Linda Seabrook is General Counsel at Futures Without Violence, where she leads a number of programs aimed at reducing violence against women and children. Linda began her legal career as an Assistant Solicitor in Charleston, SC, where she was the lead prosecutor for intimate partner offenses and enjoyed a 100% conviction rate at trial. During her tenure, she was featured in the Post & Courier and USA Today for a prosecution initiative she created to charge an additional charge of unlawful conduct toward a child when abusers perpetrated an act of domestic violence in close proximity to their children. Media includes: NPR.

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. Her book, Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. She is also a co-author of the casebook Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials and the author of numerous articles on sexual violence and domestic violence. Media includes: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, CBS, CNN.

Dr. Carolyn M. West is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and affiliate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is a nationally recognized Black feminist scholar who investigates gender-based violence in the lives of African American women, with a focus on domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. Dr. West has authored more than 70 academic publications and is editor/contributor of "Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue" (Routledge, 2002) (winner of the American Psychological Association’s Carolyn Payton Early Career Award). She has taught courses on Sex Crimes and Sexual Violence, Family Violence, and the Psychology of Black Women for more than 30 years. Extensive media experience.

Justine Andronici is a feminist lawyer and victim’s rights and women’s rights advocate. Her work focuses on gender-based violence, discrimination, and progressive politics. Justine has represented thousands of survivors of violence and abuse in her 18-year legal career, including several high profile survivors of Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse. Now, in addition to representing survivors in very select civil cases, Justine works as a trainer and strategic consultant for non-profit women’s rights and victim’s advocacy organizations. Media includes: Ms. Magazine, MSNBC, CNN, NPR.

An advocate for women, girls, and victims of trauma, Mary David has devoted her life’s work to empowering survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and human trafficking. While serving as a prosecutor in Baltimore City, Mary was the lead on human trafficking cases in District Court and handled almost 2,000 criminal cases. She testified on behalf of the Office of the State’s Attorney for judiciary and public hearings in support of human trafficking legislation. Currently the Director of Communications for Journey Out, a Los-Angeles based nonprofit leading the fight against commercial sexual exploitation, Mary educates a range of key stakeholders on the dangers, realities, and mechanisms for assisting victims and survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Media includes: The Huffington Post, Baltimore Sun, Teen Vogue, ABC, CBS.

Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO of Just Solutions: Bringing in justice to counteract injustice, and the former V.P. of Government Relations for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund). She has testified before congressional committees at both the state and federal levels. She has also fought for and secured needed protections for poor women and survivors of violence in a number of key federal laws including two reauthorizations of the Violence Against Women Act (2005 and 2013), the 2006 reauthorization of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, and the 2009 amendments to the Stimulus law. Media includes: The New York Times, The Huffington Post, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Fox.

Jane Manning is a former sex crimes prosecutor, a victim rights advocate, and a leading expert in criminal justice and violence against women. As Director of the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she helps survivors of sexual assault navigate the criminal justice system and works to improve the justice system’s response to sexual assault, including the violent and under-prosecuted crime of drug-facilitated sexual assault. Media includes: New York Daily News, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Elite Daily, NPR.

Sheerine Alemzadeh is an attorney and the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, a non-profit organization building a worker-led movement to end gender violence. A legal expert on workplace sexual violence, she has forged strategic partnerships across the nation to develop community-based, survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence against low-wage workers. In addition to litigating sexual harassment, sexual assault, and civil rights cases, Alemzadeh co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence, a collaboration between rape crisis agencies, civil rights organizations, workers centers, and government agencies. Media includes: Huffington Post, Role Reboot, Chicago Reporter, Labor Notes.

Carrie N. Baker is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is an expert on women's rights law and policy, specializing in sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and reproductive rights and justice. Her first book, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2008), won the National Women's Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize. This book examines how a diverse grassroots social movement created public policy on sexual harassment in the 1970s and 1980s. Baker’s second book, Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), tells the story of activism against youth involvement in the sex trade in the United States between 1970 and 2015. Media includes: Ms. Magazine, New Hampshire Gazette, NPR.

Kalpana Kotagal, is a Partner in Cohen Milstein, and a member of the firm’s Civil Rights & Employment practice and Chair of the firm’s Hiring and Diversity Committee. Kotagal focuses almost exclusively on employment class actions involving allegations of discrimination. Currently, she represents a class of female sales employees in a Title VII and Equal Pay Act case against one of the nation's largest jewelry chains in Jock, et al. v Sterling Jewelers Inc. Her clients have alleged a pattern of sex discrimination in compensation and promotions. Media includes: The Hill, The Washington Post, Variety, NPR.

Kristen Houser is a leading expert on sexual violence. With decades of experience in the field, Houser is a go-to source for context and expert opinion to national, regional, and international media on sexual assault issues and cases. Houser is currently a lead spokesperson for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and Raliance, a national partnership working to end sexual violence in one generation. She provides expert opinion, context and facts about sexual assault to media covering high-profile cases, including those of Bill Cosby and Jerry Sandusky. Media includes: The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Forbes, CNN.

Maya Raghu is Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Counsel at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C. She leads federal and state policy development and advocacy, litigation, public education, and stakeholder engagement focused on women's economic security and employment opportunity, including equal pay, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment, with an emphasis on women of color in low wage jobs. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, PBS Newshour, MSNBC, BBC, NPR.