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AMERICAN MOTHERS POLITICAL PARTY Nancy Carroll Claudine Dombrowski Randi James Melanie Smith Lorraine Tipton	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. Co-founder, Protective Mothers Alliance ...*	RENEE BEEKER Creator and Director of the National Family Court Watch Project; President, Michigan NOW and Michigan NOW Foundation ...	KAREN BORDERS, M.A. President of Borders, McLaughlin & Assoc. (www.bmaa.com), Karen is the co-creator of the Family Violence Risk Assessment program that is currently being used extensively in family law courts throughout Southern California ...
TYNIA CANADA, Public speaker, vocalist, and founder of , Tynia shares an uplifting message about maintaining hope and faith despite horrific obstacles. Her message is one of peace and empowerment. Inspirational Spirit of the Phoenix ...	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...	HOLLY COLLINS, ZACHARY COLLINS A battered woman betrayed by the family court system, Holly fled the United States to protect her children and was granted asylum in the Netherlands. The family are believed to be the first Americans to receive asylum in the European Union for domestic violence ...	REV. ANNE CURTAIN Teacher, attorney, Episcopal priest and Executive Director of Healing A Woman’s Soul. She organized free legal clinics through the Capital District Women’s Bar Assoc. and helped draft a successful grant for a domestic violence hotline ...	NANCY ERICKSON, J.D. 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, J.D. A nationally recognized domestic violence expert, speaker, writer and consultant. He is co-editor with Mo Therese Hannah of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE and CHILD CUSTODY and author of SCARED TO LEAVE AFRAID TO STAY ...	CHARLIE HOFHEIMER DIANE HOFHEIMER, KRISTIN HOFHEIMER Virginia law firm dedicated solely to educating and representing women in Virginia divorce and child custody cases ...	PAUL HOLDORF, J.D. 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., JASON HUFFER, CRYSTAL MORGAN-HUFFER Karin Huffer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, ADA Court Advocate, and author of the highly acclaimed book, *Legal Abuse Syndrome*	TOBY KLEINMAN, J.D. Associate Editor, Journal of Child Custody; Ms. Kleinman consults on issues involving complex child custody, abuse issues and domestic violence and has done so in over 25 states ...
MICHAEL LESHER, M.A., J.D. Writer/attorney who has devoted years to fighting for mothers who have lost custody of their children for trying to protect them from alleged sexual abuse.; co-author, From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts – and What Can Be Done about It ...	JANICE LEVINSON Janice along with Lundy Bancroft co-founded Protective Mother's Alliance International. PMA has acquired more than sixty five state chapter leaders in forty states and eight countries world wide ...	MASSACHUSETTS PROTECTIVE MOTHERS FOR CUSTODIAL JUSTICE, INC. Dedicated to preventing re-victimization of battered women and children in legal intervention throughout Massachusetts and beyond ...	WENDY MURPHY, J.D. Author, *And Justice For Some; Founder and Director,* Victim Advocacy and Research Group; Adjunct Professor, New England Law/Boston; Popular Legal Analyst, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ...	BARRY NOLAN Award winning journalist and communications professional; he is now co-producing a documentary with his wife Garland Waller on Holly Collins, the first American woman to be granted political asylum on grounds on domestic violence ...
ERICA OLSEN Technology Safety Specialist with Safety Net: the National Safe & Strategic Technology Project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence ...	ALAN ROSENFELD, J.D. Alan Rosenfeld has established a unique national law practice representing battered women and mothers of sexually abused children in high conflict custody cases, civil suits for damages by adult survivors ...	KATHLEEN RUSSELL President, Kathleen Russell Consulting. Kathleen's film, photography, and television projects with The Center for Judicial Excellence have brought the plight of battered mothers and their children to the forefront of the national media ...	ANGELA SHELTON Hollywood actress and creator of the multi- award winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton, Angela is also a successful activist, artist, writer, model, dancer, director, and superhero ...	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 Journal of Trauma and Dissociation ...
	.GARLAND WALLER Boston U. Film Professor and producer of multi-award winning documentary Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts. Garland's compelling video is of interviews from the 2008 conference ...	KAREN WINNER, J.D. Author of the acclaimed book, Divorced From Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Divorce Lawyers and Judges. For more than 23 years, Karen has been pioneering the struggle for government accountability in divorce courts ...	ROBIN YEAMANS, J.D. Prominent California divorce attorney and a leader in the movement to reform family courts for the past 15 years. Robin works with pro se litigants to help prepare their cases ...	JOAN ZORZA, J.D. Family law attorney, one of the co-authors of the original VAWA; Founding editor of Domestic Violence Report and Sexual Assault Report; National leader in the struggle to protect battered women for over 30 years ...
				DR. JOYCE BRAAK, M.D., CTS is a psychiatrist who has also practiced as a trauma surgeon, is currently President of the Institute for Research on Women’s Health as well as Director of that organization’s Human Rights and Women’s Health Project ...