Conference Presenters 2010

2010 CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

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KAREN ANDERSON Director, California Protective Parents Association; Mentor, Courageous Kids Network; DV/SA counselor; Featured in Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories	BEN ATHERTON-ZEMAN Author of Voices of Men - A One-Man Play Working to End Men's Violence Against Women. Warning: Performance includes scenes depicting graphic violence; *Nat. Organization for Men Against Sexism*	LUNDY BANCROFT Speaker, trainer, counselor, and activist on issues related to abuse and recovery. Author of the books: *The Batterer As Parent, Why Does* *He Do That?, and* *When Dad Hurts Mom*	RENEE BEEKER Creator and Director of the National Family Court Watch Project; President, Michigan NOW and Michigan NOW Foundation	LINDA BARNARD, PH.D.
	KAREN BORDERS, M.A.	JUDGE MIKE BRIGNER	DARA CARLIN, M.A. Holding a Masters degree in Marriage & Family Therapy, Dara is an independent Domestic Violence Survivor Advocate who has a 20+ year history of working in social service agencies, primarily in the area of child welfare.
NANCY ERICKSON, ESQ. Attorney, advocate, law professor, and M.A. forensic psychologist. Her thesis was on the risks of psychological testing leading to the misdiagnosis of battered women.	BARRY GOLDSTEIN, ESQ. NY attorney representing battered mothers; author of **Custody-Visitation Scandal Cases and Scared To Leave, Afraid To Stay**	ANNE GRANT, M.A., M.Div. Emmy Award winning TV writer and producer; Methodist Minister. As Exec. Dir. of Women’s Center of Rhode Island, she documented legal abuses at RI Family Court and DSS. Read her blogs at Custodyscam, Littlehostages.	MATTIE HERALD
			PAUL HOLDORF, ESQ. Retired New York corporate lawyer who later volunteered with Trial Lawyers Care to help 9/11 victims. In 2006, he joined the Family Court Watch Project as an observer in NJ and is now on the board of the NFCWP	KARIN D. HUFFER, M.S., M.F.T. Marriage and Family Licensed Therapist; ADA Court Advocate; Author of the highly acclaimed book, *Legal Abuse Syndrome*
EILEEN KING Regional Director for the Eastern Region of Justice for Children, based in downtown Washington, D.C.	TOBY KLEINMAN, ESQ. Founder, Center for Protection of Children; Associate Editor of the Journal of Child Custody	LIANE LEEDOM, M.D.	RITA SMITH Executive Director, *National Coalition Against Domestic Violence*	JANICE LEVINSON Protective Parent's Alliance
IRENE WEISER Founder and executive director of Stop Family Violence; Coordinator of Family Court Reform Coalition	MASSACHUSETTS PROTECTIVE MOTHERS FOR CUSTODIAL JUSTICE Dedicated to preventing re-victimization of battered women and children in legal intervention throughout Massachusetts and beyond. massmoms@yahoo.com	WENDY MURPHY, ESQ Author, *And Justice For Some; Founder and Director, Victim Advocacy and Research Group; Adjunct Professor, New England Law/Boston; Popular Legal Analyst, CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS, CBS, etc.*	PATTI JO NEWELL New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence	MARCIA PAPPAS President, NOW NYS Marcia has been called "the most visible activist in NYS."
KATHLEEN RUSSELL	LINDA MARIE SACKS	ANGELA SHELTON Hollywood actress, activist, and creator of the multi- award winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton	JOY SILBERG, PH.D. Coordinator of Trauma Disorder Services for Children at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, MD; past president of the Int'l Society for the Study of Dissociation; Ass. Editor for The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.	CONNIE VALENTINE California Protective Parents Association; Mentor, Courageous Kids Network; Featured in Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories and Family Court Crisis
GARLAND WALLER Boston U. Film Professor and producer of multi-award winning documentary Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts. Garland's newest compelling video is of interviews from the 2008 conference	URSULA WILLIAMS Community Services Director for Turning Point, a domestic violence residential and nonresidential program in Southern Indiana which serves 12 counties. She provides direct services to victims not desiring shelter as well as community connections.	KAREN WINNER, ESQ. Author of Divorced From Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Family Court Judges and Attorneys, the book that contained one of the first researched and documented reports of wide-scale family court abuse.	ROBIN YEAMANS, ESQ.	JOAN ZORZA, ESQ. Family law attorney, original co-author of the VAWA; Editor of Domestic Violence Report and Sexual Assault Report; National leader in the struggle to protect battered women for over 30 years.