DONNA ANDERSEN
Lovefraud.com
Teaching people to recognize and avoid sociopaths                     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

TYNIA CANADA
 Public speaker, vocalist, and founder of Inspirational Spirit of the Phoenix, Tynia

 shares an uplifting message about maintaining hope and faith despite horrific obstacles.  Her message is one of  peace and empowerment.
"The Victory Is yours, You Will Get Through This"                        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.
 breaking-the-silence@hotmail.com                                                          THE COURAGEOUS KIDS NETWORK
"We are a growing group of young people, whose childhood was shattered by biased and inhumane court rulings which forced us to live with our abusive parent, while restricting or sometimes completely eliminating contact with our loving and protective parent..." .  See also Breaking The Silence Children's Stories

DANICA DELGADO, MSW
and
LESLIE SANBORN Journeying Together: Developing Support and Community for Mothers Impacted by Domestic Violence                MYLAN L. DENERSTEIN
Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice, Office of Andrew Cuomo, New York State Attorney General; formerly served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.              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.

                                                             MARJORY D. FIELDS, ESQ.
Retired New York State Supreme Court Justice and retired family court judge.  Counsel to Beldock Levine Hoffman in NYC and International Family Law Chambers in London.  Fields works on public policy issues addressing legal remedies and protection for women victims of family violence, abuse, and sex crimes.

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 and Littlehostages.          PATRICIA JACKSON HATAMI
Psychotherapist and counselor since 1981, practicing in New York and Colorado.
Founder of Jackson Justice Center, Inc. in Denver.   Patricia also maintains an ongoing private practice under the title of Jackson Consulting, Inc.   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

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      ARIEL KING, MPH, MBA, PHD
Is the grateful mother of Ariana-Leilani, “The Little Ambassador” for the last 5.5 years, and an advocate for children and youth world-wide through the Ariel Foundation International www.ArielFoundation.org                          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      JAN LANGBEIN
Senior Policy Advisor, Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice:  

LIANE J. LEEDOM, M.D.  Author                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

                MILDRED D. MUHAMMAD

Executive Director,
After The Trauma, Inc.;
author, A Survivor's Journal; subject of the TruTV film,

"The D.C. Sniper's Wife, The Mildred Muhammad Story"               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.

SUSAN OMILION
My Avenging Angel:  Women Who Thrive after Abuse                         RITA SMITH
Executive Director,
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

                                                             MARCIA PAPPAS
President, NOW NYS
Marcia has been called "the most visible activist in NYS."                                                                     ANGELA SHELTON
Hollywood actress, activist,  and creator of the multi- award winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton

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.                   IRENE WEISER
Founder and executive director of Stop Family Violence;  Coordinator of Family Court Reform Coalition, comprised of advocates, organizations and professionals formed in response to the national crisis in the custody court system.                                                             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 was one of the first researched, documented reports of family court abuse.                                                      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.