Reality DV” – Season Two: Coercive Control

“Reality DV” – Season Two: Coercive Control

Speaker Biographies Mark Adams

Mark Adams is a licensed mental health counselor and a child mental health specialist, who is one of the supervisors of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) at Wellspring Family Services (WFS). In his work at WFS, Mark facilitates specialized parenting groups for fathers who have acted abusively towards the mothers of their children, the DV Dads group. He also co-facilitates Kids Club groups for children who have grown up with the experience of adult intimate partner DV, in conjunction with Jewish Family Service.

Sara L. Ainsworth, J.D.

Sara L. Ainsworth, J.D. is the Director of Legal Advocacy at the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a non-profit organization that works to secure the human and civil rights, health and welfare of all women, focusing particularly on pregnant and parenting women, and those who are most vulnerable to state control and punishment - low income women, women of color, and drug-using women. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where she taught the Domestic Violence Clinic and Gender Violence and the Law, and a lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, where she taught Gender Violence, Poverty Law, and Reproductive Rights and Justice. Prior to teaching law school, Sara was Senior Counsel at Legal Voice, where she worked to improve the civil legal response to domestic and sexual violence, and to secure the rights of all women to reproductive health and freedom. She began her career as a legal services attorney with the Northwest Justice Project and Snohomish County Legal Services, representing survivors of domestic violence in family law and other cases. Her professional interests lie in the intersection of intimate partner violence, state violence, and reproductive health. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law.

Margaret Alquist, MSW, MPA

Margaret Alquist, MSW, MPA is a Community Corrections Officer and Domestic Violence Lead for the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) and has served in this capacity for the last 30 years. She is responsible for developing and implementing a DV policy, curriculum, and training for DOC staff. Margaret started out her DV career as a community-based DV advocate with New Beginnings. She also served as a crisis social worker for Oahu Hawaii’s child protection system. Margaret is an active member of the King County DV and Child Maltreatment Coordinated Response Oversight Committee She also has participated over the last ten year in an East King County collaborative on DV coordinated response.

Khurshida Begum

Khurshida Begum educates and challenges individuals and organizations to recognize human trafficking and its negative effect on every community and every country, including the US. After 15 years as a successful professional business women, Ms. Begum decided her passion was to be a social entrepreneur. She founded ASHHO, an organization providing comprehensive training to educate and empower communities to end human trafficking, including guidance on identifying victims and on helping survivors by connecting them with crucial services and resources. Ms. Begum teaches by sharing her personal experience of being a trafficking survivor from Bangladesh. She has provided trafficking education to schools, colleges, churches, conferences, corporations and organizations all over the country. Ms Begum is married, has a 12 yr-old son and lives in Washington. She enjoys volunteering, motorcycling, stiletto shopping and spending time with her friends and family.

Judge Elizabeth J. Berns

Judge Berns is a King County Superior Court Judge. She is the Chair of the King County DV and Child Maltreatment Coordinated Response Oversight Committee, and is currently the Assistant Chief Judge at the Maleng Regional Justice Center. Judge Berns graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a B.S. in Environmental Health and Law, and received her J.D in 1993 from the University of Puget Sound School of

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Law. She began her legal career working with the Attorney General’s Office, and then opened her own practice where she spent the next 19 years supporting individuals and families in many areas including family law. Immediately prior to taking her position on the Bench, she sat frequently as a Pro Tem Judge in Municipal Court and King County District Court, and as a Pro Tem Commissioner in King County Superior Court. Judge Berns has been active in the community helping others understand LGBTQ Domestic Violence in relationships and families, and has recently co-authored a separate chapter on LGBTQ Minorities and Sexual Offenses in the Sexual Offense Bench Guide for Judges, and the Domestic Violence Manual for Judges.

Kim Bogucki

Detective Kim Bogucki, co-founder of The IF Project, has more than 25 years of experience with the Seattle Police Department, focusing primarily in fostering community outreach and connectivity. Her self-motivated focus led her to establish and develop nationally replicated programs; “The Donut Dialogues” and “The West Side Story” were formed to effect change for the youth and homeless members of the community. These are examples of Kim’s innovative and successful approach to reducing cycles of crime and recidivism.

Her current role is leading the work of “The IF Project”, a unique partnership with inmates at Washington Department of Corrections facilities. The introspective writing and presentations include inmate participation, both during their incarceration and after their release and re-entry. She has received numerous awards for her work, including: The Red Cross Heroes Award, Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Seattle Storm’s Women that Inspire Award, the Center for Children’s Youth and Justice President’s Award, the Seattle Police Foundation Excellence Award, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Community Award, Department of Corrections Volunteer of the Year at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) Community Leader Award, and Washington State Mentors Association Unsung Heroes Award. The Department of Corrections has enlisted Detective Bogucki’s assistance with their gender responsive initiative and she serves as Officer Liaison to the LGBTQ Advisory Council and to the East African Advisory Council. In addition, she is an active member of the board of directors of both the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) and Correctional Industries.

She recently launched another non-profit organization: Tithe One On (titheoneon.org), which aims at re- messaging antibullying and creating communities of kindness. Kim recently represented The IF Project at a conference in Amsterdam, alongside members of academia of her alma mater, Seattle University.

Carla Carlstrom

Carla Carlstrom is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with the King County Prosecutor’s Office. She is currently in the homicide unit and has also spent several years in the Domestic Violence and Special Assault Units. The Nicole Pietz case is one of several cold case homicides that she has tried with colleague Kristin Richardson.

Yasmin Christopher

Yasmin Christopher is a recent graduate of Seattle University School of Law. She formerly was an extern with the Honorable Judge Mary Yu in King County Superior Court, a law clerk with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and policy fellow at the Polaris Project, an organization that takes a comprehensive approach to human trafficking, based in Washington D.C.; President of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Law Student Association; and member of the Seattle University Law Public Interest Law Foundation She is also a board member at OneAmerica, a local immigrant rights non-profit; a national delegate for We Belong Together, an organization that advocates for immigration rights as a women’s equality issue; and an honorary International Ambassador to the Bangladesh Work Camp Association, an organization that works to foster quality cultural exchange experiences in her native Bangladesh. Yasmin also lends her voice and personal story to raise awareness about human trafficking. She was a part of a King County Metro Bus public service announcement campaign in 2013 and has traveled the state giving lectures at various colleges on her family’s experience and possible public policy improvements on the issue. In addition, Yasmin has donated her time and artwork to various fundraising events through her collaboration with

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the Refugee Women’s Alliance and the International Rescue Commission that work to provide direct services to trafficking survivors here and abroad.

Jeralita “Jeri” Costa

Jeralita "Jeri" Costa is currently working with the Department of Corrections as a Hearing Officer. She was elected to serve the 38th Legislative District, including Everett and Marysville. She served two terms in the House of Representatives, 1995-1999; she then won a seat in the Senate and served until 2003. She served as executive director of Families and Friends of Violet Crime Victims from 1989-1993, and continued as a member of their advisory board. She taught workshops on victim services, criminal justice, corrections and nonprofit management issues through the country. Jenny has been a citizen activist and community volunteer, and was also a private sector employee for many years. Jeri's formal education included journalism, paralegal, business administration, financial and personnel management.

Judge Charles J. Delaurenti, II

Judge Delaurenti spent his first year out of law school as law clerk for Chief Justice Robert T. Hunter, Washington State Supreme Court, and then spent 12 years with the King County Prosecutors Office in the criminal, juvenile, and civil divisions.

He has been active in judicial education during his time on the bench has previously served as President of the King County District Court Judges’ Association (1987).

He is a past Dean of the state Judicial College (District/Municipal Court). He also served six months as a Judge Pro Tempore of the King County Superior Court (during the start up of the Regional Justice Center in Kent) hearing superior court matters and is currently a Portability Judge.

Judge Delaurenti served on the state Board for Court Education (12 year member and Chair), as a member of the Executive Committee of the District/Municipal Court Judges’ Association (state association) and been a past Chair (12 years) and active in JASP.

He is a current member of the King County District Court Executive Committee and South Division Presiding Judge. He is the current Judge the District Court Domestic Violence Court. He has served on innumerable state and local committees.

Judge Delaurenti is committed to bringing to the citizens of the South Division of the King County District Court a responsive and well educated judiciary.

Jeff Dernbach

Jeff Dernbach is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney currently on his second rotation in the Domestic Violence Unit of the King County Prosecutor’s Office. In his 17 years with the KCPAO, Jeff has worked in the DV Unit, Special Assault Unit, Sexually Violent Predators Unit, Homicide Unit and also served on the prosecution team tasked with reviewing murder cases affected by the Andress ruling in 2004. Jeff received his J.D. from the University of Oregon.

Jen Dieringer, LICSW, CMHS

Jen is the Children’s Domestic Violence Response Team Program Coordinator at Sound Mental Health. Jen has over 7 years’ experience working with survivors and children in individual, family and group therapy in the community mental health arena. Her theoretical passions include directive play therapy and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

Tonya Dotson

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Tonya Dotson has over 18 years of offender management experience in the criminal justice system. She is the Lead Probation Counselor for the Domestic Violence Unit at Seattle Municipal Court Probation Services. As the Lead Probation Counselor, she has supervised numerous misdemeanant offenders who have been sentenced for domestic violence offenses, as well as specializing in offenders who are known to have multiple high risk factors. She has been working at Seattle Municipal Court in the Probation Services Division since 2004. Prior to that, she was manager at Pioneer Fellowship House (Federal Work Release). She has a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Central Washington University.

Marie Fortune

Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune is the Founder and Senior Analyst at FaithTrust Institute. Ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1976, she is a pastor, educator, author and theologian. Her books include: Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse: Sexual Violence: The Sin Revisited; and Is Nothing Sacred?

Anne Ganley, Ph.D.

Anne Ganley, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice, and a Clinical Associate Professor in psychology at University of Washington. Dr. Ganley is co-author of the Washington State Domestic Violence Manual for Criminal and Civil Court Judges 1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2014 produced by the Washington State Gender and Justice Commission. Her educational seminars for judicial officiers In criminal, family law, and dependency courts both in Washington and nationally span 35 years. She has co-authored national curriculums for civil and criminal court judges. Dr. Ganley is a contributing author to the Washington Social Worker’s Practice Guide to Domestic Violence, Ganley, A. and Hobart, M., contributing authors; editor: Kelly, M. (2010 ) Children’s Administration, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. She authored (2009) Domestic Violence, Parenting Evaluations and Parenting Plans: Practice Guide for Parenting Evaluators in Family Court Proceedings (is available at no cost: www.kccadv.org). Dr. Ganley has received multiple awards and honors for her work in the field of domestic violence. In 2007, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Domestic Violence and Health Conference, San Francisco. Dr. Ganley received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1976, her Counseling Psychology degree from the University of New Mexico in 1969, and a Bachelor of Arts in English degree from Bates College, Maine in 1966.

Noel Gomez

Noel Gomez is a survivor of domestic sex trafficking. She spent 15 years in “the life” before finding a way to exit. Once exiting Ms. Gomez completed her BA majoring in Social Justice at Antioch University in Seattle. She has worked for years as an advocate for both youth and adult survivors. She has been facilitating the city’s diversion program for over 4 years. Ms. Gomez is the co-founder of OPS ( the Organization for Prostitution Survivors) as well as the director of survivor services. Ms. Gomez facilitates support groups, individual advocacy and much more. Ms. Gomez has also been a consultant for the U.S. government to address domestic trafficking.

Mary Guiberson

Ms. Guiberson is currently a Program Manager for The Compass Housing Alliance’s (CHA), Cascade Women's Program Transitional Housing. Mary has also served as Program Manager at Hammond House Overnight Emergency Shelter for Women, both located in Seattle. Mary has held multiple positions at CHA, for the past 14-years. Mary has survived childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, years of trauma and has overcome her struggles with a 20-plus year addiction. Additionally, she survived years of being in and out of the judicial system. Ms. Guiberson first got to know The Compass, over 15 years ago as a resident of Cascade. She spent 18 months in the program; where she began healing and learning more about herself. Through that experience Mary realized she deserved a better life. In 2003, Ms. Guiberson earned her Associate of Arts degree from Seattle Central Community College, with an additional certificate in Chemical Dependency. During that time she spent a year volunteering for a New Beginnings and two years working for the Washington State

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Alcohol/Drug Helpline; where she was a trainer and consultant to staff at domestic violence shelters and drug/alcohol treatment centers. In addition, Mary sat on the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Board of Directors as the representative for the Women in Recovery Caucus, and she played a powerful role in integrating the issues of domestic violence and chemical dependency. In 2005, Mary went on to graduate from Evergreen State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In June 2007 she graduated from Seattle University with a Masters in Arts in Organizational System Renewal and Design. She sat as a Board member on a number of local nonprofit organizations serving women, and served on the National Transitional Housing Steering Committee for the National Network to End Domestic Violence—often traveling to different states, to share her story. Some of her local achievements are Co-Founder of Thrivers Action Group; the group achieved their 501C (3) status. Mary was TAG’s first Board President. In addition to TAG, she is a Co-Founder and member of the Board for Triple Play Connections, and is their Conference Coordinator. In her roles Mary is working to bring practitioners from chemical dependency, mental health, domestic violence (both perpetrator and victim) and sexual assault, to the table for collaboration. Mary continues to define who she is and how she fits into the lives of those we serve.

Janet M. Helson

Janet M. Helson is a partner at Skellenger Bender, where she focuses her practice on family law. Her past practice includes twelve years of service as a staff attorney, then regional director, for Columbia Legal Services, where she also focused on family law issues, with an emphasis on domestic violence. In addition to representing individual clients, Janet trained and supervised many other family law attorneys and was extensively involved in court committees and legislative work groups. She was actively involved in drafting Washington’s Child Relocation Act and also worked on legislative issues related to domestic violence, the Parenting Act, child support, and kinship care. Janet has been a frequent presenter on topics of interest to family law attorneys. She served on the Executive Committee of the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section from 2001 to 2007 and was recognized in 2004 as the State Bar Family Law Section’s Attorney of the Year. Currently she serves on the National Family Law Advisory Council for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She has served as a member and treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section and was recognized in 2004 as the State Bar Family Law Section’s Attorney of the Year. Previously Janet served as a pro tem court commissioner in the King County Superior Court.

Honey Jo Herman

Honey Jo Herman is honored to have worked with The IF Project since 2010 and Pioneer Human Services since 2013. She is motivated to share the story of her successful transition from prison back to her community as a means of inspiring others who are going through transitional periods of their lives. As the mother of four children, she is empathetic to the painful difficulties that incarcerated parents face when separated from their children. She is at her happiest when she sees others take steps to improve their lives and realize their potential. As she continues to diversify her professional experience, she is certain that it will always have a component of service. “People are interactive in their own demise, but they are equally interactive in turning their lives around.” Honey was recently member of a panel of speakers at a TEdxEvent when she gave a TEDTalk at Monroe Correctional Facility, filmed as part of the Tedx Turning Keys Event. Honey’s TedxTalk was entitled “The Scarlet F” sharing her insight as part of a collective group of speakers addressing the issues surrounding prison reform.

Shirley Herrera

Shirley Herrera survived a tremendous amount of challenges and struggles. She was surrounded by instability and abuse growing up and tried her best to care for her siblings. She was attempting to take care of the other kids in her family, while at the same time trying to survive and fend off abusers who were exploiting her while she herself was a child. This repeated abuse led her to running away from home. These events were a pattern that would be repeated throughout her adolescence and teen years until ultimately, life on the streets became the lesser of two evils. Her homelessness led to drug use, seemingly the only way to escape the pain of her reality. Despite having tried repeatedly to rehabilitate herself in homeless shelters, she was unable to navigate the streets in a way as to avoid predatory relationships. These relationships perpetuated the abuse and horrors

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and lead to her criminal behavior, arrests and subsequent incarceration. These patterns and her continued return to drug use led to a point in which she was suffering from schizophrenia. Subsequently, Shirley had a near death life experience during a particularly horrendous violent assault from the father of her unborn child. This experience was the catalyst for tremendous change. She began participating in a 12- step program and worked tirelessly to create a different experience for herself. With only a 6th grade education, as a young woman determined to forge a new path, Shirley was steadfast in her studies and achieved state licensure as a Sales Producer in the state of Washington, works full time for Allstate Insurance Agency, provides love and stability for her 3 children, assists others in their 12-step program and is preparing for work in additional outreach programs. Her work as a member of The If Project Team allows her to connect with kids that are going through similar experiences she went through, and are facing the life situations she faced. “A lot of damaging experiences happened to me and when I share my story I am reminded of where I was and where I am now. It is healing for me to tell my story. When I do, the kids know that I was where they are, and going in a different direction can happen and there can be healing for them, too. I think if someone had gotten on my level and listened, it would have helped me. I want them to know things can be different. In my life, a lot of things have changed. But most importantly, I have changed and now, my life is a blessing.”

Commissioner Mark J. Hillman

Commissioner Mark J. Hillman was appointed to the King County Superior Court bench as a statutory commissioner in 2007. Prior to his appointment, he was in private practice for over 21 years, and his practice was almost exclusively in the area of family law. Commissioner Hillman is a past president of the South King County Bar Association and past trustee for the King County Bar Association. Commissioner Hillman sat on the Dependency Calendar from January 2010 to January 2014. Commissioner Hillman currently presides over the domestic violence calendar and the family law calendars at the MRJC. Commissioner Hillman has presented at numerous CLE events, statewide, nationally, and internationally.

Judge Anne Hirsch

Judge Anne Hirsch was first elected to the Thurston County Superior Court in 2006 and currently serves as a Criminal Presiding Judge. In the past Judge Hirsch has served as a general jurisdiction trial judge, Family Recovery Court Judge and Presiding Judge at Family and Juvenile Court.

Judge Hirsch was an original member of the Advisory Committee that created the programs at Thurston County’s Family and Juvenile Court and has spent years working on issues of concern to families and children. She has participated as a trainer and student in many national, regional and local trainings related to DV, family and dependency law, and drug court, among other issues. Judge Hirsch was recently appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the Superior Court Judge’s Association’s Family and Juvenile Law Committee. She is a member of and serves as a facilitator for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She was previously the Chair of the Washington State Foster Care Commission’s Best Practices Workgroup.

Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Hirsch served as a part-time Family and Juvenile Law Commissioner for over 14 years. Judge Hirsch maintained a private law practice prior to and during the time she served as a Court Commissioner, including work as a mediator and guardian ad litem. Before opening her practice, Judge Hirsch worked for many years as a legal services attorney, representing low-income families needing legal assistance. Judge Hirsch has participated as a trainer and volunteer and has served on local community boards including the Thurston County DV Fatality Review Board, the Thurston County Bar Association, Friends of the Olympia Farmer’s Market, the Child Care Action Council and the Lincoln-Options Site Council. Judge Hirsch was a founding Board Member of Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services and currently is President of the Board of Directors for the Thurston County Food Bank.

Leigh Nachman Hofheimer

Leigh Nachman Hofheimer has over 25 years of experience in the field of domestic violence work and works for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV). She has worked in community-based domestic violence advocacy programs, battered women’s shelters, and as an advocate for battered women and

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their children in the health care system, criminal and civil legal system as well as general systems advocacy within a variety of institutions. She has trained multi-disciplined practitioners including: health care professionals, domestic and sexual violence advocates, representatives of criminal and civil legal system, social service agencies and batterer’s intervention treatment providers. At the Coalition, she works to develop public policy statewide that supports the self-determination and safety of survivors of domestic violence (and their children). Additionally, Leigh provides technical assistance and training to Coalition members which include direct service victim/survivor advocacy agencies and individuals throughout Washington State.

Grace Huang, JD

Grace Huang, JD, is the public policy program coordinator for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a statewide membership organization of domestic violence shelters, advocacy programs, organizations and individuals committed to ending domestic violence. At WSCADV Ms. Huang focuses on legislative and administrative advocacy on behalf of the interests of domestic violence survivors at both the state and federal level. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law. Prior to her position at WSCADV, Ms. Huang practiced immigration law in private practice, and before that, she represented low- income individuals in family law, domestic violence, immigration, and public assistance matters in a civil legal services organization. She currently is a member of the National Taskforce to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and serves on the steering committee of the Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence, the Advisory Committee of the Battered Women’s Justice Project, and on the Public Policy Committee of the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

Ms. Huang is the recipient of the 2013 University of Washington School of Law Distinguished Alumnae Award from the Law Women’s Caucus, and a 2008 inductee of the UW Law School Public Interest Law Association Hall of Fame. She was recognized by the Washington State Bar Family Law Section as “Professional” of the year in 2005, and received the 2000 Cynthia Gillespie Award from the Northwest Women’s Law Center recognizing her work advancing legal rights for women, and in 1999, along with her colleagues, received the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project "Golden Door Award" for her advocacy on behalf of immigrants

Denise James

Denise James spent her early childhood on the Lummi (also known as Lhaq'temish) Native American Reservation in Whatcom County, in western Washington. Her father struggled with severe alcoholism, was employed sporadically as an artist with inconsistent income. Unable to parent her, she subsequently lived, from the ages of 10-18, in a succession of horribly unhappy and dysfunctional homes of relatives and friends. She witnessed atrocities and felt thankful that her father had not been abusive; she did not anticipate that his alcoholism would cause dysfunction in her adult life. She started her own family at 19, recreating the life she experienced, by marrying a man who was addicted to drugs. This was the same year her father died. At the time of her crime, she had never spent a day in jail, but had spent so much time in the company of addicts, that she had reached a point of no sense of self worth. “If I would’ve been able to draw a line, it would have been different, but I felt a sense of responsibility to stick with it. I was codependent. My life was bad; I didn’t care about living. I emotionally exploded but at the same time became detached.” In prison, women shared with her the benefits of self reflection. She started reading books, taking parenting classes and went from being detached to caring. During her work release she was a screener for sea mammal project, a job she stuck with for over a year that paid barely above minimum wage. She later secured a cultural job, harvesting medicinals and bark and recovering bones of ancestors. She participated in preparing previously desecrated bones, for reburial with respect, in a burial ceremony. She subsequently received a community college certificate in drafting and participates in the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Apprenticeship Services Apprenticeship Registration and Tracking System (ARTS). She is currently employed full time as an apprentice, learning the varied aspects of the trade, on her way to becoming a Journeyman Electrician. When she was first approached to share her experiences with children in juvenile detention, she did not think her story would be applicable, because she had not been in the system as a youth. However, when in prison, she met many women from The Lummi Reservation and when she speaks to groups, she recognizes Native children and sees herself in them. Aware that it is difficult sometimes for people to connect when they have different backgrounds, she focuses on the common ground she feels with all people who need to be reached. She offers insight to the

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kids about how pivotal a point they are in their lives: “You and I did the same things; I hope you will change now, while you are still in your youth, because when you turn 18, it changes things. You do not have to go down that road. I found myself facing a deep hole to climb out of when I got out of prison. Now, I am here to tell you that you don’t have to go through that; what you’re facing can be a stepping stone, not a deep hole. The choice is yours.”

Kenny James

Kenny James has over five years of offender management experience in the criminal justice system. He is a Probation Counselor in the Domestic Violence Unit at SMC Probation Services. He has been working in this capacity since 2010. He supervises misdemeanant offenders who have been sentenced for domestic violence offenses. Additionally, he supervises offenders who have been ordered to undergo mental health evaluations. Prior to this, he worked at Department of Corrections as a Community Corrections Officer and supervised a caseload of high risk offenders, including offenders with sex offenses, DV offenses, and offenders with mental health issues. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington where he majored in American Ethnic studies and minored in Sociology.

David Law

David Law is a partner at Skellenger Bender, where he focuses his practice on family law litigation. He is a past chair of the Family Law Section of the King County Bar Association and has served on the Executive Committee of the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section. David served on a taskforce organized by the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Northwest Women’s Law Center that helped draft comprehensive revisions to the civil protection order statute and he assisted in the redrafting of those portions of the Parenting Act that require court mandated restrictions for sex offenders. David served for several years as co-chair of the Legislation Subcommittee of the Family Law Section of the King County Bar Association. He is also co-author of the chapter “Pretrial Motions Practice” in the Washington Family Law Deskbook (2d. ed. 2000), and has been an instructor at the annual Washington Bar Association Family Law Skills Institute and a speaker at seminars to professional and lay groups on topics including civil contempt and parenting plan and child support modifications.

Michelle Lifton

Michelle Lifton was hired by Jewish Family Service in June 1999 to create and direct their domestic violence program, Project DVORA, Domestic Violence Outreach Response and Advocacy. She has worked with survivors of domestic violence since 1992, providing direct services to families, community outreach and education, consultation, and program development. Ms. Lifton holds a Masters of Science in Women’s Studies.

TK Logan, Ph.D.

TK Logan, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky with joint appointments in Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, and Social Work. Her research and writings focus on stalking, protective order effectiveness, sexual assault, and health disparities of rural women with partner violence experiences. Dr. Logan has conducted a comprehensive study on the effectiveness of civil protective orders and the costs and cost-benefit of protective orders. Dr. Logan has also conducted about 15 different studies on partner stalking and has some of the most extensive information about stalking in the nation. Dr. Logan is an author on over 130 research articles and serves on the editorial board of three international journals. Dr. Logan is also leads five different substance abuse treatment outcome studies. Dr. Logan is involved with a several community boards and national organizations working to prevent violence against women. Dr. Logan’s books include: Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications (American Psychological Association Press) and Partner Stalking: How Women Respond, Cope, and Survive (Springer Publisher).

David Martin

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David Martin is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting attorney for King County. He currently serves as the head of the KCPAO Domestic Violence Unity. He has held several positions for KCPAO: felony trial supervisor Seattle DV Unit, mainstream traial deputy, Seattle and MRJC DV trial deputy, vice-chair District Court Unit, and the Drug Unit. Most of his 17 year career as a prosecutor has been spent in the Domestic Violence Unit. David serves on the Board of Directors for Lifewire, is a former New Beginnings board member, and is a founding member of the Men’s Network Against Domestic Violence, and serves on the King County Domestic Violence Initiative Regional Task Force. He was recently appointed to the American Bar Association’s National Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

Kathleen Martin

Kathleen Martin is a King County Dependency CASA Program attorney, representing CASA volunteers in court as they advocate for the best interests of children. She has a passion for child advocacy and a long history with CASA, starting as a volunteer in 1978 with the King County Program. She volunteered with the Tippecanoe, County, Indiana GAL Program while in law school, and again in King County from 1993-2002. Prior to joining the King County CASA Program staff in 2007, her law practice included domestic and foreign business dissolutions and family law.

Jenny Mashek

Jenny Mashek is an attorney in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Unit of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP). In that capacity she represents clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Review (EOIR) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Jenny received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her J.D. from the University of Iowa. She spent five years practicing law at Farmworker Legal Services of Michigan before joining NWIRG in May 2008. She is fluent in Spanish. Contact Jenny at [email protected].

Theresa Matheson

Theresa Matheson was a conscientious elementary school student in Southern California, with dreams of someday becoming an astronaut. A traumatic life-changing experience at the age of 12 had devastating ramifications not realized until later in her life. Theresa’s teens and twenties were fraught with drug abuse and she endured a severely abusive relationship and marriage for over a decade. On the cusp of turning 30, Theresa was sentenced to prison for a serious violent offense. During her incarceration she was instrumental in establishing standards and practices towards the personal development and enrichment for the inmates. She facilitated personal growth workshops, and worked alongside a core group of inmates to create a holistic support system for and by the inmates. This grassroots community building organization named “Women’s Village” aims at empowering women in all aspects of their lives. After 11 years of incarceration, Theresa is now working full time as a hair stylist and is a full time student on the path to fulfilling her dream of becoming a domestic violence counselor. She wants to continue to use her experiences to help women going through similar crises. “Not only is it imperative but totally possible to help other women rebuild their lives and learn how to live again after experiencing the trauma of domestic violence and abuse. I want to help them, and I want to help kids change paths before they go to prison.”

Detective Randy McAlister

Sgt. Randy McAlister has been working in the emergency services since 1990 as an EMT, Nationally Registered paramedic, and a police officer. He has been with the Cottage Grove Police Department, just outside of St. Paul, Minnesota, since 1998 and is currently assigned as the Detective Sergeant in charge of investigations. He also served for 14 years on the Washington County SWAT team and retired from the team in 2013 as a Team Commander.

Randy holds an M.A. from Concordia University (St. Paul, MN) in Criminal Justice Leadership and a B.A. in Organizational Studies from Bethel University (St. Paul, MN). He has attended Gavin de Becker and Associates’ Advanced Threat Assessment and Management Academy in Lake Arrowhead, California and is

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also a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals--specializing in the assessment and management of targeted violence. Workplace violence, domestic violence and stalking investigations are his primary focus and he is currently administering a validation study of a stalking-violence-risk tool in Washington County, Minnesota.

Dr. Nancy Murphy

Dr. Nancy Murphy serves as Executive Director of Northwest Family Life Learning and Counseling Center (NWFL). Since 1989, NWFL, a faith-based non-profit agency in Seattle, WA, has been dedicated to assisting individuals and families in finding hope and healing when confronting the pain of domestic violence. This organization offers advocacy and support for abused women and children, a state-certified intervention program for batterers, and prevention programs that include marital and pre-marital counseling, individual and couples counseling, workshops and training programs.

Tracee Parker, MS, MA, PsyDc

Tracee Parker, MS, MA, PsyDc was the Program Director of a nationally recognized supervised visitation project 2003-2012 (Safe Havens Visitation Center/Safe & Sound Visitation). The visitation program specifically designed to identify and address post-separation battering via access to children and strived to increase safety for adult and child victims of domestic violence while decreasing further opportunities for abuse. Ms. Parker's background includes domestic violence advocacy, community organizing, violence prevention, mediation, nonviolent conflict resolution training, and domestic violence perpetrator treatment. She holds a B.A. from Washington State University, a M.S. from Nova Southeastern University, and a M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University Seattle where she is currently pursuing her doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Her research focus is coercive control and post-separation battering.

Shannon Perez-Darby

Shannon Perez-Darby is the Youth Services Program Manager at The Northwest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse. Under her guidance, the NW Network has developed a regional LGBT youth crime victims program serving LGBT youth who experience dating and family violence, sexual assault, trafficking, robbery, harassment, and a host of other victimizations. Bridging her work with youth and youth workers Shannon has developed an extensive LGBT youth technical assistance project focusing specifically on mandatory reporting issues, LGBTQ youth homelessness, support for LGBT youth in the sex trades and LGBT youth dating violence issues. Shannon has a deep commitment to supporting LGBT youth to live fabulous lives by supporting youth leadership and self-determination.

Kristin Richardson

Kristin Richardson is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with the King County Prosecutor's Office. She has been a prosecutor for 25 years and a member of the PAO's homicide unit for over 13 years, investigating murders and taking them to trial. Richardson has been an adjunct professor at the Seattle University School of Law and an instructor for the National District Attorneys Association. The Nicole Pietz case is one of several cold case homicides that she has tried with colleague Carla Carlstrom

Sarah Rizvi

Sarah Rizvi is a Senior Advocate at API Chaya, an organization serving South Asian, Middle Eastern, and API women and working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in our communities. She also directs the Peaceful Families Project, a Community Mobilization project of API Chaya that works in local Muslim communities to create Peaceful Families using Qur’anic models of family, domestic violence education and prevention, and community organizing. She has worked on social justice issues in the US and has done development and organizing work abroad with slum populations in Pakistan and India. Sarah has earned a BA in English and Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MA in International Relations from Columbia University in New York.

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Kellie Rogers, BA

Kellie Rogers, BA is the Program Manager for Domestic Violence Services at the YWCA. She developed the Children’s Domestic Violence Program and has worked with hundreds of children and their families around issues of domestic violence. Currently, Kellie is a member of the CPS/DV Best Practices Team for Region IV, a board member of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and a member of the Children’s Domestic Violence Response Team.

Dan Satterberg

Dan Satterberg was elected King County Prosecuting Attorney in November 2007 to succeed his longtime friend and mentor, the late Norm Maleng. He was re-elected in 2010 without opposition. Dan served as Chief of Staff for Norm Maleng for 17 years, and was responsible for the management and operation of the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, including budget, human resources, technology, legislative and policy matters. The Prosecuting Attorney's Office employs more than 210 attorneys, 230 staff, and has a budget of over $55 million. Before 1990, Dan was a trial attorney in the Criminal Division, where he spent rotations in the Special Assault Unit, Drug Unit, and served as the office's first gang prosecutor in 1988. Dan was born and raised in South King County and attended Highline High School. His father was a lawyer in White Center and his mother was a nursing instructor at Highline Community College. He graduated from the UW undergraduate school (Political Science and Journalism) and the UW Law School.

Evan Stark

Evan Stark, Ph.D. is a forensic social worker and award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence. His critically acclaimed book, Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life (Oxford, 2007), was named the best social science book published in 2007 by the American Publishers Association and has an important influence on on legal and police reform throughout Europe. He has provided expert testimony on abuse in over 100 criminal, custody and child welfare cases and was the lead expert in Nicholson v. Williams, a federal class action that made it unconstitutional to remove children because of abuse from nonoffending mothers.

Heather Stark

Heather Stark has been a professional journalist and broadcaster for more than 15 years. She has worked as a health reporter and freelance medical writer as well as serving as communications director for a hospital and medical clinic. Ms. Stark is an author, trainer, community activist, and domestic violence advocate with HEALEverywhere. She received her education at Walden University and the University of Colorado.

Ann Summers

Ann Summers is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in King County. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California—Berkeley. She clerked for Judge Marshall Forrest of Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals before joining King County Prosecutor’s Office in 1993. From 1998-2012, she specialized in appellate practice. She is now the head of training for the criminal division.

Kiana Swearingen

Kiana Swearingen is the Prevention Educator for New Beginnings; in this role she facilitates semester long anti- violence healthy relationship groups in Seattle middle schools. She also conducts outreach and facilitates trainings in the community around the topic of teen and adult intimate partner violence. She has worked on long-term projects that facilitate understanding, dialogue and training between domestic violence service providers, child protective services and mental health professionals. She is currently the domestic violence trainer and consultation support for Seattle Children’s Hospital. Kiana also served on a Prevention Cohort with the Washington State Coalition against Domestic Violence. Kiana has been at New Beginnings for 8 years and

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previous to her current work she served as adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Early Childhood Department.

Leah Taguba

Leah Taguba is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney at the King County Prosecutor’s Office. Before joining the office in 2006, Leah worked as a Statistician/Demographer for the Department of Commerce/Census Bureau in Maryland. Currently, Leah is assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit where she negotiates early resolutions for criminal felony cases before they get set for trial. She is also the supervising attorney for the DV Unit’s district court prosecutors who handle all misdemeanor DV cases occurring in unincorporated King County.

Nancy Travis

Nancy Travis is a Department of Corrections Hearing Officer, and has been a BIP treatment provider.

Ward Urion

Ward Urion currently is working as Lifewire’s Social Change Program Manager. Ward began working with domestic violence victims in the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in 1987 in both felony and misdemeanor crimes as a domestic violence victim’s advocate in Northeast District Court in Redmond and then later as the supervisor of the Victim Assistance Unit in the Juvenile Division of Prosecutor’s Office. He has trained numerous community members and criminal justice professionals throughout his career as well as several hundred City of Seattle employees as the “DV in the Workplace” Training and Education Coordinator. He administered $6.5 million worth of federal grant dollars and helped draft Seattle’s Domestic Violence Strategic Plan while in the Seattle Human Services Department. Ward has been the executive director of a batterer’s intervention program and a coordinator of services between mental health, chemical dependency and domestic violence agencies. Ward co-founded the Men’s Network Against Domestic Violence, (re-named the Northwest Men’s Project), a grass-roots community group with the mission to raise awareness and encourage the expression of masculinities that demonstrate strength, respect and honor without the more traditional characteristics of violence and domination. By engaging other men in this effort, NWMP endeavored to create safer and healthier communities through effective training and mentoring of young men and boys. Over the last several years, as Project Director of the Men’s Domestic Abuse Check-Up (a NIH funded study at the University of Washington), Ward manages a research study that explores motivational enhancement therapy (MET), as a potentially effective approach to improving self-referral to treatment, program retention, treatment compliance, and post treatment outcomes among men who batter.

Maureen Walum

For over thirty years Maureen has worked for the Children’s Administration Child Protective Services and Child Welfare programs in Washington State. For the past thirteen years Maureen has served as a CPS supervisor with the King West CPS office in Seattle. Maureen was recruited to participate in the DV and Child Maltreatment Project in 2003, and she has been an active member of the King County DV and Child Maltreatment Coordinated Response Project’s Best Practices Workgroup since 2004. Maureen has been a leader within her organization to better provide services to children and their families who are affected by DV. Maureen is committed to DV work and she has facilitated dialogue, case staffing, problem solving, and implementation of DV best practices within the CPS system. Maureen has a BA from Pacific Lutheran University.

David Ward, J.D.

David Ward is legal and legislative counsel at Legal Voice, an organization that works to advance women’s rights in the Northwest. His areas of responsibility include gender violence, family law, and LGBT rights. He is a member of the Washington Supreme Court’s Gender and Justice Commission and the QLaw Foundation board of directors. David previously served as a staff attorney at the Access to Justice Institute at Seattle

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University School of Law, where he founded a program to help DV, sexual assault, and stalking survivors obtain unemployment insurance benefits. He also worked at the law firm of Heller Ehrman, where he provided pro bono counsel to survivors in family law and protection order matters. Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman. He is a graduate of Yale Law School.

Judge Christopher Wickham

Judge Wickham is currently assigned to the Family and Juvenile Court of Thurston County Superior Court in Olympia, Washington. Prior to his election in 2004 as a Superior Court Judge, Judge Wickham served for 13 years as the Family Court Commissioner for Thurston County Superior Court. As Commissioner, Judge Wickham helped develop programs at Superior Court including the Unified Family Court, the Courthouse Facilitator program, Orientation for self-represented litigants, and Family Treatment Court. He has chaired two Domestic Violence Summits for Thurston County and helped organize and conduct trainings for guardians’ ad litem, attorneys, and other professionals in the area of domestic violence. Judge Wickham has served as faculty for the Enhancing Judicial Skills Institutes in Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse. He has helped develop a firearm surrender protocol, a child protective services domestic violence protocol, and a process for resolving conflicts between no-contact orders in Thurston County. He has served on the Washington State Gender and Justice Commission and the Board of Judicial Administration, where he was co-chair. Judge Wickham had a general legal practice in Olympia, first with an emphasis on family law matters and later on elder law. He had previously worked as a legal services attorney in Connecticut and Olympia. Judge Wickham is admitted to practice law in California, Connecticut, and Washington. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Hastings College of the Law. He enjoys sailing, tennis, cycling, running, and his family (not necessarily in that order!).

Robert Wyman, JD

Robert Wyman is a native of the Seattle Area, and returned here from Denver after earning a JD and MSW from the University of Denver Law School and Graduate School of Social Work. Currently, he serves as the co- director of the Court Improvement Training Academy at the University Of Washington School Of Law. He practiced at The Defender Association for 12 years. As the Dependency Division Supervisor since 2005 he oversaw approximately 8 attorneys and a caseload of approximately 550 Dependency, Guardianship, and Termination of Parental Rights Cases, representing parents or children/youth. Rob is also the Resource Attorney for an ongoing study of the University of Michigan’s Law School, Child Advocacy Law Clinic’s QIC ChildRep Best Practice Model for representing children in child welfare cases. This Washington statewide study involves more than 100 attorneys representing children and youth in 24 counties.

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