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. | RENEE BEEKER Creator and Director of the National Family Court Watch Project; President, Michigan NOW and Michigan NOW Foundation. |
| | DARA CARLIN, M.A. | CLAUDINE DOMBROWSKI | PATRICIA 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. | 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 KEENE | TOBY 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. | JUVA POINDEXTER | |
DIANNE POST, ESQ. Attorney with extensive experience on DV issues in the United States and internationally. | KATHLEEN RUSSELL | TAMMY SEARLE
| SHEILA SCOVILLE | THOMAS 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 WEISER | ROBIN YEAMANS, ESQ Prominent California family attorney, Certified Appellate Law Specialist, expert in grassroots organization for family court reform. | ANNETTE ZENDER | JOAN ZORZA, ESQ. Writer, family law attorney, co-author of VAWA; leader in the struggle to protect battered women for over 30 years. |