a number of criminal justice venues since 1970, most notably as Director – Victim/Witness Assistance with the Essex County (MA) District Attorney’s Office and with the Massachusetts Department of Correction, as Psychologist III/Mental Health Administrator and Director – Research & Planning Division.

Since 2001, Cat Fribley has supervised the National Resource Sharing Project (RSP) for the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Through this project, she provides capacity building training and technical assistance to state and territorial sexual assault coalitions and coordinates national activities. She has worked to end violence against women for 12 years at national, state, and local advocacy organizations. Ms. Fribley has trained on sexual assault issues with special focus on survivors giving birth, healing sexuality, online counseling, SART development and GLBT issues. She has also provided trainings on board development, strategic planning, anti-racist organization building and statewide collaborations.

Isela is the Immigration Project Coordinator for the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association and serves as a liaison and resource to KDVA’s member programs that are working with Immigrant and Refugee Women and their children. In addition, as part of her duties at KDVA, Isela also works with the KDVA/KASAP Immigrant Women and Refugee Taskforce, which provides training across the state in the areas of Cultural Competency, Language Accessibility, Immigration Issues and Public Benefits as they apply to Immigrant and Refugee victims of violence. Isela’s work focuses on providing technical assistance to partner agencies that work directly with immigrant communities.

Victoria L. Banyard, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UNH and Co-director of Prevention Innovations: Research and practices to end violence against women on campus. She chairs the Sexual Harassment And Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) Advisory Board, and is an evaluation consultant on the bystander intervention program, part of a grant to reduce violence against women with the University of New Hampshire Police Department. Her research focuses on consequences of interpersonal violence including resilience. She was the principal investigator on an NIJ grant to evaluate sexual assault prevention program based on a bystander intervention model.

Robert Eckstein, M.S. is an instructor in Psychology and Justice Studies at UNH. He is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Loyola College of Maryland. And one of the main trainers and facilitators of the “Bringing in the Bystander” prevention program at UNH. He has experience educating students using a bystander approach and also training professionals to implement a bystander-focused prevention program. He is also a member of the SHARPP Advisory Board.

Juli Ana Grant is a Senior Associate working on the implementation of sex offense, youthful offender, and domestic violence courts throughout New York State. Prior to her work at the Center, Ms. Grant was the Director of the Safe Horizon Brooklyn Criminal and Supreme Courts Program, overseeing the provision of services and child care to victims of crime in Brooklyn Criminal Court, Brooklyn Supreme Court, the Brooklyn Family Justice Center and the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Ms. Grant also worked for Legal Momentum, coordinating their Public Education and Outreach Program and as an Associate in the National Judicial Education Program.

Kim Day is a registered nurse with over 28 years of critical care/emergency department experience. She became a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in 1998 and helped establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner program at her local hospital, eventually serving as coordinator of that program. She is the Sexual Assault Forensic Nurse Examiner Technical Assistance Coordinator with the International Association of Forensic Nurses. In this position, she addresses the needs of service providers and works to strengthen the quality of medical forensic care given by sexual assault forensic nurse examiners, promoting a multi-disciplinary community-based approach.

Malissa Martino is a 2003 graduate of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in education. In 2004, she joined the staff of PASSAGES, Inc. as a prevention educator. PASSAGES' two-member Prevention Education Team provides over 600 programs each year in Clarion, Clearfield, and Jefferson counties. After seeing a need for programs addressing the growing problem of online sexual predators, Malissa created the three-part curriculum, "Invisible Predators: Hidden Dangers of the Internet." These programs have become some of the most requested ones at PASSAGES to date.

Lydia Guy is the Prevention Services Director for the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. She is responsible for the provision of training, technical assistance, and resource production for sexual assault service providers throughout the state as well as nationally. Her focus is the development and implementation of community mobilizing strategies specific to sexual violence. Lydia has been active in the anti-rape movement since 1992 and is a board member of National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. She is committed to providing training and producing publications on the issue of sexual violence that are relevant, culturally competent, and innovative.

Tim Love is the Youth Services Coordinator for the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA). He has over eight years of experience working with youth in various educational settings. Tim spent several years with the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless working with, educating about, and advocating for individuals experiencing homelessness. Tim worked as a Sexual Assault Prevention Educator at the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center and served for three years on the Students Taking Action for Respect Conference Planning Committee. In his current position, Tim provides youth programming and outreach, including the STAR (Students Taking Action for Respect) program, a program designed to provide leadership and prevention skills to youth around issues of sexual and dating violence.

As the Research Manager at Jane Doe Inc. (JDI) for nine years, Ms. Meade has worked on data collection issues throughout Massachusetts, including local rape crisis centers and domestic violence programs. She is co-chair of the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence Data Analysis, Research and Evaluation Committee. She is developing and implementing a statewide data collection tool for JDI’s member organizations. In addition, she provides technical assistance to member organizations and the general public on various data needs. Ms. Meade has an MSW and is pursuing her PhD.

Pamela Alba, MA LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has been working with acute/chronic mental health as well as substance and process addiction issues since 1994. She is a trauma resolution specialist and trains rape crisis center therapists in advanced trauma resolution skills. Currently, she is the SAFE/SART coordinator for the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, where she facilitates development of multi-disciplinary policy to enhance response to sexual assault victims. She is also an on-call advocate at Anne Arundel Medical Center.

Ms. Garvin is the Director of Programs for NCVLI. She provides programmatic oversight for all aspects of NCVLI. Ms. Garvin participates in NCVLI’s impact litigation, writing amicus curiae briefs for state and federal courts nationwide, and providing legal technical assistance to attorneys representing crime victims throughout the nation. Ms. Garvin participates in national forums to develop policy on victims’ rights and has testified before Congress on the current state of federal victim law. Prior to joining NCVLI, Ms. Garvin clerked for the Honorable Donald P. Lay of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals then practiced law in a private firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound, an M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Antoinette Savage is an Afrikan-American Incest Survivor. She advocates for breaking collective silence regarding incest. At the age of 34, she testified against her perpetrator, which led to a sentence of sixty years. She also spoke at his funeral. Her workshops are based on her own life experiences. She is currently writing a book titled, A Cry from the Wilderness: Incest within the Black Community.

Stephanie provides long-term advocacy services to survivors/co-survivors, technical assistance/training to law enforcement, criminal justice system, and community partners, and coordination of outreach events aimed at awareness on sexual violence. With the goal of empowering survivors of relationship and sexual violence, Stephanie co-facilitates the Central Ohio Sexual Assault Taskforce (COSATF) in partnership with law enforcement, SANE, counselors, and advocates. With her 10 years of counseling experience, Stephanie has worked with Deaf and Hard of Hearing youth and their families in dealing with bi-cultural and mental health challenges. In addition to advocacy work at SARNCO, she provides psychotherapy services in there work with D/HOH female survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence at Southeast, Inc in Columbus, Ohio.

Suzanne Brown-McBride began her work on behalf of sexual assault victims in the early 1990’s as a community educator and advocate. She went on to manage and direct several sexual assault and domestic violence service programs in Oregon and Washington State. As Director of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA), Suzanne has focused her advocacy efforts on the development of effective public policy related to sexual assault victimization, the supervision of sex offenders, and community responses to violence. In addition to a variety of other taskforces and workgroups, Suzanne serves as an appointee to California’s Sex Offender Management Board.

Robert Coombs, Director of Public Affairs for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA), holds a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied Organizational Communication & Social Justice. His research and training includes strategic planning, organizational culture, and conflict resolution. A sexual violence prevention educator since 1999, Robert’s background in judicial affairs, public relations, and international affairs has allowed him to work in a variety of contexts. He has been a trainer and facilitator in six countries with audiences including the military, educators, athletes, law enforcement, faith communities, business leaders, youth, men’s groups, and community organizations.

Sarah Dawgert, MSW, is a consultant to organizations working to empower women. Prior to this work, She was the public education coordinator at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. She has spoken to a wide variety of audiences on a range of issues related to sexual violence, trained and coordinated community educators as well as survivor speakers, and facilitated state certification trainings for rape crisis counselors. She presented at the National Sexual Assault Conference in 2005, and has been published in dozens of newspapers. Sarah holds a Masters of Social Work from Boston University.

Kimber is the Statewide Minority Outreach Coordinator for the CARe Initiative in Indiana, which provides sexual violence prevention education and technical assistance for minority communities in the state of Indiana. Kimber’s experiences as a survivor of sexual violence and as a therapist working with victims provide her with insight into barriers and challenges in providing culturally-relevant sexual violence prevention services. Kimber serves as the vice chair of the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and is the President of the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at Purdue University. Kimber uses the arts to express herself and is the mother of three daughters.

Kimber is the Statewide Minority Outreach Coordinator for the CARe Initiative in Indiana, which provides sexual violence prevention education and technical assistance for minority communities. Kimber serves as the vice chair of the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and is the President of the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at Purdue University. In 2003, she was awarded the Cesar Chavez “Si Se Puede” Award for her sexual violence prevention education work with the Migrant Farm Worker community. In 2006, the Migrant Clinician Network identified the CARe Initiative as the only program in the United States providing sexual violence prevention education to the Migrant Farm Worker community.

Claudia J. Bayliff, Esq. is the Chief of the United States Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program. She is responsible for administering the new Air Force program, including developing and implementing the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response policy. She was the National Judicial Education Program's Project Attorney for its Understanding Sexual Violence grants from October 1996 to August 2005. Ms Bayliff served as the Assistant Director of the Boulder County Rape Crisis Team from 1989 to 1993. In addition, she lectures to various professional organizations about violence against women and women's relationship to the legal system.

Judy Benitez has been executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) since 1993. She previously served as a victim advocate and program director at a prosecutor-based victim assistance and rape crisis program. She is a former reporter with experience at newspapers in New York, Virginia, and Louisiana. She holds a master’s degree in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Judy has been qualified as an expert witness in state court and continues to volunteer with her local rape crisis center, providing counseling and medical advocacy to victims and survivors.

David S. Lee, MPH, is the Prevention Connection Manager at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault where he coordinates online discussion forums on preventing violence against women. He is the Manager of MyStrength, CALCASA’s social marketing campaign to engage youth and men to prevent sexual violence. David has been involved in the movement to end sexual assault and domestic violence since 1982. He focuses on prevention and the development of community responses. He has developed and provided training to educators, health care professionals, law enforcement, clergy, faith leaders, business leaders, social workers, therapists, welfare workers, substance abuse treatment providers, youth, and community organizations.

Rebecca K. Odor, MSW, is currently the Director of Sexual & Domestic Violence Prevention at the Division of Injury and Violence Prevention at the Virginia Department of Health. Her current job involves oversight of research projects, public awareness campaigns, training, and policy development in the area of sexual and domestic violence prevention. In addition, she manages a federal grant for child and adolescent violence prevention and is a certified trainer in suicide prevention. She has been employed by the Department of Health working in violence prevention or HIV/STD prevention for nine years. Becky received her Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Longwood University.

Alisa Klein is a policy consultant on sexual violence prevention. She is currently on the National Project to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence in Disasters and serves as Public Policy Consultant to the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Alisa’s previous experience in the sexual assault field includes Director of Public Policy for a national child sexual abuse prevention organization, educator, counselor and advocate. She is a member of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Advisory Council and serves as an Expert Panelist for the Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Project of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

Anya Lakner is a Project Attorney for the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at The Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center. She represents workers who have experienced employment discrimination. She focuses on workplace rights of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors. Ms. Lakner is a 2005 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. During law school, she clerked for the Honorable Ann Claire Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; the ACLU of Northern California; and LAS-ELC. She represented indigent clients at the Northeastern Poverty Law and Practice Clinic.

Since 2001, Cat Fribley has supervised the National Resource Sharing Project (RSP) for the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Through this project, she provides capacity building training and technical assistance to state and territorial sexual assault coalitions and coordinates national activities. She has worked to end violence against women for 12 years at national, state, and local advocacy organizations. Ms. Fribley has trained on sexual assault issues with special focus on survivors giving birth, healing sexuality, online counseling, SART development and GLBT issues. She has also provided trainings on board development, strategic planning, anti-racist organization building and statewide collaborations.

Sheryll Brown, MPH is an epidemiologist with the Injury Prevention Service, Oklahoma State Department of Health. She is the project director for the Oklahoma Violent Death Reporting System, and has served as project director and epidemiologist on several injury prevention programs including intimate partner violence, the Oklahoma Violence Against Women Assessment and Strategic Planning project, and the Oklahoma Rape Prevention Education program. She is the Injury Prevention Service designee to the Oklahoma Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. She has authored or co-authored publications, including peer-reviewed articles, on intimate partner violence and sexual violence in Oklahoma.

Shelli Stephens-Stidham is the Chief of the Injury Prevention Service at the Oklahoma State Department of Health. She is responsible for planning and coordinating the development, implementation, and evaluation of statewide and community-based injury and violence prevention programs. She has developed injury prevention training materials for local injury programs and conducted numerous training seminars and presentations on injury and violence prevention. She is president-elect of the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) and co-chair of the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI).

Kathy Middleton, LSW, LADC coordinates the Sexual Violence Prevention Education Program for the Oklahoma State Department of Health. She has 28 years experience in social services program development, violence prevention, research, addiction counseling, international and regional social work, and teaching. Kathy authored the trainings, “Bullying 101 and 102” and “A Public Health Guide to Bullying Prevention” reaching over 9,000 faculty, administrators, and health care providers. She has a private practice in chemical dependency treatment; serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Sociology, and is completing certification as a national Olweus Bullying Prevention Trainer.

Jeanie is the Director/Therapist of the Sexual Assault Center in Green Bay, WI and has worked in the sexual assault field for 20 years. During her time as director, she has implemented a plan to provide culturally sensitive services to sexual assault victims from the Hispanic, Native American, Southeast Asian, Developmentally Disabled, Elderly, and LGBT communities. She has provided training on sexual assault issues to the medical, law enforcement, mental health, advocacy, and school communities and assists the WI Office of Justice Assistance and Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault with law enforcement training throughout the state. Jeanie has a Master's Degree in Social Work from UW-Milwaukee.

Casey Keene has been at the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence since 2001, and currently serves as the VAWnet Resource Coordinator for the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women. Her background includes domestic violence technical assistance and information provision at the national level as well as counseling and crisis intervention at the local level. Ms. Keene specializes in issues related to children’s exposure to domestic violence, having conducted research and spoken about her experience at trainings and conferences. Ms. Keene is currently pursuing her MSW from Temple University, completing her practicum at the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Debbie Rollo has worked in the anti-sexual violence movement for 17 years. She currently is the SART Resource Coordinator with National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Prior to NSVRC, Debbie held the position of Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator with the STOP Violence Against Women Grant’s Technical Assistance Project in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a hospital and crisis line advocate and held the position of Victim/Witness Assistant with a State District Attorney’s office.

In 2006, Governor Rendell appointed and the Pennsylvania Senate confirmed Ms. Lavery as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Victim Advocate. She represents the rights of crime victims before the Board of Probation and Parole and the Department of Corrections. She also oversees the state’s Address Confidentiality Program. Ms. Lavery’s 27 years of victim service experiences include directing the Office of Victims’ Services for the Commission on Crime and Delinquency and directing a community-based victim service program. She has served as President of the Boards of NOVA and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration.

Judy Benitez has been executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) since 1993. She previously served as a victim advocate and program director at a prosecutor-based victim assistance and rape crisis program. She is a former reporter with experience at newspapers in New York, Virginia, and Louisiana. She holds a master’s degree in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Judy has been qualified as an expert witness in state court and continues to volunteer with her local rape crisis center, providing counseling and medical advocacy to victims and survivors.

Robert Franklin has worked on issues of sexual violence since the early 1990s when he was an advocate for a rape crisis center and coordinated a batter's intervention program at a domestic violence agency. As a college administrator, he presented a number of workshops on the state, regional, and national level on issues from alcohol abuse prevention, the male gender role, and why/how to involve men in sexual violence prevention. Currently, he is the male outreach coordinator at Virginia Department of Health continuing efforts to involve men in sexual violence prevention.

Roxanne Chinook (Wasco) M. Ed, B.F.A. is a tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation of Oregon. She is the mother of three daughters and a survivor of childhood incest, abuse, multiple rapes, domestic violence, and substance abuse. She has been diagnosed with Chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Since her last rape in 1982, she has survived alcohol and drug treatment centers, psychiatric hospitals, attempted suicides, abusive relationships to the removal of her children to finally be where she is today. In her own struggle to make sense of her life time of victimization and substance abuse, she began to research her inflictions in 1997.

Dawn Dougherty has been working to end violence against women since 1994. She is currently the court monitoring coordinator at WATCH in Minneapolis, MN, where she coordinates the National Association of Court Monitoring Programs. She previously served as the Director of Public Education and Outreach Services at Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and has worked as a consultant for the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence as well as many other organizations. She has presented nationally on creating survivor speaker bureaus, addressing teen dating violence in the gay population and creating court monitoring programs.

Christiane Hurt is the Acting Director of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP). She has been active in the anti-rape movement since 1991, when she first volunteered in a North Carolina rape crisis center. Ms. Hurt received her Master’s Degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a staff member of WCSAP since 1998. Ms. Hurt is a recognized trainer on organizational development and change, strategic planning, and board development. She has a special interest in nonprofit management within the unique rape crisis center environment.

Kimber is the Statewide Minority Outreach Coordinator for the CARe Initiative in Indiana, which provides sexual violence prevention education and technical assistance for minority communities in the state of Indiana. Kimber’s experiences as a survivor of sexual violence and as a therapist working with victims provide her with insight into barriers and challenges in providing culturally-relevant sexual violence prevention services. Kimber serves as the vice chair of the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and is the President of the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at Purdue University. Kimber uses the arts to express herself and is the mother of three daughters.

Kimber is the Statewide Minority Outreach Coordinator for the CARe Initiative in Indiana, which provides sexual violence prevention education and technical assistance for minority communities. Kimber serves as the vice chair of the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and is the President of the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at Purdue University. In 2003, she was awarded the Cesar Chavez “Si Se Puede” Award for her sexual violence prevention education work with the Migrant Farm Worker community. In 2006, the Migrant Clinician Network identified the CARe Initiative as the only program in the United States providing sexual violence prevention education to the Migrant Farm Worker community.

Lydia Guy is the Prevention Services Director for the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. She is responsible for the provision of training, technical assistance, and resource production for sexual assault service providers throughout the state as well as nationally. Her focus is the development and implementation of community mobilizing strategies specific to sexual violence. Lydia has been active in the anti-rape movement since 1992 and is a board member of National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. She is committed to providing training and producing publications on the issue of sexual violence that are relevant, culturally competent, and innovative.

Jennifer Long is the Director of the National Center for The Prosecution of Violence Against Women (NCPVAW) at the National District Attorneys Association. She travels across the country training prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and victim advocates and other allied professionals on issues related to violence against women. She provides technical assistance to criminal justice professionals throughout the nation and has served on a number of national committees dealing with sexual assault and domestic violence. Previously, she was an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she prosecuted cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault and child physical and sexual abuse.

Marta Sanchez, a self-taught visual artist and poet, was born and raised in the Republic of Panama. Her artwork reflects her experience as a survivor of sexual violence, and serves to break the silence and heal invisible wounds. She aims to simultaneously raise awareness, empower survivors, and encourage advocates. Sanchez, a former rape crisis center educator, is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Spelman College. At the law school, she served as Assistant Director for the Rape Crisis Advocacy Project and as Associate Features Editor for the Virginia Law Weekly. For more info, visit www.poetryandart.org.

Susan Chasson JD, MSN SANE-A is President of the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She is the sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator for the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Susan has helped hospitals and communities create programs for providing health care to victims of sexual violence in Utah for more than 15 years. She practices as a family nurse practitioner at the Utah Valley Family Medicine Center in Provo, Utah. She is a part time faculty member at Brigham Young University in both the College of Nursing and the J Reuben Clark Law School.

Neil Irvin is Men Can Stop Rape's National Director, Men of Strength Club. Mr. Irvin has been instrumental in mobilizing more than 700 Club members to participate in the positive prevention of men’s violence against women. Since 2001, he has grown the Men of Strength Club from one school in Washington, DC to 10. Starting in 2005, he oversaw the establishment of six Clubs throughout the state of California as part of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s My Strength Campaign. He is currently working with organizations in New York City and Ohio to implement new Men of Strength Clubs.

Alan Berkowitz is an independent consultant who helps colleges, universities, public health agencies and communities design programs that address health and social justice issues. Dr. Berkowitz has consulted for sexual assault coalitions and health departments nationally and served on the planning committee for CDC’s National Sexual Assault Conferences. He has developed model rape prevention programs and programs on men’s issues and is a co-founder of the social norms approach and its application to violence prevention.

Meg graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati with a concentration in Women's Studies. She worked for a domestic violence shelter for six years as the School/Community Education Advocate. She has been asked to present at various conferences across the United States on the topic of women with disabilities and domestic violence.

Christina Marín is an educator/performer/director/scholar whose work has been conducted on an international level in countries including Colombia, Ecuador, México, and South Africa. Her most recent directing project involved the docudrama, “Las Mujeres de Juárez,” by Rubén Amavizca Murúa, based on the brutal femicide taking place on the border between Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas. This piece has been produced in several venues in Phoenix, Arizona, the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada at Reno, and in Puerto Peñasco, México to benefit the Mexican Red Cross. In September 2005 she was honored by the AriZoni Commission with an award for Best Director for this production. She is thrilled to be working on Ms. Orta’s play, Braided Sorrow, because she believes it is an excellent example of how theatre can be used as a tool in Human Rights Education and how we can shed more light on the violations being perpetuated against women around the world.

Donna Dunn became the Executive Director of MNCASA in July, 2006. Prior to this, Ms. Dunn served as the program manager of the Sexual Violence Justice Institute, the criminal justice arm of the coalition. An activist in the movement to end violence against women, Ms. Dunn has over 20 years of experience in community based private non-profits. She was the director of Victim Services of Dodge/Fillmore/Olmsted Community Corrections and served as the Sexual Assault Program Director for the state of Minnesota.

Ms. Dunn has lectured on team collaboration and sexual assault response across the U.S. She believes that multidisciplinary collaboration brings together the community forces that need to be working in tandem to stop violence against women. She is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and Vanderbilt University.

Jenifer Markowitz was, until December 2004, the Coordinator of Victim Services for the DOVE Program (Developing Options for Violent Emergencies) in Akron, OH, overseeing forensic services for victims of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and elder abuse. She is currently a special consultant for DOVE, concentrating on issues of program development and clinical education. She is also the project director for a CDC-funded grant received by the International Association of Forensic Nurses focusing on sexual violence primary prevention and for an OVW-funded project on SANE sustainability for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Judy Benitez has been executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) since 1993. She previously served as a victim advocate and program director at a prosecutor-based victim assistance and rape crisis program. She is a former reporter with experience at newspapers in New York, Virginia, and Louisiana. She holds a master’s degree in counseling from Southeastern Louisiana University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University. Judy has been qualified as an expert witness in state court and continues to volunteer with her local rape crisis center, providing counseling and medical advocacy to victims and survivors.

Dr. Forero has a PhD in Clinical Social Work from NYU. She has 25 years experience in direct practice and is an expert in treating adult and children survivors of violent trauma in individual, group and family modalities. She is a trainer, supervisor and consultant to mental health and social service agencies and has presented on the subject of violent trauma at local, national and international professional conferences.

Lisa Brito Greene has been the youth outreach advocate and facilitator of STOP Abuse peer educators at the Women’s Resources of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, for five years and regional director of Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape’s youth activist network, Rallying Youth Organizers Together Against Rape, since its inception in 2003. Ms. Brito Greene has also worked for Urban League and in the New Jersey school system. She has been an educator, counselor, professional development director, and parent advocate in the school system, and has advocated for the needs of children and teen victims as well as students with alternative needs.

Mitru Ciarlante is a lifelong children’s advocate in the movements to end sexual and domestic violence. She started the children’s advocacy program at Women’s Resources of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in 1986, is the founder of the Children’s Advocates’ Task Force of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and youth organizer/consultant for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape’s youth activist network. As director of the Teen Victim Initiative at the National Center for Victims of Crime in Washington, DC, Mitru continues to work to advance rights and services for young victims, and to support advocates and allied professionals serving children and teens.

Faith Harkey is the developer of Gentle Yoga for Trauma Survivors, a yoga program designed to meet the special needs of survivors of abuse, crime, war, and other traumas. She is a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Having worked as a Sexual Assault Survivor Advocate in Pinellas County, FL, she is currently the Technical Assistance Coordinator for the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence in Tallahassee, FL.

Scott Hampton, Psy.D. has been working with batterers, sex offenders, victims, and children affected by violence for over 16 years. Currently, he is the executive director of Ending the Violence, and organization that provides educational classes to perpetrators of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes. He is also the founder of The Consexuality Project, a sexual violence prevention initiative and a past president of the National Supervised Network. Dr. Hamilton writes and speaks frequently on issues related to interpersonal violence having conducted hundreds of workshops in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

At NNEDV’s Safety Net: Safe & Strategic Technology Project, Cynthia Fraser provides training, analysis and technical assistance to address ways that technology safety, accessibility, and privacy issues impact victims of stalking and domestic and sexual violence. During 18 years working to end violence, she has staffed hotlines and shelters, organized community outreach with diverse communities, accompanied survivors through court and hospital visits, trained multi-disciplinary groups, and worked in national policy and research. Her lengthy experience in the impact of communication, surveillance, and information technology on sexual violence survivors and advocacy agencies includes six years at VAWnet (National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women).