Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:   A NATIONAL CRISIS

Fifth Annual Conference ..."Help, Hope, and Empowerment"
Friday
January 11th - Sunday January 13th, 2008      Clarion Hotel and Conference Center  
Albany, NY

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2008 CONFERENCE PRESENTERS


KAREN ANDERSON
Director, California Protective Parents Association; Mentor, Courageous Kids Network; DV/SA counselor; Featured in Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories.
SHARON ARAJI, PH.D.BEN ATHERTON-ZEMAN
Author of a one-man play, “Voices of Men”;  spokesperson, Nat. Organization for Men Against Sexism;  public speaker on issues of violence prevention
http://www.voicesofmen.org
LUNDY BANCROFT
Batterer intervention specialist; highly sought after speaker and trainer; author of The Batterer As Parent, and Why Does He Do That?, When Dad Hurts Mom
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RENEE BEEKER
Creator and Director of the National Family Court Watch Project; President, Michigan NOW and  Michigan NOW Foundation.
 DARA CARLIN, M.A.CLAUDINE DOMBROWSKIPATRICIA DUFF
Political organizer and activist; host of  political radio talk show, Duff Talk; active in the issue of judicial reform in New York and nationwide.
NANCY ERICKSON, ESQ.
NY Attorney and specialist in forensic custody evaluations involving battered women.
BARRY GOLDSTEIN, ESQ.
NY attorney; author of Custody-Visitation Scandal Cases and Scared To Leave, Afraid To Stay.
SETH GOLDSTEIN, ESQ.
Executive Dir., Child Abuse Forensic Institute, Napa, CA

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RITA HENLEY-JENSEN
Editor in Chief,
Women's eNews
REBECCA HENRY, ESQ.
Senior Staff Atty., ABA Commission on Domestic Violence
DIANE AND KRISTIN HOFHEIMER. ESQS
Hofheimer Ferrebee Law
Virginia Beach, VA
KARIN D. HUFFER,
M.S., M.F.T.
Marriage and Family Licensed Therapist;
Author of Legal Abuse Syndrome
TOVAH KASDIN, ESQ.
Program manager at Jewish Women International (JWI; responsible for the Legal Project, designed to help battered women understand and navigate the civil and criminal legal systems.
CASEY KEENETOBY KLEINMAN, ESQ.
Founder, Center for Protection of Children; Associate editor of the Journal of Child Custody.
ELIZABETH LIU, ESQ.
JOAN MEIER, ESQ.
Law professor, George Washington University Law School; founder, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP).
WENDY MURPHY, ESQ.
Founder and Director, Victim Advocacy and Research Group;
Adjunct Professor, New England School of Law; legal analyst, CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS, CBS, etc.
PATTI JO NEWELL
Dir. of Public Policy and Programs, New York State Coalition against Domestic Violence
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JUVA POINDEXTER 
DIANNE POST, ESQ.
Attorney with extensive experience on DV issues in the United States and internationally.
KATHLEEN RUSSELLTAMMY SEARLE
SHEILA SCOVILLETHOMAS SHANAHAN, ESQ.
NYC Civil Rights attorney

who represented Bridget Marks in family court, resulting in her children being returned to her after custody was switched to the children's father.
ANGELA SHELTON
Hollywood actress and creator of the multi- award winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton.
JOY SILBERG, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, the Leadership Council
GERI STAHLY, Ph.D.
Social Psychologist, Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, California State University
WENDY TITLEMAN
Author of Let My Children Go! A Mother's Journal;  founder of Kourts for Kids; national speaker on behalf of mothers against court ordered abuse.
CONNIE VALENTINE
President, CA Protective Parents Association; Mentor, Courageous Kids Network.
GARLAND WALLER
Boston U. Professor and producer of  Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts.
IRENE WEISERROBIN YEAMANS, ESQ
Prominent California family attorney, Certified Appellate Law Specialist,  expert in grassroots organization for family court reform.
ANNETTE ZENDERJOAN ZORZA, ESQ.
Writer, family law attorney, co-author of VAWA; leader in the struggle to protect battered women for over 30 years.



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