Nancy Chi Cantalupo is an Associate Professor at Barry University School of Law. Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized expert on gender-based violence in education, and her scholarship focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence, particularly gender-based violence, and includes numerous articles already published or forthcoming. Her scholarship draws from her 20 years of anti-campus sexual violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims' advocate, attorney, and policymaker. Media includes: The Washington Post, USA Today, Time.

Patricia Teffenhart is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA). NJCASA elevates the voice of sexual violence survivors and service providers by advocating for survivor-centered legislation, training allied professionals, and supporting statewide prevention strategies that work to address and defy the sociocultural norms that permit and promote rape culture. Media includes: New Jersey Star Ledger, NBC, NPR.

Andrea Pino is co-author of "We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out," and co-founder of the national survivor advocacy organization End Rape on Campus. She attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a first generation college student, where she majored in Political Science and pursued research on the media framing of sexual violence. Media includes: The New York Times, Vogue, Good Morning America, CNN.

Mallory Littlejohn joined Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) in 2016 as a Staff Attorney. Since becoming Legal Director in 2019, Mallory has managed a growing team of attorneys who assist survivors of sexual harm and sex trafficking. She has presented on trauma informed advocacy at the National Victim’s Rights Law Conference, the 7th Circuit’s National Employment Lawyer’s Conference, and regularly trains attorneys and legal advocates statewide on Victim’s Rights and civil laws related to sexual harm. Media includes: Chicago Tribune, WBEZ.

Taylr Ucker-Lauderman is the Director of Communications at the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, where she works to use the media as a platform for supporting and uplifting survivors in Ohio and beyond. Taylr believes that we must all use the tools at our disposal in order to address systems of oppression and the violence they cause in our world, and she does this by amplifying the voices of survivors and of professionals in her field. Extensive media experience.

Antonieta Rico is a fellow at Women in International Security. Previously, she was the Director of Communications and Policy at the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), where she led their public affairs efforts. She has been published in various outlets including USA TODAY and wrote in TIME about the military's sexual assault epidemic and #MeToo. She also speaks on different panels and forums on the challenges women veterans and military women face. She served in the U.S. Army from October 2001 to September 2008, working as a military journalist and public affairs NCO. She has served in Iraq and embedded with various Army and infantry units during day-to-day missions and combat operations. Media includes: TIME, Task & Purpose, USA Today, National Geographic.

Elizabeth L. Jeglic Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is an internationally renowned expert on criminal justice reform, sexual violence prevention, child abuse prevention, sexual offenders and sex offender legislation as well as suicide and suicide prevention. She has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters on evidence-based treatment within the criminal justice system sexual violence prevention and topics related to suicide prevention. Media includes: The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian.

Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, is Chief Executive Officer for the International Association of Forensic Nurses, where she implemented the adult/adolescent online SANE training and learning management system. She comes with 30 years nursing experience, with a focus on forensic nursing since 1995. She presents nationally on a variety of forensic nursing-related topics, including sexual assault and abuse, intimate partner violence, strangulation, child maltreatment and program sustainability. Media includes: Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Health, CNN.

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.

Wagatwe Wanjuki is a writer and activist who first got her start blogging and organizing for social change as a co-organizer of the movement at Tufts University for an improved sexual assault policy. As a survivor-turned-activist, she uses her experience to help the most disempowered to use the power of new media to raise the voices of the most marginalized. Knowing the importance of Title IX and empowering students, she served as a contributor and media consultant with the Know Your IX campaign to educate students. Media includes: PolicyMic, Feministing, ESSENCE Magazine.

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.

Fatima Goss Graves, is the President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. Ms. Goss Graves has served in numerous roles at the National Women’s Law Center for more than a decade and has a distinguished track record working across a broad set of issues central to women’s lives—including income security, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace justice. Goss Graves is currently overseeing the Center’s administration of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which connects those who experience sexual misconduct including assault, harassment, abuse and related retaliation in the workplace or in trying to advance their careers with legal and public relations assistance. Media includes: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR.

Rochelle Keyhan is the Chief Executive Officer of Collective Liberty and the 2018 Thomson Reuters Foundation Stop Slavery Hero. Rochelle offers 10 years of experience in government and nonprofit organizations as an advocate for vulnerable populations, leveraging in-depth experience in gender-based violence issues, including domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. As CEO at Collective Liberty, she develops and executes the organization's strategic direction and collaborations focused on disrupting specific types of human trafficking, including recruiting and maintaining robust collaborative networks of law enforcement, agency stakeholders, and service providers. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, Associated Press New York Magazine, NBC, CBS, ABC, 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.

Dr. Amber J. Keyser has a PhD from the University of Georgia and is the author of fifteen books for tweens and teens. She has significant expertise in sex-positive and consent-focused sex education, rape culture and the #MeToo movement, and the commodification of the female body in history, fashion, and media. She is the author of No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture (Twenty-First Century Books, 2019), a deep dive into the #MeToo movement, which dissects the beliefs, behaviors, and cultural norms that excuse and normalize male sexual aggression and violence. Extensive media experience.

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. Baker's primary areas of research are women's legal history, gender and public policy, and feminist activism. 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.

Jaclyn Friedman’s work has redefined the concept of “healthy sexuality” and popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that is quickly becoming law on many US campuses. She is the author of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety. As an undergraduate, Jaclyn thought she was too smart to become a victim of sexual assault – until another student proved her wrong. Since then, she has become a tireless anti-rape activist, changing the conversation by insisting that authentic sexual liberation is a necessary condition to end the systemic sexualization and violation of women. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Today Show, Huffington Post, Salon, CNN, BBC.

As the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, Karla Altmayer, Esq. advances a multidisciplinary, community-driven model to transform individuals, neighborhoods, and broader communities, to break the silence of gender-based violence. Altmayer also co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence (CAWSV), a collaboration among sexual assault advocates, attorneys, and labor organizers in Chicago, and co-authored its popular education curriculum and legal guide. Media includes: Univision, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, La Raza, Chicagoist, WBEZ.

Dr. Julia Fleckman is an Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. The primary focus of Dr. Fleckman's work is the prevention of violence. Dr. Fleckman’s experience has been focused in the field of violence prevention for the past 10 years through research and community-based programming. Her current emphasis is on understanding and evaluating mechanisms for the prevention of childhood exposure to violence and sexual violence. Extensive media experience.

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.

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. She served as president of the NYC chapter of NOW, where she helped lead successful campaigns to repeal New York’s statute of limitations on rape and to criminalize strangulation attacks. She trains first-year prosecutors annually on interviewing crime victims. At the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she is working 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.

Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Gold’s areas of interest are in college mental health, women’s mental health and gender equity, physician wellness, medical education, and the between popular media, stigma, and psychiatry. She has written about Judge Aquilina’s handling of the Larry Nassar case and its importance for survivors, educating about how to prepare for psychotherapy, and first person accounts of sexual harassment in healthcare for the InStyle launch of TIME’S UP Healthcare. Media includes: InStyle, Self Magazine, Glamour, Time, Huffington Post.

Dr. Megha Ramaswamy is a recognized thought leader in the field of criminal justice and women’s health. As a sexual health researcher and academic, her work has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and her research portfolio is over $9 million. For the last 15 years she has studied how the intersection of urban living, race, class, and gender structure health and social risk for women and men involved in the criminal justice system. Megha's work has led to the development of behavioral and systems-level interventions that address the intersection of trauma, sexual health, and cancer prevention. Media includes: Rewire, The Medical Care Blog.

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.

Madeline Garcia Bigelow is the Associate Executive Director and Director of the Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center, an advocacy and direct legal service organization dedicated to serving New York City’s most vulnerable residents. She founded the Project in 2003, assembling a team of attorneys, social workers, and advocates who work cohesively to address the issues confronted by victims of domestic violence in both a legal and non-legal context. Media includes: New York Daily News, Telemundo, Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Michelle Garcia joined the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants as its director in 2016. Previously, Michelle was director at the Stalking Resource Center at the National Center for Victims of Crime in April 2006 and served as the Director of the Stalking Resource Center since October 2006. The mission of the Stalking Resource Center is to enhance the ability of professionals, organizations, and systems to effectively respond to stalking. The Stalking Resource Center envisions a future in which the criminal justice system and its many allied community partners will effectively collaborate and respond to stalking, improve victim safety and well-being, and hold offenders accountable. Media includes: The Washington Post, USA Today, Voice of America.