2011 Speakers
Stephen Adaway is the Unit Chief for the Human Smuggling and
Trafficking Unit at ICE Headquarters.
He and his staff provide programmatic and investigative oversight to ICE
offices and senior agency management on human smuggling and trafficking
issues. His unit also conducts
training for agency personnel and represents the agency at national and
international events. He began his
federal career in 1990 and was transferred to the Department of Homeland
Security/ICE in 2003. He has
served as an Instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and has
been honored with the Award for Public Service from the U.S. Attorney’s Office
for the Eastern District of Virginia.
He has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Marshall
University.
Kristen Anderson joined the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children (NCMEC) in 2005 and is currently the Director of the Case Analysis
Division. She provides daily
operational oversight of three analytical units: the Case Analysis Unit, the
Background Check Unit, and the Special Analysis Unit, which includes the areas
of Research, Attempted Abductions, and Sex Offender Tracking. Anderson is a frequent presenter and
trainer regarding sex offenders and related child-victimization issues across
the United States and internationally. She is a subject-matter expert on sex
offender issues and interacts frequently with national media. Ms. Anderson
holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington.
Kayte Anton is a Certified Domestic and Sexual Violence Response
Professional, and a Board Member for End Violence Against Women International.
She has previously worked as the Community Education and Prevention Specialist,
Public Relations Director, Sexual Assault Response Advocate Coordinator, and
Volunteer Coordinator for the YWCA Crisis Center in Enid, Oklahoma. She now
travels the country sharing her family’s story, and works as a marketing consultant
for non-profit organizations. Mrs. Anton graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma
State University with a degree in Mass Communications, and lives in Enid,
Oklahoma with her husband, Luke, and daughter, Ruby.
Deborah Augustine is the Program Manager for the Victim Witness
Assistance Program in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Washington,
D.C. Deborah ensures agency compliance with victims’ rights laws
by providing guidance, training, and support on victim witness issues to DEA’s
domestic and international offices; coordinates victim issues with federal,
state and local law enforcement agencies and works with national, state and
local crime victim and drug prevention organizations. She represents the DEA as
a planning partner with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
“Take 25” Campaign. She has
33 years of federal service and received numerous awards including the Attorney
General’s award and recognition for her efforts in providing awareness of meth
abuse and drug endangered children.
Shonnie R. Ball is the Staff Attorney for Safe Horizon’s
Anti-Trafficking Program in Brooklyn, NY where she provides legal services to
and criminal justice advocacy on behalf of survivors of human trafficking. As part of her work with Safe Horizon,
Shonnie is the chair of the Freedom Network USA’s Policy Committee and
collaborates with the Legal Services Subcommittee of the New York Anti-Trafficking
Network (NYATN). In addition,
Shonnie has extensive experience training and presenting on issues related to
immigration and human trafficking, as well as victims’ rights to both service
providers and law enforcement.
Shonnie has long been an advocate of immigration rights through her work
in public policy and direct services in New York City and Washington, DC.
Bill Bernstein, MS, LPC the is Deputy Director of Mosaic Family
Services, an agency serving refugee and immigrant communities in the North
Texas area. He serves as the
Chairperson of the Metroplex Refugee Network and twice served as Chairperson of
the Domestic Violence Subcommittee for the Dallas County Community Plan. Bill is a Licensed Professional
Counselor. He directs the program
at Mosaic that has served victims of human trafficking since 2001. Bill is a founding member of the North
Texas Anti-Trafficking Team, consisting of federal and local law enforcement,
prosecutors, and social service providers. Bill serves as co-chair of the Freedom Network USA, a
national coalition of agencies providing social services, legal services, and
counseling to survivors of human trafficking.
Challenges in
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking
Brandi Beyer, MCP, LPC, LBP is the clinical supervisor for
Northwest Domestic Crisis Services, Inc. and has been in the social services
field since 2001. Brandi provides
therapy and crisis intervention services to adult victims of domestic violence
and sexual assault and their children, as well as therapeutic services to
children who have experienced trauma.
Brandi is a member of the District 26 Multidisciplinary Child Abuse Team
and is the Coordinator for the Woodward Coordinated Community Response
Team. She has provided training to
professionals, paraprofessionals, and the general public in the state of
Oklahoma related to Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Working with
Children of Trauma, and Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Dynamics.
Mike Blonigen graduated from the University of Wyoming Law School
in 1983. He has served in various
capacities as a prosecutor in both the State of Wyoming and Federal Courts
since that time. In 2003 he became
district attorney and has served in that capacity since that time. He is a current and past member of the
Board of Directors of the National District Attorneys’ Association. Mike has lectured on numerous subjects
for prosecutors and law enforcement including cold case homicides, arson and
domestic violence related homicides.
larry Braunstein is a partner in the law firm of Braunstein &
Zuckerman, Esqs, in White Plains, New York. Since 1985 he has specialized in
litigation involving allegations of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and
abusive head trauma (shaken baby) cases. Larry regularly lectures both
nationally and internationally, to judges, attorneys, medical and mental health
professionals, law enforcement personnel (State and Federal), prosecutors
(State and Federal), and child protection service personnel. Since 1999 he has
served on the faculty of the New York City Police Department Sex Crimes and
Child Abuse Investigation Course.
Greg brown is the Chief Probation Officer for the Twentieth
Judicial District in Boulder, Colorado.
He has been working in the
corrections field for over 23 years.
During his career he has worked with both adult and juvenile populations
and in a variety of specialized programs.
Greg has extensive experience in the supervision, treatment and
management of adult and juvenile offenders, including domestic violence and sex
offenders and has developed specialized programs, problem solving courts,
standards, policies and best practices for the community based management of
high risk offenders. Greg has a
master’s degree in criminal justice administration and is a college instructor
and trainer for numerous organizations.
Irish Burch is a Senior Director at the Dallas Children’s
Advocacy Center. During the past 7 years, she has supervised the Forensic
Interview Program, conducted over 1000 forensic interviews of children and
teenagers, trained forensic interviewers statewide, and provided field related
case consultations for other professionals.
Florrie Burke, M.Ed., MA, LMFT is a consultant on Human
Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery to both governmental and non governmental
agencies. She is a founding member
and currently a Co-Chair of the Freedom Network, serves as the Coordinator of
the Freedom Network Training Institute and is on the Steering Committee of the
NY Anti-Trafficking Network.
Florrie does extensive training, speaking and consultation on Human
Trafficking issues, trauma and torture both nationally and
internationally. She
serves as an Expert Witness on cases of Human Trafficking. Ms. Burke received the National
Crime Victims Recognition Service Award from the Department of Justice, Office
for Victims of Crime, was honored by the Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice, by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of
Labor and was awarded the Annual Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award by the Freedom
Network USA.
Challenges in
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking; Good Victim-Bad Victim; Sexual
Assault as a Means of Control in Human Trafficking Cases
Laura G. Burstein is the Director of the Multicultural Legal Services
Program at Mosaic Family Services, where she provides legal representation in
both family and immigration law to immigrant victims of crimes such as human
trafficking and domestic violence.
Prior to joining Mosaic, she was a Staff Attorney for the University of
Michigan Law School at the Family Law Project, representing low-income victims
of domestic violence in family law matters. Laura is a member of the State Bars of Texas and
Michigan and is also a member of the North Texas Anti-Human Trafficking Task
Force, the Freedom Network, the Dallas Bar Association, the American Bar
Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ms. Burstein received her juris doctor
from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002.
Ryan Calvert is a felony prosecutor assigned to the Family
Violence Unit of the Denton County District Attorney’s Office. Upon his graduation from the Texas Tech
School of Law in 2002, Ryan immediately began work as a prosecutor with the
Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
In 2003, he accepted a position with the District Attorney’s Office in
Denton County. In his career, he
has tried more than 200 cases to juries as a prosecutor, including
approximately 60 involving domestic violence. In his current position Ryan is responsible for prosecuting
felony family violence offenses including repeat abusers, assaults involving
strangulation, deadly weapons, or serious bodily injury, murder, and capital
murder.
Randall Carroll retired as Chief of Police from the Bellingham
(Washington) Police Department in January 2008 after eight years of service. He
began serving the department in 1977. Over the course of his career, Mr.
Carroll worked locally, nationally and internationally on law enforcement
policy development, law enforcement cultural change and education. He is a member of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and was a member of its Executive
Committee for six years. Randall
currently serves as a consultant to the IACP, is a member of the IACP National
Law Enforcement Policy Center, and is senior faculty for the National
Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women. He is President of PROFECTUS,
LLC, a company that provides consultation and training to law enforcement
agencies, executives and community service agencies on issues related to
violence against women, and organizational culture and change.
Kendall Castello has been prosecuting crimes in Dallas County for
more than six years. He has
handled all types of cases ranging from capital murder to violent sexual
assaults. Kendall is currently
assigned to the child abuse division of the Dallas County District Attorney’s
Office. The child abuse division
handles all child abuse cases involving serious bodily injury or death.
Brooke Chiles has been working with Oklahoma Court Services and
the District Court of Cleveland County for almost eight years, providing
probation supervision and support services. She is the 21st Judicial District
Domestic Violence Court VAWA Grant Court Service Officer and provides probation
supervision and case management to the Cleveland County Domestic Violence
Court. Brooke is also the Coordinator for the Cleveland County Domestic
Violence Task Force and the Cleveland County Coordinated Community Response
Team.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 1; Coordinated Community Response Team: Part 2
Ateba CrockeR After surviving childhood rape and prostitution,
Ateba Crocker (CEO & Founder of Shoe Revolt) is channeling the past abuse
into an enterprise to fund the fight against domestic sex trafficking. Shoe Revolt is a for-profit company
aiming to stamp out domestic sex trafficking by creating a social enterprise to
produce a steady revenue stream through the sale of new and recycled shoes.
Amanda McReynolds Doran serves as Executive Director of
the Domestic Violence Program of North Central Oklahoma, providing a four
county area with services including counseling, group therapy, emergency
shelter, 24-hour hotline, sexual assault response services, advocacy, referral,
and more. She also serves on the Steering Committee for the Oklahoma Coalition
Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, as well as the Coalition’s
Legislative, Funding, and Prevention Committees. She is assisting the Oklahoma Coalition in creating a statewide
awareness campaign based on the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 1
Jeff Dort has been a prosecutor for 20 years, most in the
family violence arena. He works
for the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, and is currently in the Special
Operations Division. Jeff has
completed more than 90 jury trials, including domestic violence homicides, love
triangle homicides, DV-rape and sexual and physical crimes against women and
children. He teaches for various
local, national and international organizations including the U.S. Department
of Justice (DOJ), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the National
District Attorney’s Association (NDAA), and the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Cindy Dyer is the Vice President for Human Rights at Vital
Voices Global partnership. Prior
to joining Vital Voices in 2008, Cindy Dyer served as the Director of the
United States Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. She was
a specialized domestic and sexual violence prosecutor for 13 years and has
received numerous awards and recognition for her service to victims. Cindy
served for ten years as a member of the Public Policy Committee of the Texas
Council on Family Violence and she was a weekly hotline volunteer for nine
years at Genesis Women’s Shelter.
Jason Fedor has been a member of the law enforcement community
for 15 years. He is currently
assigned to the Dallas Field Office, Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program
(ECSAP), as a Digital Forensic Examiner.
Special Agent Fedor has been a member of the United States Secret
Service Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program since March of 2008.
Louis Felini is a Deployment supervisor with the Dallas Police
Department, and has over 22 years experience in law enforcement. He has
developed and implemented numerous multi-agency operations that have involved
local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Felini has been the
recipient of numerous awards and over 100 commendations throughout his career,
including the State of Texas Award for Valor. He graduated from Tarleton State
University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice.
Felini has worked as part of the US Secret Service’s Financial Crimes Task
Force and is an active speaker for the FBI’s Highway Serial Killers Initiative.
In April 2007, Sgt. Felini developed and implemented the Prostitute Diversion
Initiative (PDI), which would be the first law enforcement led program of its
kind in the country that would bring services directly to the environment where
street level prostitutes live and work.
The Dallas Police Department’s
Prostitute Diversion Initiative (PDI)
Martha Felini is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on
understanding cancer-related health disparities and exploring the influence of
environmental and genetic risk factors on health outcomes. As part of her
activities, she leads the evaluation analyses of the Prostitute Diversion
Initiative and directs its research arm. Dr. Felini obtained a Master’s
in Public Health at Texas A&M University before receiving a PhD in
Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She
currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the University of
North Texas Health Science Center’s School of Public Health; Graduate Professor
by independent appointment in the School of Biomedical Sciences; and Senior
Scholar with the Center for Community Health. Dr. Felini has received
multiple awards including the United States Public Health Traineeship Award.
The Dallas Police
Department’s Prostitute Diversion Initiative (PDI)
Birgit Fladager was elected to her first term as District Attorney
in 2006 and was recently re-elected for a second term. She has been a prosecutor in the
Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office since 1990 working her way up from
misdemeanor prosecutor to supervisor.
Prior to joining the DA’s Office, she served in the U.S. Navy as a JAGC
officer prosecuting court martial cases.
Susan French is a senior trial attorney with the Human
Trafficking Prosecution Unit in the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of
Justice. Ms. French has prosecuted
single and multiple victim cases including, among others, a sweatshop slavery
case involving over 250 victims, a domestic servitude case involving a young
Guatemalan woman who was forced to work and provide sex and a domestic
servitude case out of Ft. Worth, Texas, involving a Nigerian woman who worked
over eight years for a couple and was forced to submit to the male defendant’s
sexual demands.
Rus Funk, MSW is the co-founder and Executive Director of
MensWork: eliminating violence
against women, inc. He is also an
internationally recognized consultant and activist. Rus currently serves as Secretary of the Board of the
Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Secretary of the Board of the
National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence, and serves on the Global
Steering Committee of Mobilizing men for Violence Prevention. His latest book is “Reaching Men: Strategies for Preventing Sexist
Attitudes, Behaviors and Violence” (Jist Publications, 2006)
Michelle Garcia is the Director of the Stalking
Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime. Prior to joining the National Center,
she was a Program Specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice Office for
Victims of Crime. Michelle
has twenty years experience working with victims of stalking, sexual assault
and domestic violence and advocating for victims’ rights on a local, state, and
national level. Michelle has
trained internationally on various topics, including stalking, sexual assault,
domestic violence, dating violence, and dismantling oppression. She received her Master of Public
Policy degree from the University of Chicago.
Stalking and
Technology
Sheila Greene has been with the Dallas Police Department since
1985 and is assigned to the Family Violence Unit. At DPD, she is responsible for investigating all types of crimes
related to domestic violence. Detective Greene is also the Dallas Police
Liaison Officer to Family Violence Division at the Dallas County District
Attorney’s Office. She has
extensive experience developing and instructing training programs related to
personal safety, child safety, crime prevention, crime watch and assisting
neighborhoods with specific crime problems. She is a (SAFVIC) Sexual Assault
& Family Violence Investigators Course Instructor and teaches throughout
the State of Texas.
Larry Hallmark is a veteran with 23 years of law enforcement
experience, 13 of those years as a detective with the Grapevine Police
Department. During that time
Lieutenant Hallmark spent ten years in the Crimes Against Persons Unit, seven
of those as the Major Case Detective.
Lieutenant Hallmark now serves in Uniform Operations, as the Watch
Commander for the Third Watch.
David Harris has been a member of the Stanislaus County District
Attorney’s Office since 1991.
He is currently assigned as a Chief Deputy District Attorney supervising
the Trial Unit and prosecutions involving consumer fraud, real estate fraud and
environmental cases. Dave is also
responsible for public corruption cases and “Brady” issues in the office.
Case Study: The
Laci Peterson Case Revisited
Rosemary Hartmann is an Adjudications Officer (Policy) with the Office
of Policy and Strategy within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Homeland Security.
Ms. Hartmann manages policy development and implementation of
immigration relief for victims of human trafficking, the T and U nonimmigrant
status, and the Special Immigrant Juvenile status for abused, abandoned and
neglected immigrant minors. Prior
to joining USCIS, Ms. Hartmann worked with the advocacy community at the
Immigrant Women Program of Legal Momentum. Ms. Hartmann holds a J.D. from The Catholic University of
America Columbus School of Law, Washington, DC and a B.A. in Government and
Women’s Studies from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
Human Trafficking:
Collaboration for a Victim Centered Response
Tara Henry is a family nurse practitioner specialized in the
area of forensic nursing. For the past 13 years she has provided nursing care
to patients affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse.
Tara is the only forensic nurse in Alaska who performs postmortem sexual
assault examinations on suspected sex-related homicide victims. She provides
expert witness testimony in courts regarding forensic nursing, strangulation,
sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex-related homicide. In addition, Tara
works in the emergency department as a nurse practitioner, and she travels
throughout Alaska providing domestic violence and sexual assault training and
consultation services for health care agencies, law enforcement, and attorneys.
Krista Hoffman is a Criminal Justice Specialist for the
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) in Enola, Pennsylvania. Krista has
been in the field of victims’ advocacy for 10 years. In her current role she is
responsible for organizing/facilitating trainings, providing technical
assistance, and developing resources for the criminal justice field. She is
currently working on projects that focus on human trafficking for commercial
sexual abuse, premeditation and reframing in non-stranger sexual assault, and
sexual violence and technology. Krista graduated from West Chester University
with a degree in history and received a Master’s degree in Applied Research
from Shippensburg University.
Premeditation and
Re-Framing in Non-Stranger Sexual Assault; Techonolgy, Oppressive Behaviors,
and the Normalization of Victimization
Peggy Hoffman started the PRIDE Court program in January, 2009 in
response to the vast number of women charged with misdemeanor prostitution who
are in need of a safe alternative to continually returning to jail for
committing the offense of prostitution.
She works closely with the PDI and NLO and accepts the women charged
with Class A and B misdemeanors into her program who were arrested during the
PDI initiative. In January, 2009,
Judge Hoffman applied for and received a
federal grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the amount of
$350,000 to supplement two full time positions in the PRIDE Court which will
enable the court to grow and have approximately 35 – 40 women in the program at
a time.
Helping Prostitutes
Recover Through the Pride and Star Diversion Courts
Kristen Howell is currently Director of Development at Genesis
Women’s Shelter in Dallas, TX. As
a clinical social worker, she has served for 10 years at Genesis in various
capacities, including shelter therapist, outreach therapist, and Director of
Clinical and Professional Services. She is now part of the fund raising team at
Genesis that raises critical funding and awareness about the problem of
domestic violence and the full-service response at Genesis. Kristen speaks frequently on issues
related to women in domestic violence relationships. Kristen holds a B.A. in
social work from Baylor University and a MSW from the University of North
Carolina.
Advocates and
Prosecutors; Getting Her from Going to Gone
Brian Killacky is a Supervisor within the Investigations Bureau of
the Cook County States Attorney Office (CCSAO) . The units under his
responsibility include the Capital Murder, DNA, Post Conviction/Wrongful
Conviction, the Grand Jury and Felony review. Brian has worked eight years for the CCSAO and twenty seven
years for the Chicago Police Department. He has been a consultant for the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for 22
years. Brian has extensive
investigative experience in cold case, homicide, and violent crime
investigations.
John Kitzinger is currently the Supervisory Special Agent of the
Philadelphia Division FBI Violent Crimes Task Force. John has served as a
special agent with the FBI for almost 16 years and has been assigned to Violent
Crime, Organized Crime, and Counterterrorism matters. Prior to joining the FBI,
John was a member of the Philadelphia Police Department for seven years. John graduated from
Villanova University with a degree in sociology and received a Master’s degree
in Criminal Justice from St. Joseph’s University.
Premeditation and
Re-Framing in Non-Stranger Sexual Assault
Susan E. Kossler, a supervisory special agent, has been an FBI Agent
for over 20 years. She is assigned
to the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Behavioral
Analysis Unit 2 (BAU-2). BAU-2
provides behaviorally based analysis of violent crimes against adults, such as
serial murder, serial sexual assault, intimate partner homicides, “no body”
homicides, equivocal deaths and unusual, behavior-rich single homicides. In addition to consulting on active
cases, BAU-2 provides training to local, state, and federal law enforcement
officials throughout the United States and internationally. BAU-2 also conducts research: Current research topics include serial
murder, sexual murder, and false allegation cases.
Heather Koval is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Board Approved
Supervisor and started working with victims of violent crime at a local shelter
eight years ago. Heather joined
the Irving Police Department in October 2003 as a Domestic Violence
Counselor. In 2010 Heather was
promoted to be the Supervisor of the Victim Services Unit at the Irving Police
Department. She supervises staff
and interns in providing services to victims of violent crime.
Lena Levario is the presiding judge of the 204th Judicial District Court of
Dallas County Texas. This court
hears felony criminal cases. In
1993, she became the first Latina judge in the history of Dallas County,
appointed by then Governor Ann Richards.
Judge Levario is the presiding judge of STAR Court, wherein she
supervises a group of about 35 women on probation for prostitution. The participants have a history of drug
abuse and mental illness. She has
implemented evidence- based programs that are proven to reduce recidivism,
thereby providing the participants a meaningful opportunity to change their
lives.
Helping Prostitutes Recover Through
the Pride and Star Diversion Courts
Tania Loenneker has been involved in the Violence Against Women
movement for more than 12 years.
Tania currently serves as the Advocacy Program Manager of the Family
Violence Divison at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. She is charged with supervising 15
victim advocates in the Protective Order, misdemeanor and felony sections; with
developing policies and protocols; and with assisting in administrating
multiple state and federal grant projects that fund close to 50% of the
division staff.
Effective Victim
Advocacy within the Criminal Justice System; Identifying the Predominate
Aggressor
Jennifer Gentile Long serves as the Director of AEquitas: The Prosecutors Resource
on Violence Against Women. As
Director, she supervises, provides and participates in training events, resource
development, case consultation and the delivery of technical assistance to
prosecutors and allied professionals.
Jon H. Lumbley is a 25-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department
having served since 1985. Jon has
been assigned to the Family Violence Unit since 1997. His primary responsibility is to investigate adult family
violence offenses. He is a certified instructor through the Texas Commission on
Law Enforcement Standards and Education for the Dallas Police Department and he
has his Master Peace Officer License.
Detective Lumbley is a certified Sexual Assault Family Violence (SAFVIC)
Instructor and qualified teacher for the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center on domestic violence. He
teaches across the State of Texas and across the nation to a variety of
professionals. Jon is also a
member of the Dallas Area Crisis Response Team.
Gary J. Margolis is a Managing Partner with the professional services
firm Margolis Healy & Associates, LLC which focuses on higher education
safety and security. He has more than a decade of experience in higher
education public safety as the Chief of Police at the University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College from 1998 through 2009. Dr. Margolis holds a Research Associate Professor
appointment in the University of Vermont College of Education, and is a
founding faculty member of the IACP National Law Enforcement Leadership
Institute on Violence Against Women funded by the US Department of Justice,
Office on Violence Against Women. He is often called upon by the US Department
of Justice and US Department of Homeland Security as a campus security expert,
and is a speaker, consultant, educator, expert witness, and trainer on campus
safety and security; security technology application; emergency response &
recovery planning; and preventing violence against women crimes on campuses.
Jenifer Markowitz is the Medical Advisor for AEquitas: The
Prosecutor’s Resource on Violence Against Women. As Medical Advisor, Dr. Markowitz presents on a variety of
forensic-related topics for military and civilian audiences, including
medical-forensic examinations, strangulation, drug-and alcohol-facilitated
sexual assault, and expert witness testimony. She also conducts research; provides expert testimony, case
consultation, and technical assistance; and develops training materials,
resources, and publications. In addition to her work with AEquitas, she is the
Editor of Forensic Health Online, a site dedicated to forensic clinical
education (www.forensichealth.com), and President-Elect of the International
Association of Forensic Nurses.
Errin Martin graduated from Texas Tech University in 1998 and
Texas Tech University School of Law in 2001. After clerking for U.S. District Judge Paul Brown, Errin was
an associate at Thompson & Knight, LLP in Dallas. Errin returned to Judge Brown’s chambers to serve as his
career law clerk until she became a Special Assistant United States Attorney in
the Eastern District of Texas in 2007 focusing on Project Safe Neighborhood and
Project Safe Childhood cases. In
2008, Errin joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of
Texas in Dallas, where she is a member of the Major Fraud/White Collar/Public
Corruption section and is the Civil Rights and Human Rights coordinator for the
Northern District of Texas involved in the prosecution of human trafficking and
domestic servitude cases.
Marie Martinez is the Section Chief of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Victim Assistance Program, where she oversees human trafficking,
child exploitation, human rights abuse, and white collar crime victim
initiatives. She has been working
in the field of victimology for over ten years. She provides policy guidance, training, and technical
assistance to ICE agents and Victim Assistance Coordinators throughout the
United States and conducts extensive training and case consultations for
investigators and other criminal justice professionals domestically and
internationally. Prior to Federal service, Marie practiced social work in the
field of sexual and family violence.
She holds a Master’s degree in social work from the University of
Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Bucknell University.
Good Victim-Bad
Victim; Human Trafficking: Collaboration for a Victim Centered Response
Marcee Metzger has been working to end violence against women and
children since 1976. She began as an undergraduate at University of Nebraska
Lincoln as a volunteer on the Rape
Crisis Line. She helped start the Spouse Abuse Crisis Line in Lincoln. She
continued as Coordinator of the University of Nebraska’s Women’s Resource
Center and then as a Graduate Assistant Counseling on Interpersonal Violence
Issues. Marcee became the Executive Director at Voices of Hope, formerly the
Rape/ Spouse Abuse Crisis Center when it incorporated as an independent agency
in 1989. She continues to hold this position.
Shannon Meyer is a Victim Specialist for the F.B.I. in Seattle, WA
where she also serves as a member of the Crisis Negotiation Team. Dr. Meyer is considered a subject
matter expert and teaches regularly to national and international audiences on
issues related to violence and victimization, risk assessment, forensic
psychology, and hostage negotiation.
Dr. Meyer has held faculty positions at two universities, has conducted
extensive research, and has published on matters related to violence and
victimization. Dr. Meyer has
advanced clinical training and expertise in the evaluation and treatment of
domestic violence offenders, and has treated several thousand court-mandated
abusers. Dr. Meyer has been declared an expert witness and has testified on matters related to
physical and sexual violence against intimate partners, including domestic
homicide. Dr. Meyer’s current work
includes best practices in the criminal justice system response to violence
against women, and the study of law enforcement deaths on domestic violence
calls for service.
“Just the Facts
Ma’am”
Wynne Mittledorf Shaw earned a Bachelor’s degree in
Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Education in
Counseling from the University of North Texas. She has been a licensed professional counselor for 13 years
and she is also a board-approved LPC supervisor. Wynne started her career working in a domestic violence
shelter. She has been with the
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center for 10 years, providing individual and group
therapy for child abuse victims and their non-offending
parents/caregivers. She also
supervises interns and staff therapists.
Robert Morton works at the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Crimes
against Adults as a Supervisory Special Agent, and provides behavioral analysis
on unusual, bizarre and repetitive murders, serial murders and other crimes
against adults.
Jequita H. Napoli has served as a Special Judge for the Cleveland
County District Court in Norman, Oklahoma since 1996. Judge Napoli’s judicial assignments include civil protective
orders, felony magistrate and misdemeanor charges of domestic violence, violation
of protective orders, stalking and harassment, among others. She served as Municipal Judge in the
City of Norman Municipal Court from 1987 to 1996 and was in private practice of
law from 1982 until 1996. Judge
Napoli has served in various capacities for the American and Oklahoma Bar
Associations, and the National Conference and Oklahoma Board of Bar
Examiners. Judge Napoli
received her Bachelor of Business Administration with Distinction from the
University of Oklahoma and her Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma Law
School.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 2
Neil Nelson of the St. Paul (MN) Police Department is a 33-year
veteran of that department, an experienced homicide investigator and a
nationally recognized law enforcement trainer. He has taught courses on
electronically recorded interviews and the RIP Interviewing Technique to
departments and agencies in states including, but not limited to, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland.
Evan M. Nicholas, Supervisory Special Agent, is assigned to the Crimes
Against Children Unit at FBI HQ in Washington, DC. He is the program manager for the FBI’s Innocence Lost
National Initiative, which is the FBI lead program that rescues victims of
sexual exploitation and targets the individuals involved in these crimes. From 2003 to 2010 he served as a
Special Agent in the New York Field Office and specialized in investigating
crimes against children matters, including child abductions, the sexual
exploitation of children, child prostitution and child pornography cases. Prior to joining the Agency, Nicholas
was a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service.
Alfred Nuñez, a 19-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department
is currently assigned to the Vice Unit of the Strategic Deployment Bureau. Sgt. Nunez is responsible for
supervising detectives in their investigations of offenses as they relate to
prostitution, alcohol, gambling, public decency and human trafficking. He
assists in these investigations by conducting interviews, surveillance and
intelligence gathering on targets of investigation as well as reviewing and
approving all prosecution filings and search warrants executed by assigned
detectives.
Vidal Olivarez is a 21-year veteran of the Dallas Police
Department. He is currently assigned to the Sex Offender Apprehension
Program (SOAP) where he investigates the compliance requirements of the Texas
sex offender registration law. In this position he has used innovative
investigative techniques leading to the successful prosecution of many non-compliant
sex offenders. In 1995, he was recognized in Washington D.C. by the
National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) and selected as one of
NAPO’s Top Cops after his direct involvement in the arrest of a suspect who
abducted and sexually abused a six year old girl. The child was successfully
recovered within an hour of her abduction due to the investigative work of
Detective Olivarez and his partner.
John Palmer is a 24-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. He has been a DPD Homicide detective
for 12 years, and also a detective in the Felony Assault Unit. John has been a guest speaker at the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center – Glynco on the topic of Advanced
Interview and Interrogation.
Detecive Palmer has served as a past member on the National Advisory
Board of the FBI Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. John is a regular instructor at the
Dallas Police Department In-service Academy teaching Interview and Interrogation, and Intermediate Crime
Scene Search.
Case Study: The
Murder of Alma Arenas-Perez
Paul Park is a 19-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department
where he is currently assigned as a detective in the Vice Unit. Prior to this he was Senior Corporal in
the Patrol Bureau where he served as a Field Training Officer. He is responsible for investigating
crimes involving Prostitution, Alcohol, Gambling, and Indecency Offenses. Detective Paul’s primary focus is to
investigate crimes involving street prostitution, Internet/advertised
prostitution and human trafficking.
He earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven.
Case Study:
Prostitution and Human Trafficking
Billy Parker, a Detective Sergeant, has been a member of the
Woodward, Oklahoma Police Department since 1998. He was promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant in
2005. Sgt. Parker is the
department’s domestic crisis liaison and a founding member of the Woodward
County Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Team. In both 2001 and 2002, the Northwest Domestic Crisis Shelter
named him the Police Officer of the Year.
Sgt. Parker is a CLEET certified instructor and a reserve police officer
academy coordinator. He has
achieved the mastery level certificate for cognitive graphic forensic
interviews and in 2009 he was awarded the law enforcement award for Excellence
in Action against Domestic Violence.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 1
Thomas Peterson
Challenges in
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault as a Means of Control
in Human Trafficking Cases
John Pettus is currently a Senior Forensic Examiner for the FBI
at the North Texas Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory. Prior to working at the NTRCFL, Mr.
Pettus served as a police officer for the Richardson, Texas Police Department
for 16 years. Mr. Pettus is
certified to conduct forensic examinations on Windows and Macintosh computers,
cell phones and digital cameras.
Mr. Pettus is the Training Coordinator for the NTRCFL and is a graduate
of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Cell Phone
Forensics
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P is
Past-President of the International Association of Forensic Nurses and has
served on the IAFN Board since 2006.
Jennifer is presently Manager of the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program at
Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, and previously served for 12 years as
the Director of the State of NH Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program. She has
23 years nursing experience, and is an educator and expert in the areas of
child and adult sexual assault, as well as domestic violence, is a contributing
author for several Attorney General protocols in New Hampshire, is published in
the Journal of Emergency Nursing and the Journal of Forensic Nursing and is an
item-writer for both the adult and pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner
certification programs through the IAFN.
SANE Program
Sustainability; Strangulation
Alan L. Podawiltz, DO, MS, FAPA, is the Chair of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He is also Chair of the Department of
Psychiatry at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Podawiltz is currently serving as
vice chair of the board of directors for the State of Texas Joint Admission
Medical Program. Since joining TCOM in 2003 as an interim chair in the
Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Podawiltz has implemented a solid research
component in the department of psychiatry, implemented a psychiatric residency
program at John Peter Smith Hospital and ultimately created a strong,
profitable, service-oriented psychiatry department.
Prostitutes and
Mental Health Considerations
Kimberly S. Quesinberry is assigned to the FBI’s
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Behavioral Analysis Unit 2
(BAU-2). BAU-2 provides behaviorally
based analysis of violent crimes against adults, including serial murder,
serial sexual assault, intimate partner homicides, “no body” homicides,
equivocal deaths, and single homicides with unusual behavior. BAU-2’s services include crime scene
assessment; unknown offender characteristics (profiles); recommendations for
major case management; and investigative, interview, and prosecutorial
strategies. In addition to
consulting on active cases, BAU-2 provides training to local, state, and federal
law enforcement officials throughout the United States and
internationally.
John Raleigh is currently assigned to the FBI’s Violent Criminal
Apprehension Program (ViCAP) as a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA). He has been a member of the FBI
for more than 15 years. Prior to being assigned to ViCAP, John
worked in the FBI Miami division where he spent the majority of his time
working criminal matters in a task force comprised of local, state and federal
law enforcement personnel. Agent
Raleigh has also been assigned to the
Fayetteville, North Carolina FBI office where he worked all Federal
criminal matters with local, state and federal law enforcement partners.
Aaron Setliff is the director of public policy for the Texas
Council on Family Violence (TCFV) in Austin where he is responsible for the
agency’s legislative initiatives at the Texas capitol. During the recent 81st legislative
session, he led the effort that resulted in the legislature’s passing and
signing into law the entire TCFV agenda, as well as a number of other
legislative priorities. He
coordinates the programmatic interface between coalition partners and the state
funders and provides statewide domestic violence coordination, as well as
supervision of nine policy team members.
Jeff Shaffer is a Group Leader
in the Secret Service’s North Texas Electronic Crimes Task Force and serves as
the Digital Forensics Lab Manager.
He has been involved in electronic crimes for 12 of his 20 years with
the Secret Service. Agent Shaffer specializes in telecommunications and mobile
device forensics and helped develop curriculum for the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center for Mobile Device Forensics. Special Agent Shaffer has taught numerous classes on
telecommunications, computer and cell phone forensics and has helped draft
legislation relating to telecommunications crime in Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas.
Computer/Cell Phone
Forensics
Matt Shovlin has been the Chief of the Family Violence Unit at
the Denton County Texas Criminal District Attorney’s Office for the last eight
years. He has been a prosecutor in
that office for 13 years. Matt is
a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law.
Case Study: The
Murder of the Pregnant Girlfriend
Mike Steinberg is currently assigned as the Investigations Sergeant
with the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office in Wyoming. His responsibilities include assigning all incoming cases to
Investigators, tracking their progress, and providing assistance when needed. He is also the evidence custodian for
the Department and is responsible for maintaining the property/evidence
room. In addition to his other
duties, Mike is also responsible for training Investigators and Deputies in
crime scene management and report writing.
Case Study: Sexual
Assault in the Age of Cyberspace: The Craigslist Rape Plot
B.J. Spamer has worked as an Intelligence Analyst for the Kansas
Bureau of Investigation and the Kansas City (Missouri) Police Department. She joined the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in 2001 and spent eight years in the
NCMEC cold case unit working on cases of long-term missing children and
unidentified remains. Ms. Spamer
managed and administered the NCMEC DNA collection program in conjunction with
the University of North Texas from 2004 to 2010. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral and Social
Science from the University of Maryland and a Master of Forensic Science degree
from George Washington University.
Mike Sullivan is a thirty-year veteran of law enforcement and
holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law Enforcement Administration from Western
Illinois University. He currently is assigned as the Deputy Chief of the
Investigations Division for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and the
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commander. Mike is the
author of two books, Safety Monitor and Online Predators, which focus on the
use of computers to victimize children.
Deputy Chief Sullivan has received numerous awards for his work
including the Medal of Valor, the Meritorious Service Medal, and The Illinois
Bar Association’s Law Enforcement Official of the Year.
Jonathan Sundermeier has 23 years with the Lincoln,
NE Police Department and commands the Criminal Investigations Team, including
responsibility for Domestic Violence coordination, sexual assault
investigation, and threat management.
He was a member of the Sexual Assault Response Audit Team and conducts
training on sexual assaults, threat management, and statement analysis.
Jim Tanner has 40 years experience in community corrections. He
obtained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Social Psychology from the University of
Illinois, specializing in Phenomenology and Criminology. Dr. Tanner serves as
the computer forensic examiner for Probation in the 20th Judicial District of
Colorado and has examined more than 1,300 sex offenders computers. He is
nationally recognized as a leader in the management of sex offenders’
computers. He is responsible for the creation of Field Search, a forensic
software application in use in the US, Canada, U.K. and Australia. He also
developed the Structured Sex Offender Treatment Review (SSOTR) in use
nationally to monitor sex offenders’ behavior.
Detecting
Deception; Finding You in a Digital World; Living with the Memories; Working
with Resistive Clients
Sandra Thompson is the Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Specialist
with the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council where she assists in the
development of Coordinated Community Response Teams throughout the state of Oklahoma. Within three years, 20 Coordinated Community Response Teams
have been established to increase victim safety and offender
accountability. Sandra has worked
in the violence against women field for almost two decades. Her past experience includes five years as Executive Director of a
transitional living program in Canada, ten years as Shelter Manager for
Help-In-Crisis in Tahlequah, and two years in Oklahoma City with the YWCA as
Shelter Operations Manager and then Director of Volunteer Outreach. Sandra is a certified Domestic and
Sexual Violence Response Professional.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 1; Coordinated Community Response Team: Part 2
Zachary Thompson currently serves as Director of Dallas County Health
and Human Services. As Director,
he is responsible for running the day-to-day operations of more than 15
programs and 300+ employees who work to ensure that the 2.2 million residents
of Dallas County remain safe and healthy.
Zachary also serves on the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority Board
of Directors and is a member of the Site Based Decision Making Committee of the
Martin L. King Jr. Learning Center. Mr. Thompson received his Associate Degree
of Arts from El Centro College in Dallas, TX, a Bachelor of Science in Social
Work (BSW) from the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, TX, a Master
of Arts from Amber University in Garland, TX., and has been an adjunct
Professor at Eastfield Community College for more than 15 years.
Mike Troyanski is currently the regional chief for the Sex Offender
Investigations Branch overseeing OK, TX, NM, and AZ. This position focuses USMS investigative efforts to assist
state/local/tribal authorities in apprehending and prosecuting non compliant
registered sex offenders. Prior to
this position he has served in various capacities with the USMS in Texas,
Wyoming, Missouri, and Illinois.
He is a former police officer in Illinois and served in the U.S. Army.
Sex Offender
Tracking Resources
Sarah Tucker is a Technology Safety
Specialist with Safety Net: the National Safe & Strategic Technology
Project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV). Through training, technical assistance,
and policy advocacy, she addresses all forms of technology that impact
survivors of stalking, sexual violence and domestic violence. Sarah has worked
to end domestic violence at the local, state, national, and international
levels for over 10 years. She holds a Bachelors of Arts from Mount Saint Mary'
has more than fifteen years of experience providing computer literacy training.
Maintaining Safety
in a Digital World; Social Networking Privacy
Jessica Villalva obtained her law degree from St. Mary’s University
School of Law in San Antonio, Texas in 2006, and is admitted to the practice of
law in both Texas and Oklahoma.
She began her legal career in 2007 as an Assistant District Attorney
(ADA) in the 12th Judicial District in Mayes County Oklahoma. Jessica has had the opportunity to
assist the Mayes County community in developing their first-ever domestic
violence Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT), and serves as one of its
members. She specializes in
evidence-based prosecution of domestic violence cases and recently received the
State of Oklahoma 2010 award for Prosecutor of the Year in Action Against Domestic
Violence. In addition, Jessica
handles all of the sexual assault and child abuse cases for her county and has
been able to facilitate communication among all of the disciplines through the
use of a CCRT approach.
Coordinated
Community Response Team: Part 2
Bobbie Villareal joined the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office
as Chief of the Family Violence Division in October of 2007. In her role, Villareal supervises 19 attorneys, 10 investigators, 16 victim
advocates and 11 support staff.
She has been practicing law since 1991 and specializes in family
violence, child abuse, criminal street gang and juvenile law. A native of El Paso, Texas, Ms.
Villareal earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University
in Waco, Texas, and a Juris Doctorate from the Baylor University School of
Law. She is a member of the Texas
State Bar, Texas District and County Attorneys Association, National District
Attorneys Association, Texas Council on Family Violence Public Policy
Committee, NCTCOG Criminal Justice Policy Development Committee and the 2008
Steering Committee for SAFVIC (Sexual Assault Family Violence Investigators
Course).
Oh No! My Case is
Really Going to Trial
Marissa L. Wallace, a licensed private investigator, is the owner and
operator of Wallace Investigations.
She is the Outreach Investigator for Mosaic Family Services in Dallas,
assigned to human trafficking cases from the Mosaic and National Hotlines. In addition, she assists local, state
and federal law enforcement agencies with preliminary investigations into human
trafficking. Ms. Wallace has
worked as a police officer in the Dallas Police Department, rising to the rank
of Sr. Corporal. At the DPD, she worked as a deployment officer and on special
assignment with the Vice and Criminal Intelligence Units. She is a member of
the North Texas Anti-Trafficking Team and the Texas Association of Licensed
Investigators.
Challenges in
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking
John F. Wilkinson is an Attorney Advisor with AEquitas: The
Prosecutors’ Resource on Violence Against Women. As an Attorney Advisor, he presents on trial strategy, legal
analysis and policy, and ethical issues related to violence against women at
the local, state, and national level.
John conducts research; develops training materials, resources, and publications;
and provides case consultation and technical assistance for prosecutors and
allied professionals.