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- [Home](https://theccc.international/): THE INTERNATIONALCOERCIVE CONTROLCONFERENCE Founding Principles and New Directions in Coercive Control HOSTED AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 524 West 59 Street, NY, NY 10019 APRIL 10-11, 2026 REGISTER NOW! CountDOwn Featured Speakers in 2026 Reem Alsalem UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Adam Joel Filmmaker David Martin Prosecutor Wendy
- [Schedule](https://theccc.international/schedule/): All sessions will be streamed for virtual attendees and recorded and available for viewing by all registered attendees for a limited time. PLEASE NOTE Wifi Network for Conference: John Jay Events Wifi Password: Events@Jay24 Download Full 2026 Program
- [Speakers 2026](https://theccc.international/speakers-2026/): Reem Alsalem UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Bronwyn Blake Chief Legal Officer and Adjunct Law Professor Michael J. Broyde Law Professor and Scholar of Religious Divorce Leighann Burns Survivor Advocate Amy Burrell Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology and Researcher Christine M. Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW Educator and Advocate Dr. Béatrice Coscas-Williams Lecturer
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- [About Us](https://theccc.international/about-us/): Vision ICCC envisions a society where women and children are free from violence, exploitation, and oppression, and have autonomy to thrive. Mission ICCC’s mission is to end coercive control as a form of violence against women and children by creating opportunities for collective education and awareness-building, and advocacy for positive and significant societal change and
- [Speakers 2021](https://theccc.international/speakers-2021/): Kate Amber Educator and Expert Witness Renee Beeker Survivor and Advocate Christine Cocchiola Michelle Cruz Attorney Roz Davidson National Domestic Abuse Consultant and Trainer Dr. Linda Dubrow-Marshall Professor Rod Dubrow-Marshall Professor and Trainer Nancy S. Erickson Attorney and Consultant Lisa Fontes Researcher, Lecturer and Author Min Grob Survivor and Publisher Sue Haile Researcher and Advocate
- [Speakers 2023](https://theccc.international/speakers/): Nazir Afzal Former Chief Crown Prosecutor Shawnee Benton-Gibson Activist and CEO Ruhi Bengali Senior Advisor at Everytown for Gun Safety Julie Bindel Feminist and Journalist Tommy Black Mental Health Counselor Amy Bonomi Professor and Researcher Cerise Castle Journalist Christine M. Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW Educator and Advocate Roz Davidson National Domestic Abuse Consultant and Trainer Gail
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- [Speakers 2022](https://theccc.international/speakers-2022/): Leighann Burns Survivor Advocate Christine Cocchiola Dr. Molly Dragiewicz Dr. Jose Fernandez Ruiz Lisa Fischel-Wolovick Attorney and Author Christine Forner Phyllis B Frank Rose Garrity Dr. Carmen Gill Dr. Andreea Gruev-Vintila Social Psychologist and Lecturer CV Harquail Ryan Hart Marianne Hester Commissioner Nicole Jacobs Dr. Peter Jaffe Dr. Natalie Jones Jennifer Lahl XiaoWen Liang Dr.
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## Sessions

- [Making Invisible Patterns Visible](https://theccc.international/session/making-invisible-patterns-visible/): Coercive control is rarely a single dramatic incident — it is a pattern, woven across hundreds of ordinary moments that, in isolation, can seem unremarkable. In this demonstration, Rich Simon shows how artificial intelligence can be trained to recognize those patterns by grounding it in the field's most rigorous frameworks: Evan Stark's model of coercive
- [Risk and Harm: Post-Separation Abuse, Perpetrator Suicide, and Ongoing Threats to Women and Children (Session 4)](https://theccc.international/session/hidden-trauma-addressing-incest-and-suicide-as-tools-of-coercive-control-session-4/): This session addresses two particularly devastating yet often overlooked manifestations of coercive control: post-separation coercive control and the health impacts of invisible abuse. Silke Meyer presents research on victim-survivors' current experiences and perceptions of risk during post-separation coercive control, illuminating how abuse often escalates after leaving and how survivors navigate ongoing danger while trying to
- [Advancing Justice Through Enhanced Assessment: Tools and Frameworks for Identifying Coercive Control (Session 1)](https://theccc.international/session/advancing-justice-through-enhanced-assessment-tools-and-frameworks-for-identifying-coercive-control-session-1/): This session presents cutting-edge assessment tools and interdisciplinary frameworks for identifying coercive control in legal and clinical settings. Diana Griffin and Tracy Schoberg introduce SAFeR Enhanced, a specialized approach for identifying coercive control patterns in child custody decision-making cases, demonstrating how this tool helps legal professionals recognize controlling behaviors that may not be immediately visible
- [Too Grim to Print: How Journalism Silences Coercive Control and How We Broke Through (Kickoff Session)](https://theccc.international/session/amplifying-voices-media-advocacy-and-survivor-education-session-8/): Freelance investigative journalist Ena Miller (Channel 4 News, BBC) leads this session on how stories are routinely blocked inside newsrooms - rejected as "too grim" or "too complex." From a British perspective, the session invites attendees to explore how we can help shift newsroom cultures and amplify survivor-led narratives. In response to the Giselle Pelicot case, Ena
- [Mechanisms of Power: Expanding the Coercive Control Framework to Courts, Cults, Trafficking, and Queer Intimacies (Session 4)](https://theccc.international/session/mechanisms-of-power-expanding-the-coercive-control-framework-to-courts-cults-trafficking-and-queer-intimacies/): This innovative session features five mini-presentations by graduate students from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, showcasing cutting-edge research that expands the coercive control framework into new contexts and populations. These presentations collectively demonstrate how coercive tactics manifest across seemingly disparate settings—from cults to trafficking to queer relationships—while advancing both methodological and theoretical innovations in
- [Constitutional Rights and Criminal Justice Reform: Advancing Women's and Children's Legal Protections in Domestic Violence Cases (Keynote--Session 8)](https://theccc.international/session/constitutional-rights-and-criminal-justice-reform-advancing-womens-and-childrens-legal-protections-in-domestic-violence-cases-keynote/): In this opening keynote, constitutional law expert Wendy Murphy examines how the criminal justice system can better protect women and children in domestic violence cases through constitutional rights frameworks and systemic reform. Drawing on decades of legal scholarship and advocacy, Murphy explores the intersection of constitutional protections and domestic violence law, highlighting how fundamental rights
- [Breaking the Silence: Sexual Abuse as a Weapon of Coercive Control (Session 5)](https://theccc.international/session/breaking-the-silence-sexual-abuse-as-a-weapon-of-coercive-control-session-8/): This session addresses one of the most painful and least discussed aspects of coercive control: sexual abuse within intimate partner relationships and families. Lisa Fontes presents on intimate partner sexual abuse as a powerful weapon of coercive control, examining how sexual violence and coercion are used to dominate, humiliate, and maintain power over intimate partners.
- [Transforming Justice: Police Response and Legal System Reform (Kickoff Session)](https://theccc.international/session/transforming-justice-police-response-and-legal-system-reform-session-4/): This session examines critical questions about law enforcement responses to violence against women and the role of trauma in legal proceedings. Leighann Burns presents a crucial analysis asking: before we abandon criminalizing violence against women, have we properly assessed current effectiveness? Her presentation examines the evidence for and against criminal justice involvement in domestic violence
- [Legal Innovation and Implementation: Translating Coercive Control Theory into Practice (Session 3)](https://theccc.international/session/legal-innovation-and-implementation-translating-coercive-control-theory-into-practice-session-3/): This session examines the critical work of translating Evan Stark's groundbreaking coercive control theory into legal practice across multiple jurisdictions. Cassandra Wiener explores Stark's concept of the "liberty crime" and discusses the transformative paradigm shift that occurs when legal systems recognize coercive control as a fundamental violation of personal freedom rather than merely a pattern
- [Academic and Religious Contexts: Understanding Coercive Control in Institutional Settings (Session 3)](https://theccc.international/session/academic-and-religious-contexts-understanding-coercive-control-in-institutional-settings-session-3/): This session explores how coercive control manifests in institutional settings including academia and religious communities, contexts where power dynamics and authority structures can enable and perpetuate abuse. Melissa Kwon and Liat Wexler present groundbreaking research on academic coercive control, examining how controlling behaviors manifest in higher education settings among students, faculty, and staff. They discuss
- [Misogyny, State Failure, and the Family Court Crisis: Pathways to Survivor-Centered Justice (Session 2:  Featured Speaker)](https://theccc.international/session/misogyny-state-failure-and-the-family-court-crisis-pathways-to-survivor-centered-justice-session-2-featured-speaker/): In this powerful lunch session, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem examines the deep-rooted misogyny and institutional failures that characterize family court systems globally. Alsalem draws on her extensive work documenting state complicity in perpetuating violence against women through family court decisions that prioritize parental rights over child safety and
- [Protecting Children: Evidence Management and Comparative Court Responses (Session 1)](https://theccc.international/session/protecting-children-evidence-management-and-comparative-court-responses-session-1/): This session examines how family courts across different jurisdictions respond to post-separation abuse and coercive control, with particular focus on protecting children caught in these dynamics. Elizabeth Dalgarno presents comparative research on family court responses in Brazil and England, revealing both promising practices and concerning gaps in how legal systems address post-separation coercive control when
- [Recantation as a Form of Coercive Control (Keynote)](https://theccc.international/session/recantation-as-a-form-of-coercive-control/): In this groundbreaking keynote, prosecutor and researcher David Martin examines recantation—when victims withdraw accusations or refuse to cooperate with prosecution—as itself a form of coercive control rather than merely an obstacle to prosecution. Drawing on his 28 years of experience in domestic violence prosecution and his book "Recantation and Domestic Violence: The Untold Story," Martin
- [Healing Pathways: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Recovery and Reintegration (Session 5)](https://theccc.international/session/healing-pathways-trauma-informed-approaches-to-recovery-and-reintegration-session-5/): This session focuses on therapeutic interventions and support programs that facilitate healing and recovery for survivors of coercive control. Saira Khan presents research and practice innovations in facilitating reintegration, growth, and recovery after coercive control, examining the specific challenges survivors face when rebuilding their lives after leaving controlling relationships and identifying evidence-based approaches that support
- [Media and Storytelling: Film as a Tool for Understanding Coercive Control (Session 6)](https://theccc.international/session/media-and-storytelling-film-as-a-tool-for-understanding-coercive-control-session-6/): In this engaging lunch session, filmmaker Adam Joel discusses how media and storytelling—particularly film—can serve as powerful tools for understanding and educating about coercive control. Joel explores how visual narratives can make visible the subtle, insidious patterns of control that are difficult to explain through statistics or legal definitions alone, reaching audiences who might not
- [Systemic Responses: Family Courts, Peer Support, and Institutional Reform (Session 7)](https://theccc.international/session/systemic-responses-family-courts-peer-support-and-institutional-reform-session-7/): This session explores systemic and institutional responses to coercive control, examining documentation practices, peer support interventions, and institutional dynamics. Ruth Darlene presents a trauma-informed approach to empowering survivors through documentation of coercive control, addressing the critical challenge of how survivors can effectively document patterns of controlling behavior that leave little physical evidence. Her work provides
- [Faith, Law, and Technology: Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Identifying Coercive Control (Session 7)](https://theccc.international/session/faith-law-and-technology-multi-dimensional-approaches-to-identifying-coercive-control-session-7/): This session examines three distinct but interconnected contexts where coercive control operates: international custody disputes, religious marriage relationships, and law enforcement response. Leighann Burns addresses the urgent need to stop penalizing protective mothers under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, examining how international custody law is weaponized against survivors fleeing across borders with their
- [A Lethal Combination:  Coercive Control, Men, and Guns](https://theccc.international/session/2393/): 9:00 AM PDT/12:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM BST/5:00 PM CEST/3:00 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this critical talk, Ruhi Bengali and Doreen Dodgen-Magee will explore the complex and urgent intersectionality of gun violence and intimate partner violence. From her team’s research at Everytown for Gun Safety, Bengali will provide critical data and evidence of the
- [A Status Update:  Women’s Oppression Worldwide](https://theccc.international/session/2391/): 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM EDT/6:00 PM BST/7:00 PM CEST/5:00 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this powerful session, speakers Andreia Nobre and Nerea Novo will report on their research into key areas of female oppression worldwide. Andreia Nobre, an international journalist covering subjects like obstetric violence, reproductive rights and male violence against women, will discuss
- [Keynote](https://theccc.international/session/2392/): 7:30 AM PDT/10:30 AM EDT/2:30 PM BST/3:30 PM CEST/1:30 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this compelling keynote talk, Julie Bindel, a prominent investigative journalist and advocate, will confront the pervasive myths surrounding prostitution and shed light on the hidden harms it inflicts upon women. With years of research and activism in this field, Bindel
- [Sounding the Alarm:  The Weaponization of Children](https://theccc.international/session/2385/): 7:30 AM PDT/10:30 AM EDT/2:30 PM BST/3:30 PM CEST/1:30 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) Join us for a screening of the powerful short film "The Timekeeper" as we delve deep into the societal costs of coercive control on women and children. Roz Davidson, National Domestic Abuse Consultant and Trainer, Cathy Press, Psychotherapist and Chris Godwin, a renowned filmmaker,
- [“The Last Drop” - A Sci-Fi Film About Relationship Abuse | Screening and Discussion](https://theccc.international/session/2374/): 1:00 PM PDT/4:00 PM EDT/8:00 PM BST/9:00 PM CEST/7:00 AM AEDT (October 29, 2023) Join us as we host director Adam Joel for an enlightening Q&A session centered around the impactful short film, "The Last Drop." This film intricately explores the lives of its characters, providing a heartfelt perspective that sheds light on the dynamics
- [Factimize: A Data Tool to Help Identify Coercive Control](https://theccc.international/session/2373/): 10:30 AM PDT/1:30 PM EDT/5:30 PM BST/6:30 PM CEST/4:30 AM AEDT (October 29, 2023) In an enlightening panel discussion, three distinguished experts in the field of interpersonal relationships and mental health - Craig Kobayashi, Dr. Tommy Black, and Gina Loretelli - will come together to explore the critical role that Factimize PatternViewer plays in helping
- [Foundations: Invisible Chains--Coercive Control of Intimate Partners](https://theccc.international/session/coercive-control-101/): 6:00 AM PDT/9:00 AM EDT/1:00 PM BST/2:00 PM CEST/12:00 AM AEDT (October 29, 2023) Lisa A. Fontes, Ph.D., a distinguished professor, renowned researcher, and the author of several groundbreaking books, including "Interviewing Clients Across Cultures: A Practitioner's Guide," "Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship," and "Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse
- [Foundations: Coercive Control of Children](https://theccc.international/session/coercive-control-102/): 7:30 AM PDT/10:30 AM EDT/2:30 PM BST/3:30 PM CEST/1:30 AM AEDT (October 29, 2023) Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW, is a multifaceted expert deeply devoted to addressing the pervasive issue of coercive control. With a diverse background spanning academia, advocacy, and personal experience, Dr. Cocchiola specializes in intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and
- [Pornography:  A Gateway to Misogyny and Male Violence](https://theccc.international/session/2396/): 3:30 PM PDT/6:30 PM EDT/10:30 PM BST/11:30 PM CEST/9:30 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this thought-provoking session, Gail Dines, a world-leading expert on pornography and CEO of Culture Reframed, will talk about the role of coercive control in the production, proliferation and use of pornography. She will also discuss the broader effect of the
- [Restricting Women’s Autonomy: Coercion in Reproductive Health](https://theccc.international/session/2395/): 2:00 PM PDT/5:00 PM EDT/9:00 PM BST/10:00 PM CEST/8:00 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this powerful session, Mary Lou Singleton and Shawnee Benton-Gibson will present compelling talks that shed light on the insidious practice of restricting reproductive health and autonomy as a form of coercive control, and the profound costs this exerts on women's
- [Exposing Enablers in the Justice System](https://theccc.international/session/2394/): 12:30 PM PDT/3:30 PM EDT/7:30 PM BST/8:30 PM CEST/6:30 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this illuminating session, Cerise Castle, David Martin, and Amy Bonomi will deliver insightful talks that unveil the unsettling connection between justice systems and their inadvertent role in enabling coercive control. These distinguished speakers will delve into the complex dynamics that
- [State Control and Surveillance](https://theccc.international/session/2390/): 6:00 AM PDT/9:00 AM EDT/1:00 PM BST/2:00 PM CEST/12:00 AM AEDT (November 5, 2023) In this eye-opening session, two influential speakers, Leta Hong Fincher and Ronald Voort, will provide compelling insights into the multifaceted issues of coercive control, state surveillance, and their intersections. Leta Hong Fincher, an acclaimed journalist and author, will discuss the ways
- [Confronting Male Violence throughout Society](https://theccc.international/session/2389/): 3:30 PM PDT/6:30 PM EDT/10:30 PM BST/11:30 PM CEST/9:30 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) In this talk, Dr. Michael Flood, a leading expert in the field of gender, violence prevention, and masculinity studies, will explore the profound costs of ignoring male violence in the context of society's collective responsibility to identify and address coercive tactics.
- [Colonialism, Historical Harms, and Interconnected Oppression](https://theccc.international/session/2388/): 2:00 PM PDT/5:00 PM EDT/9:00 PM BST/10:00 PM CEST/8:00 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) Join us for a thought-provoking session featuring two insightful voices, Desiree Kane and Hannah Taylor, as they unravel the profound intersections between coercive control, colonialism, and its historical impacts on Indigenous communities. Kane and Taylor will delve into the complex legacy
- [The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control: Undue Influence, Cults & Recovery](https://theccc.international/session/2387/): 12:30 PM PDT/3:30 PM EDT/7:30 PM BST/8:30 PM CEST/6:30 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) In this enlightening talk by renowned forensic expert Dr. Steven Hassan, prepare to gain profound insights into his BITE Model framework: the control of Behavior, Information, Thoughts, and Emotions. As a former member of the Moon cult, Hassan studied models developed
- [Any Girl: The Costs of Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution](https://theccc.international/session/2386/): 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM EDT/6:00 PM BST/7:00 PM CEST/5:00 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) Mia Döring bravely takes us into her personal journey of being sexually exploited and how that experience led her to a life as an advocate, psychotherapist and sexual trauma educator. Mia will delve into the profound costs of sexual exploitation and
- [Revealing the Ties: Male Violence and Terrorism in Society](https://theccc.international/session/unmasking-the-ties-coercive-control-male-violence-and-terrorism-in-society/): 9:00 AM PDT/12:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM BST/5:00 PM CEST/3:00 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) Join us for this keynote talk by Nazir Afzal, a distinguished figure in the field of justice and equality, as he addresses the crucial and often overlooked connections between coercive control, male violence, and terrorism in our society. In this thought-provoking
- [Femicide:  The Ultimate Cost of Coercive Control](https://theccc.international/session/2384/): 6:00 AM PDT/9:00 AM EDT/1:00 PM BST/2:00 PM CEST/12:00 AM AEDT (November 4, 2023) Join us for this session featuring two world-leading voices in the field of male violence against women, femicide and human rights, Shalva Weil and Karen Ingala Smith. In this compelling conversation, Weil and Smith will give us a status update on
- [Failure to Protect:  Coercive Control and Children](https://theccc.international/session/2383/): 11:30 AM PDT/2:30 PM EDT/6:30 PM BST/7:30 PM CEST/5:30 AM AEDT (November 3, 2023) Join Dr. Dorothy Roberts and Emma Katz as they explore the immense costs of coercive control on children. Dr. Dorothy Roberts, a renowned scholar in the fields of race, gender, and the law, will address the pressing need to recognize coercive
- [Coercion in the Media:  Lessons Learned from "The Brainwashing of My Dad"](https://theccc.international/session/the-cost-of-coercion-in-the-media-lessons-learned-from-the-brainwashing-of-my-dad/): 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM BST/6:00 PM CEST/4:00 AM AEDT (November 3, 2023) In this thought-provoking presentation, Jen Senko, the director of the acclaimed documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad," will delve into the profound impact of media coercion on our society and how her personal journey to understand her father's transformation led to
- [Coercive Control and Misogyny in Family Court](https://theccc.international/session/cc-and-misogyny-through-family-court-complicity/): 7:30 AM PT/10:30 AM ET/3:30 PM BST/4:30 PM CST/1:30 AM AEST (October 14)
- [Women are not Believed: the Credibility Deficit](https://theccc.international/session/women-are-not-believed-the-credibility-deficit/): 6:00 AM PT/9:00 AM ET/2:00 PM BST/3 PM CST/12:00 PM AEST (October 14)

## Speakers

- [Rich Simon](https://theccc.international/speaker/rich-simon/): Rich Simon focuses on making AI accessible to non-technical professionals. He is the founder of Luminate Solutions, a boutique AI enablement consultancy that helps professional teams move from AI curiosity to practical implementation. A former attorney at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Senior Manager at Deloitte Advisory, Rich has spent two decades at the intersection
- [Lisa Fischel-Wolovick](https://theccc.international/speaker/lisa-fischer-wolovick/): Lisa Fischel-Wolovick, JD, MSW is an attorney who has represented battered women for over thirty-five years. She is the author of numerous publications, including her upcoming book: Behind the Courthouse Doors: The Institutional Control of Children, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2026; and Traumatic Divorce and Separation: The impact of domestic violence and substance abuse incustody and
- [Teresa Parker](https://theccc.international/speaker/teresa-parker/): Teresa Parker is a communications strategist with more than 25 years’ experience working at the intersection of media, domestic abuse advocacy and public awareness. She specialises in helping survivors, charities and journalists navigate the complex challenges of reporting violence against women and girls responsibly. For over two decades Teresa led national media and communications work
- [Nicole Lashley-Simms](https://theccc.international/speaker/nicole-lashley-simms/): Nicole Lashley-Simms is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Nicole received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis where she majored in Cognitive Neuroscience and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and worked as a peer counselor for a sexual assault and rape crisis line. She later served as
- [Alexander Legg](https://theccc.international/speaker/alexander-legg/): Alexander Legg is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies from the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. His undergraduate thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Chitra Raghavan, examined the extent, type, and severity
- [Molly Kalmus](https://theccc.international/speaker/molly-kalmus/): Molly E. Kalmus has been in the field of Criminal Justice for her entire career. She is a practicing criminal defense attorney in New York (Manhattan), New York, where she represents indigent defendants; she is currently a Senior Trial Attorney in her office’s DNA & Forensics Unit. Prior to her current role, she specialized in
- [Sarah Feliciano](https://theccc.international/speaker/sarah-feliciano/): Sarah E. Feliciano, M.A., is a researcher, educator, and administrator whose work focuses on coercive control and abusive group dynamics. She is the Director of Master’s Program Administration in the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she also teaches undergraduate psychology. Feliciano additionally serves as an adjunct lecturer at Guttman
- [Francisco González-Espejito](https://theccc.international/speaker/francisco-gonzalez-espejito/): Francisco González-Espejito is a licensed health psychologist and a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, within the Abuse and Violence in Interpersonal Relationships team. His work examines coercive control and undue influence in intimate, family, and high-control group contexts, including their extension into online spaces. He studies how control
- [Cassandra Wiener](https://theccc.international/speaker/cassandra-wiener/): Dr. Cassandra Wiener is an Associate Professor in Law at City Law School, City St George's, University of London. Cassandra specialises in coercive control and the criminal law: her monograph 'Coercive Control and the Criminal Law', which was praised by Evan Stark as 'a remarkable achievement', explains how and why the criminalisation of Stark's paradigm
- [Wendy Murphy](https://theccc.international/speaker/wendy-murphy/): Wendy Murphy is a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor who teaches at New England Law School in Boston and heads the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project. Wendy is a popular and bold speaker on the lecture circuit, and regularly provides legal analysis for news programs such as NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News.
- [Dr. Andreea Gruev-Vintila](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-andrea-gruev-vintila/): Andreea Gruev-Vintila, PhD, is a social psychologist and senior lecturer (HDR) at Universite Paris Nanterre, recognized for her expertise on coercive control in domestic violence. She authored the first comprehensive French-language book on coercive control, which bridges scientific advances and legal reforms. Her research highlights the psychosocial processes and legal implications of coercive control, impacting
- [Leighann Burns](https://theccc.international/speaker/leighann-burns/): Accompanying survivors of violence to legal appointments and to family and criminal court as a rural outreach worker for a women's shelter and bearing witness to routine and rampant injustice women experienced ignited a life-long passion in Leighann Burns to work for change. When social upheaval in the 1990s revealed how quickly regressive social policy
- [Christine M. Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW](https://theccc.international/speaker/christine-cocchiola-2/): Christine M. Cocchiola, DSW, LCSW is a recognized expert on coercive control who earned her doctorate from NYU under mentorship of leading authority Dr. Evan Stark. She presents internationally on coercive control dynamics and developed The Protective Parenting Program, an evidence-based therapeutic model for parents whose children have been harmed by abusive partners. Dr. Cocchiola
- [Liat Wexler](https://theccc.international/speaker/liat-wexler/): Liat Wexler has worked to end relationship and sexual violence for 25 years in community-based and higher education settings. At UC Berkeley's PATH to Care Center, they lead primary prevention efforts among employees: collaborating with academic and administrative departments to develop practices, policies, pedagogy, events, spaces, campaigns, and skills that shift culture to stop power-based
- [Tracy Schoberg](https://theccc.international/speaker/tracy-schoberg/): Tracy Shoberg is the Deputy Director of the National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence with BWJP. She has trained thousands of legal practitioners on enhancing their domestic violence practice, including the SAFeR approach. Before joining BWJP, Tracy was a family law staff attorney at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services serving low-income clients. She
- [Natalie Queiroz](https://theccc.international/speaker/natalie-queiroz/): Natalie Queiroz MBE is a survivor of one of the most horrendous attempted domestic homicides seen in UK recent history. At 8 months pregnant, Natalie was stabbed 24 times with a 12-inch kitchen carving knife in a sustained and targeted attack lasting 9 minutes. The attempted murder took place in broad daylight on a 'normal'
- [Silke Meyer](https://theccc.international/speaker/silke-meyer/): Professor Silke Meyer is criminologist and social worker by training. Her work centres on different aspects of domestic violence (DV), including women and children's safety, wellbeing and recovery, men's accountability in their role as perpetrators and fathers, legal responses to DV, and the effectiveness of interventions addressing men's behaviour change. Her work has been instrumental
- [Carrie McManus](https://theccc.international/speaker/carrie-mcmanus/): Carrie McManus is the Director of Innovation and Programs at Sagesse, where she leads the development of Sagesse's programs while working to drive change and break barriers to eradicate domestic abuse. Her initiatives empower communities and challenge long-standing beliefs. Under her leadership, Sagesse has expanded, addressing abuse in diverse and underserved areas with a focus
- [Jenny Lohner](https://theccc.international/speaker/jenny-lohner/): Dr. Jenny Lohner, Ed.D. is the Founder of Survivor Resource Group, a practice dedicated to providing comprehensive support services for survivors navigating high-stakes custody evaluations and other family court proceedings. Jenny believes every survivor deserves personalized coaching, writing support, testimony preparation, and evidence organization that allows outside experts to fully understand the nature of their
- [Fatima Le Griguer Atig](https://theccc.international/speaker/fatima-le-griguer-atig/): Fatima Le Griguer Atig is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in gender-based violence, coercive control, and somatopsychic health. She serves as head and coordinator of the Trauma Care and Support Unit (USAP), where she develops innovative treatment approaches. Her clinical and research work includes an immersive surf therapy program as well as psychosensory workshops
- [Melissa Kwon](https://theccc.international/speaker/melissa-kwon/): Melissa Kwon has served as the Associate Director for Prevention at UC Berkeley's PATH to Care Center for over 5 years where she leads campuswide prevention efforts for domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. She earned her PhD in Education with an emphasis in Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education and her MA in
- [Laura June](https://theccc.international/speaker/laura-june/): Laura June is the staff attorney at Domestic Abuse Legal Advocacy Center, PSC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm that provides pro bono representation to victim/survivors of domestic abuse. She has a long standing commitment to understanding the trauma that impacts clients who are in abusive relationships due to personal and professional experiences. In law school,
- [Diana Griffin](https://theccc.international/speaker/diana-griffin/): Diana Griffin, JD, is the attorney advisor for the National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence, BWJP. Prior to joining BWJP, Ms. Griffin provided direct representation to survivors in family law matters and violence-based immigration matters. She worked at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services where she served as Assistant Managing Attorney in the Family
- [Lauri Jensen-Campbell](https://theccc.international/speaker/lauri-jensen-campbell/): Dr. Lauri Jensen-Campbell is the Executive Vice President of Research and Innovation at The Archway (formerly SafeHaven of Tarrant County) and an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her work connects academic research with community practice, focusing on intimate partner violence, coercive control, and survivor-centered risk assessment. A Fellow of
- [Ellie Hutchinson](https://theccc.international/speaker/ellie-hutchinson/): Ellie Hutchinson has worked in the GBV field for over 19 years, supporting survivors to recover from harm and to prevent harm from occurring. She is passionate about creative research methods and participation, and advocates for the centering of survivor voices in policy, practice and research. She is founder of the dots: making the connections
- [Ena Miller](https://theccc.international/speaker/ena-miller/): Ena Miller is a freelance broadcast journalist, long-form audio storyteller and producer whose journalism has explored domestic abuse, gender, mental health, immigration, race and social inequality. Her stories have appeared widely across BBC Radio Four, World Service, Online, TV News and podcasts, as well as Channel 4 News. Her work has sparked national debate about
- [Dr. Heather Douglas AM](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-heather-douglas-am/): Dr. Heather Douglas AM is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne and the Deputy Director for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). She researches legal responses to violence against women and more broadly, criminal law and procedure. She is
- [Marie Denis](https://theccc.international/speaker/marie-denis/): Marie Denis is a Belgian clinical psychologist and the co-founder of the Observatoire Feministe des Violences Faites aux Femmes (OFVFF). Her work focuses on trauma-informed, gender-sensitive, and ecosystemic approaches to coercive control and intrafamilial violence. She leads several research-action projects bridging clinical practice, judicial training, and survivor advocacy including the ACTES and ACTES 360 programs
- [Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-elizabeth-dalgarno/): Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno is the Director and Founder of SHERA Research Group, a global collective researching the harms to health and human rights violations against women and children in the family courts and other institutions. She is also a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, England. Elizabeth has worked in public and private health and
- [Dr. Béatrice Coscas-Williams](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-beatrice-coscas-williams/): Dr. Beatrice Coscas-Williams is a lecturer in criminology at Western Galilee College and Chair of the Victimology Working Group of the European Society of Criminology. She holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne (Paris V) on Victims of Sexual Assault in Israeli Criminal Proceedings and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Bar-Ilan University under the ERC-JCR program,
- [Amy Burrell](https://theccc.international/speaker/amy-burrell/): Dr. Amy Burrell is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has been researching in crime and policing for over 20 years. Much of her research has had a policing focus with topics including robbery, domestic violence, sexual offences, night-time economy violence, and spiking. She holds a BSc in Applied Psychology (Durham
- [Michael J. Broyde](https://theccc.international/speaker/michael-j-broyde/): Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law at Emory University and the Berman Projects Director in its Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles and works regularly in the area of religious divorce focusing on the Jewish tradition. He
- [Bronwyn Blake](https://theccc.international/speaker/bronwyn-blake/): Bronwyn Blake, UT Law '05, is the Chief Legal Officer of the Texas Advocacy Project and the Founder of their Teen Justice Initiative, a program that advocates for teen victims of dating violence. Blake was awarded the first UT Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law from the William Wayne Justice Center to start this valuable
- [Saira Khan](https://theccc.international/speaker/saira-khan/): Dr. Khan is an intersectional feminist and a licensed clinician in both the USA and the UK. Her doctoral research explored recovery after intimate partner violence and posttraumatic growth, and she specialises in post-traumatic stress and trauma recovery, working with adults across the lifespan. Her approach integrates evidence-based practice with a strong awareness of systemic
- [Bethany Jantzi](https://theccc.international/speaker/bethany-jantzi/): Bethany Jantzi is a coercive control consultant and mental health professional, holding an MSc in the Psychology of Coercive Control. She is passionate about helping people understand the intricate mechanisms of coercive control and believes that every person has a right to live free from coercion, abuse, and control. Her research explored high control groups and
- [Reem Alsalem](https://theccc.international/speaker/reem-alsalem/): Ms. Reem Alsalem was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences in July 2021 by the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year tenure. She started her tenure on 1 August 2021. Reem Alsalem is an independent consultant on gender issues, the rights of refugees and migrants,
- [Patti Feuereisen](https://theccc.international/speaker/patti-feuereisen/): Dr. Patti Feuereisen is a psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York, and a pioneer in the treatment of sexual abuse, particularly with adolescent girls and young women. For over 35 years, "Dr. Patti" has helped girls find their voices, heal, and speak their truth, changing the culture of sexual abuse across the world
- [Amanda Elkanick Oder](https://theccc.international/speaker/amanda-elkanick-oder/): Amanda Elkanick Oder is the Chief Advocacy and Education Officer at Texas Advocacy Project, a statewide nonprofit law firm providing free legal and social services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. A nationally recognized leader in the movement to end abuse, Amanda brings over 20 years of experience in program
- [Marsha Scott](https://theccc.international/speaker/marsha-scott/): Dr. Marsha Scott is a feminist activist, researcher and practitioner and has advocated, volunteered, researched, and worked in gender and violence against women sectors in Scotland, the UK, Europe, and the United States for 30+ years (when she stopped counting). She is Chief Executive of Scottish Women's Aid and works as a VAWG consultant for
- [Cathy Press](https://theccc.international/speaker/cathy-press/): Cathy Press has 30 years experience working as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, trainer and more recently author of the When Love Bites: A young person's guide to escaping harmful, toxic and hurtful relationships. Registered as MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cathy has specialised within the
- [David Martin](https://theccc.international/speaker/david-martin/): David Martin, J.D. is a Senior Deputy Prosecutor with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office (KCPAO) in Seattle, where he has spent 28 years in the Domestic Violence (DV) Unit. As the supervisor of the KCPAO DV Unit and co-manager of the King County Regional DV Firearms Enforcement Unit, David has been a leader in
- [Chris Godwin](https://theccc.international/speaker/chris-godwin/): Chris cut his teeth in the world of production at the BBC, where he worked on a diverse range of programmes from Newsround to the BAFTA nominated series of Short-Change. After leaving the BBC he worked in branded content for global advertising agencies HAVAS and McCann Worldgroup. Through his production company, Inner Eye, he now
- [Roz Davidson](https://theccc.international/speaker/johanna-travor/): Roz Davidson has been working with children and families in the London Borough of Lewisham for 28 years since 1993 and was the Centre Leader at a Children’s Centre in Lewisham from 2003 for 9 years, working closely with families affected by domestic abuse before opening her own company in 2013. Roz is now the
- [Lisa Fontes](https://theccc.international/speaker/lisa-fontes/): Lisa A. Fontes, PhD, stands as an internationally recognized authority in the fields of coercive control, child abuse, intimate partner abuse, and sexual violence. Her multifaceted role as a researcher, activist, expert witness, and author underscores her unwavering commitment to protecting society's most vulnerable individuals from violence and abuse. With numerous journal articles and several
- [Gina Loretelli](https://theccc.international/speaker/gina-loretelli/): Gina Loretelli is a Founder, Communications Consultant and Coach, (High-Conflict, Domestic Violence, Coercive Control) 2019-Present. Communications Analyst focusing on techniques and strategies when coercive control is an issue in intimate relationships, separated families, or in the workplace. Consulted on more than 100 child custody cases involving coercive control, domestic violence, and emotional/psychological abuse issues in over
- [Nazir Afzal](https://theccc.international/speaker/nazir-afzal/): Nazir Afzal OBE, was Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England and formerly Director in London. Most recently, he was Chief Executive of the country’s Police & Crime Commissioners. During a 24 year career, has prosecuted some of the most high profile cases in the country and advised on many other and led nationally on several
- [Doreen Dodgen-Magee](https://theccc.international/speaker/doreen-dodgen-magee/): Doreen Dodgen-Magee is an award winning author, speaker, and psychologist. She's also a survivor of domestic violence familicide. Doreen's sister-in-law, Laura, and three nieces (ages 5, 3, and 5 months at the time) were murdered by Laura's husband, their father, in 1995. Her mother-in-law was also injured by "shot" from the gun/bullets, and was severely
- [Hannah Taylor](https://theccc.international/speaker/hannah-taylor/): Hannah Taylor, a proud Kamilaroi woman, brings a wealth of experience to her roles as a social worker and researcher. Currently pursuing her Ph.D., her research centers on the Intersectional factors of Coercive Control for First Nation women in Australia. Over the years, Hannah has collaborated extensively with Indigenous communities, using her skills in project
- [Julie Bindel](https://theccc.international/speaker/julie-bindel/): Julie Bindel is a feminist campaigner, writer, and investigative journalist, and podcast host, primarily concerned with human rights abuses towards women and girls. She writes regularly for the Observer, Unherd, Sunday Times, The Critic, Spectator, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and Tortoise, just to name a few. Her latest book is Feminism for Women: The Real Route
- [Shawnee Benton-Gibson](https://theccc.international/speaker/shawnee-benton-gibson/): Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW / FLDC is the CEO of Spirit of A Woman (S.O.W.) Leadership Development Institute and the Co-Founder of the ARIAH Foundation. She has over 32 years of administrative, clinical and executive coaching experience and expertise in women’s leadership, youth development, reproductive justice, racial equity, individual and group counseling, trauma and bereavement.
- [Michael Flood](https://theccc.international/speaker/michael-flood/): Professor Michael Flood is an internationally recognised researcher on violence against women, violence prevention, and men, masculinities, and gender. He has contributed to national and international frameworks for violence prevention, explored community understandings of domestic violence, and led international research and advocacy on engaging men and boys in prevention. Professor Flood is the author of
- [Steven Hassan](https://theccc.international/speaker/steven-hassan/): Steven Hassan, PhD, is a licensed mental health professional, an expert on undue influence, brainwashing and unethical hypnosis and author of the best-selling book, Combating Cult Mind Control. Steven Hassan is the Founding Director of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, a coaching, consulting, and training organization dedicated to supporting individuals to have the freedom
- [Gail Dines](https://theccc.international/speaker/gail-dines/): Dr. Gail Dines, a Professor Emerita of Sociology, has been researching and writing about the porn industry for well over thirty years. She is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and author of numerous books and articles. Her latest book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked
- [Andreia Nobre](https://theccc.international/speaker/andreia-nobre/): Andreia Nobre is a Brazilian journalist and writer who has been an activist for women's rights since 2012, advocating for the end of obstetric violence. In recent years, she has self-published books on feminism (The Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism and The Grumpy Guide to Motherhood). Nobre is passionate about women's rights and researched about
- [Shalva Weil](https://theccc.international/speaker/shalva-weil/): Shalva Weil, D.Phil, FRHistS, is Senior Researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has published over 150 articles in scientific journals, edited several books (OUP, Marg, Magnes, Palgrave-Macmillan and more), ran educational projects among Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, and a project for immigrant women from Caucasia
- [Amy Bonomi](https://theccc.international/speaker/amy-bonomi/): Amy Bonomi, Ph.D., M.P.H. is Professor and Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives in the College of Health and Human Services at Northern Arizona University, founder of Social Justice Associates, faculty affiliate at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, and consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Bonomi’s career as an award-winning professor at
- [Leta Hong Fincher](https://theccc.international/speaker/leta-hong-fincher/): Dr. Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is author of the critically acclaimed books, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China and
- [Karen Ingala Smith](https://theccc.international/speaker/karen-ingala-smith/): Karen Ingala Smith is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Femicide Census, the UK’s most comprehensive source of data on women killed by men and the men who killed them. In 2012 she started Counting Dead Women recording and commemorating women killed by men in the UK. Karen is currently Chief Executive of nia–an
- [Dorothy Roberts](https://theccc.international/speaker/dorothy-roberts/): Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She
- [Nerea Novo](https://theccc.international/speaker/nerea-novo/): Nerea Novo is a journalist and data analyst. In 2020, she received the Best Practices in Non-Sexist Communication Award for updated information and data on femicides and other sexist murders by the Association of Journalists of Catalonia (ADPC). Nerea specializes in research documentation and reports, data analysis, the design and creation of arguments, and the
- [Mary Lou Singleton](https://theccc.international/speaker/mary-lou-singleton/): Mary Lou Singleton is a distinguished and compassionate healthcare professional whose unwavering dedication to women's health and reproductive rights has made her a prominent advocate and leader in her field. As a Family Nurse Practitioner and Midwife, Mary Lou's career has been marked by her tireless commitment to empowering women with the knowledge and choices
- [Desiree Kane](https://theccc.international/speaker/desiree-kane/): Desiree Kane (she/they) is a Miwok activist and journalist who collaborates with collectives, nonprofits, organizations, and individuals to organize and produce journalism and art highlighting social justice issues. She is currently creating and stewarding an Indigenous language immersion metaverse. During the COVID-19 shutdowns, Desiree co-hosted an Indigenous food-culture show for two seasons, highlighting traditional Indigenous
- [Emma Katz](https://theccc.international/speaker/emma-katz-2/): Dr Emma Katz, Ph.D., is a researcher in domestic violence and coercive control, whose work has influenced legislation and professional practice in the UK and globally. Her book Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives (2022, Oxford University Press) is influential and acclaimed, as is her expert academic blog Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma
- [Cerise Castle](https://theccc.international/speaker/cerise-castle/): Cerise Castle is a Los Angeles-based journalist specializing in arts & culture, civil rights, criminal justice, and human interest stories. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, as well as created, produced and hosted A Tradition of Violence, a podcast detailing the history and criminal activity of
- [Ruhi Bengali](https://theccc.international/speaker/ruhi-bengali/): Ruhi Bengali is the Senior Advisor for Implementation at Everytown for Gun Safety, leading the organization's effort to better implement and enforce existing gun safety laws. She joined Everytown's research team in 2016 and oversees a team of researchers, whose work has provided critical data and evidence to support the organization’s state and federal legislative
- [Adam Joel](https://theccc.international/speaker/adam-joel/): Adam Joel is an impact-driven filmmaker and a survivor of relationship abuse. He is the Writer and Director of The Last Drop— a short sci-fi film about relationship abuse inspired by the memories of real survivors. Adam is leading an international campaign using this revolutionary film to help people identify and react to the
- [Mia Döring](https://theccc.international/speaker/mia-doring/): Mia is the author of the best selling memoir Any Girl, A Memoir of Surviving Prostitution in Ireland. From 2011 to 2017 she successfully campaigned for the introduction of the Nordic or Equality model of prostitution legislation in Ireland. She is a writer, activist, TedX speaker and works closely with SPACE International, a sex trade
- [Craig Kobayashi](https://theccc.international/speaker/craig-kobayashi/): Craig Kobayashi has been the Co-Founder and Chief Project Manager of Factimize PatternViewer (aka EVDense Holding Company, Inc.) for the past 15 years. Craig has been a frequent speaker at various state bar continuing legal education programs across the country on the use of communication data in family law matters, and at business forums on
- [Tommy Black](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-tommy-black/): Tommy Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice since 1998. He has served as a member of the Georgia Composite Board for Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage & Family Therapists for 10 years. Seven of these years, he was a member of the Cognizant (Complaint) Committee, where
- [Ronald Voort](https://theccc.international/speaker/ronald-voort/): Ronald Voort is a documentary filmmaker and produced and directed “In The Interest of the Child,” a documentary exploring one mother’s encounter with the Dutch child welfare system. He also produced the short documentary ‘Pain-free Mama” which came out in 2023.
- [Christine Cocchiola](https://theccc.international/speaker/christine-cocchiola/): Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, a Coercive Control Advocate, Educator, Researcher, & Survivor has been dedicated to the field of intimate partner violence since her late teens. Dr. Cocchiola is a tenured professor at a Connecticut College and an adjunct instructor at NYU, teaching in the Social Work field for over 20 years. Her expertise is
- [Jen Senko](https://theccc.international/speaker/jen-senko/): Jen Senko is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and media activist. Her documentaries are; Road Map Warrior Women (2000), The Vanishing City (2010) and The Brainwashing of My Dad (TBoMD) (2016) (narrated by actor Matthew Modine). TBoMD, which was adapted into a critically-acclaimed book (2021), tracks the divisive and dangerous rise of right-wing media, how
- [Alex Kasser](https://theccc.international/speaker/speaker-2/): Alex Kasser is an attorney, an advocate and a former Connecticut State Senator. In 2018 she flipped a seat to become the first Democrat since 1930 to represent Greenwich, Stamford and New Canaan. In 2020, Kasser won re-election and has been a bold voice for defending democracy and advancing equality. She developed and passed ground-breaking
- [Michelle Cruz](https://theccc.international/speaker/michelle-cruz/): A former Assistant District Attorney and former head of the Connecticut Office of the Victim Advocate, and with over 20 years as a trial attorney, Michelle Cruz is a legal pioneer in the field of victims' rights, family law and civil litigation for the betterment of her clients. Michelle's life's work is to defend and protect
- [Teri Yuan](https://theccc.international/speaker/teri-yuan/): Teri Yuan is a survivor, a feminist business consultant, and founder of the Engendered Collective, a platform for survivors, practitioners, and allies to connect in community, learning, and advocacy through the radical inquiry of patriarchy. As part of the Collective’s work, Teri manages the Kanduit QNA social service community and hosts the weekly podcast, en(gender)ed.
- [Bal Howard](https://theccc.international/speaker/bal-howard/): Founder of BKH Training, Bal advocates on the issues of honor-based violence. Bal herself was forced into a child marriage. Escaping after 8 years, but disowned by her family for over 25 years, she uses her experience to raise awareness, reduce victim isolation and increase reporting. Bal was employed by Suffolk Constabulary for 7 years
- [Emily Thibeault](https://theccc.international/speaker/emily-thibeault/): Emily Thibeault is a domestic violence survivor and youngest daughter of Jennifer Magnano, who was murdered by her estranged husband after many years of extreme coercive control and abuse. Emily shares her story to raise awareness around domestic violence and advocates for law reform. She and her siblings have worked tirelessly to pass two important
- [Roman James](https://theccc.international/speaker/roman-james/): Roman James is a protective parent and family court activist in Los Angeles County. She works with domestic abuse organizations and government agencies within LA County to create awareness about post separation and coercive control mechanisms like economic and litigation abuse. In 2018, she organized five mothers to file a joint complaint against an abusive
- [Marty A. Sumner](https://theccc.international/speaker/marty-sumner/): Chief Marty A. Sumner (retired, 2016) served 30 years as a law enforcement officer with the High Point Police Department. He was responsible for the research, development, and execution of the highly effective Offender Focused Domestic Violence Intervention (OFDVI) strategy still in service internationally today. Sumner currently serves as Senior Deputy Commissioner of the Fraud
- [Lis Hoyte](https://theccc.international/speaker/lis-hoyte/): Lis Hoyte is a Certified speaker, Life Coach, domestic abuse advocate, and survivor. Lis started her career as a high school teacher specializing in Humanities, Health and Social Care and Psychology. As a speaker and Life coach, Lis draws upon the concepts in her book, Break Free, to empower women to ‘Break Free’ from coercive
- [Elizabeth Stewart-Williams](https://theccc.international/speaker/elizabeth-stewart-williams/): Elizabeth Stewart-Williams is the founder of Liz Evonne Dispute Resolution Services LLC, a conflict resolution firm that assists women and families in underserved communities settle disputes. After spending over 12 years in the American Family Court systems fighting her own child custody case, Elizabeth identified her passion to help families avoid the impediments of fighting
- [Min Grob](https://theccc.international/speaker/min-grob/): Min Grob has used her lived experience of coercive control to raise awareness and educate. She produces CCChat - an online magazine on and around coercive control which is read in 33 countries.
- [Dr. Evan Stark](https://theccc.international/speaker/evan-stark/): Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker, a widely published author and an award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence, including its effects on children. Dr. Stark’s book, Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Oxford, 2007) was named the
- [Renee Beeker](https://theccc.international/speaker/renee-beeker/): Renee Beeker is the founder and President of the National Family Court Watch Project. A speaker and advocate for reform of the judicial system since 1996, Renee is a respected contributing member to many professional and grassroots organizations. Renee has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences around the United States. Renee’s article, “The Illusion
- [Senator Susan Rubio](https://theccc.international/speaker/speaker-1/): California State Senator Susan Rubio is a California State Senator Susan Rubio is a domestic violence survivor and has been a longtime champion of policies and funding that help victims. In 2019, her first year in the California Legislature, she partnered with actresses and advocates Evan Rachel Wood and Esmé Bianco to pass The Phoenix
- [Jessica Rosenbeck](https://theccc.international/speaker/jessica-rosenbeck/): Jessica Rosenbeck is a domestic violence survivor and daughter of Jennifer Magnano, who was murdered by her estranged husband after many years of extreme coercive control and abuse. She is a dedicated spokesperson and advocate in her home state of Connecticut, where she and her siblings have worked tirelessly to pass two important domestic violence
- [Sue Haile](https://theccc.international/speaker/sue-haile/): Sue is a PhD Candidate at the University of Gloucestershire and is researching women’s safety and the voices of victims in Domestic Homicide Reviews. She worked closely with Professor Jane Monckton Smith on the intimate partner homicide timeline research project known as the 8 Stages of Domestic Violence Homicides, and they continue to work together
- [Dr. Karen Williams](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-karen-williams/): Dr. Karen Williams is a consultant psychiatrist who specialises in trauma and the founder of Doctors Against Violence Towards Women. She is on the Family Violence Network Committee for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
- [Shaneel Pathak](https://theccc.international/speaker/shaneel-pathak/): Shaneel Pathak is CEO and Co-founder of Zamplo, a mission-driven social enterprise that empowers people with the resources, knowledge, and tools they need to mobilize their own personalized health data. Through Shaneel’s lived experience caring for his late wife during her 4-year journey with metastasized cancer, Shaneel understood the significant challenges people and their family
- [Rod Dubrow-Marshall](https://theccc.international/speaker/mark-bosstel/): Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBPsS, is a Professor of Psychology who developed and is Co-Programme Leader for the MSc Psychology of Coercive Control, and is a Visiting Fellow in the Criminal Justice Hub at the University of Salford, UK. Rod has been researching the psychology of coercion and undue influence including in relationships, families and in
- [Nancy S. Erickson](https://theccc.international/speaker/katy-jones/): Nancy S. Erickson, (J.D. Brooklyn Law School, LL.M. Yale Law School, M.A. Forensic Psychology John Jay College of Criminal Justice) is a consultant on issues relating to law and psychology, particularly child custody evaluations and domestic violence. Nancy’s career spans over a decade of teaching law at top law schools in the country, eight years at
- [Dr. Jane Monckton Smith](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-jane-monckton-smith/): Jane Monckton Smith is a criminologist specializing in domestic homicide. A former police officer, she is professor of public protection at the University of Gloucestershire, and is recognized for her groundbreaking work on coercive control and stalking. In her new book, In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder, she lays out the eight stages
- [Jess Hill](https://theccc.international/speaker/jess-hill/): Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing and researching domestic abuse since 2014. She has been a producer for ABC Radio, a Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail, and an investigative journalist for Background Briefing. Jess was listed in Foreign Policy’s top 100 women to follow on Twitter and one of
- [Kelsey McKay](https://theccc.international/speaker/kelsey-mckay/): Kelsey McKay is a highly recognized national expert on the topic of criminal asphyxiation, interpersonal violence and complex cases including trafficking, child abuse and sexually motivated crimes. She was a prosecutor for 12 years, handling sex crimes, domestic violence, child abuse and homicide. She trains and consults nationally to help communities identify, develop and implement sustainable
- [Dr. Linda Dubrow-Marshall](https://theccc.international/speaker/amy-snow/): Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBACP (Accred.), Counselling and Clinical Psychologist is a co-founder (with Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall) of the Re-entry Therapy, Information and Referral Network (RETIRN), a private practice that provides services to individuals and families who have been affected by coercive control in relationships and in cultic and abusive groups. Along with Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall,
- [Joan Meier](https://theccc.international/speaker/joan-meier/): Joan Meier is a Professor of Law and Director of the National Family Violence Law Center at George Washington University Law School. Joan has been a law professor at GW Law for 29 years, founding three pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs. She has published widely on domestic violence, custody, and various
- [Kate Amber](https://theccc.international/speaker/john-robinson/): Kate Amber has experienced the devastation of domestic abuse (DA) and coercive control (CC) herself. She knows personally how DA and CC cuts across all nations, all economic levels, and affects the lives and livelihood of victims and their families, the health and safety of the community, and much more. She has also seen the well
- [David Magnano](https://theccc.international/speaker/david-magnano/): David Magnano is a domestic violence survivor and son of Jennifer Magnano, who was murdered by her estranged husband after many years of extreme coercive control and abuse. He is a dedicated spokesperson and advocate for law reform. David and his two sisters have worked to pass two important domestic violence laws in their mother's
- [Dr. Emma Katz](https://theccc.international/speaker/emma-katz/): Dr. Emma Katz is a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK, whose research focuses on fathers' coercive control of children and mothers. Her 2020 article When Coercive Control Continues to Harm Children: Post‐Separation Fathering, Stalking and Domestic Violence is free to read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.2611. Her book Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers’ Lives will be published by Oxford University Press
- [Mark Vicente](https://theccc.international/speaker/mark-vicente/): Mark Vicente is a South African born author, speaker, and award-winning writer, director, and producer. An accomplished cinematographer, Vicente made his directorial debut with the sleeper hit What The Bleep Do We Know?!, a documentary that explores a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness. Uniquely, Mark’s own journey as a member of the notorious
- [Danielle Pollack](https://theccc.international/speaker/danielle-pollack/): Danielle Pollack is the Policy Manager at the National Family Violence Law Center at GW Law in Washington D.C. and the originator of Kayden’s Law. She works in close collaboration with state and federal lawmakers, partner organizations, advocates, and families to create comprehensive child-centric policy reform and provide public education on family courts. She has
- [CV Harquail](https://theccc.international/speaker/cv-harquail/): CV Harquail, PhD, is an author, management scholar, consultant, writer, and tool maker who works with entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses to transform the world by applying feminism to business. She is a co-founder of FeministsAtWork and a feminist-in-residence at the Feminist Enterprise Commons community. CV recently published Feminism: A Key Idea in Business and
- [Grant Wyeth](https://theccc.international/speaker/grant-wyeth/): Grant Wyeth is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. He is currently a columnist for the Asia-Pacific Affairs publication The Diplomat, and writes a weekly newsletter for Australian Foreign Affairs magazine. Although his background is in political science and international relations, in recent years he has taken a keen interest in the family court and the
- [Alyson Messenger](https://theccc.international/speaker/alyson-messenger/): Alyson Messenger is the Managing Staff Attorney of Jenesse Center’s award-winning Legal Services Department. She leads Jenesse’s In-House Legal Services Program, the Domestic Violence Clinic at the Inglewood Courthouse, and Jenesse’s Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) programs at LAPD’s 77th, Southeast, and Southwest Divisions. Alyson is also responsible for implementing and administering Jenesse’s pro bono
- [XiaoWen Liang](https://theccc.international/speaker/xiaowen-liang/): XiaoWen Liang is a Chinese feminist activist, organizer, and lawyer who is part of the #MeToo movement in China. She founded a grassroots feminist non-governmental organization to combat inequality and is a practicing attorney in NYC where she continues to advocate for women's rights and fight against sexual harassment and domestic violence, as well as
- [Dr. Yee Man Louie](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-yee-man-louie/): Dr. Yee Man Louie's interest in technology and domestic violence led her to pursue a doctoral degree at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD research at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre there explored the emergent issue of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse with a specific focus on the lived experiences of women victim-survivors from culturally and
- [Joanne Roulston](https://theccc.international/speaker/joanne-roulston/): Joanne Roulston is a social worker, mediator, lawyer and former government executive with extensive experience in social and public health administration, policy and clinical practice, who teaches social work at Carleton University, and practices family law in Ottawa, Canada. Joanne is the former Director of the Government of Canada's National Council of Welfare, and provided
- [Dr. Jose Fernandez Ruiz](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-jose-fernandez-ruiz/): Dr. José Fernandez Ruiz is a legal researcher in criminal law and violence, and is currently researching criminalization via philosophical, social, and legal literature, with a particular interest in psychological and intrafamilial violence and multiculturalism in mental disorders. José has a PhD from University of Glasgow Law School, in addition to law degrees from University
- [Laura Richards](https://theccc.international/speaker/laura-richards/): Laura Richards is a world renowned Criminal Behavioral Analyst with degrees in forensic & legal psychology, as well as an international expert on coercive control and male violence, sexual violence, homicide and risk assessment. Laura is also a television & film producer (The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, The Case of: Caylee Anthony, Dirty John, The
- [Rose Garrity](https://theccc.international/speaker/rose-garrity/): Rose Garrity is the retired Founder and 30-year Executive Director of A New Hope Center (ANHC), an upstate New York organization providing a full range of services for survivors of abuse, sexual assault and other crimes. Rose developed, built and guided ANHC to do its work with anti-oppression consciousness, and a strong commitment to serve all victims
- [Chitra Raghavan](https://theccc.international/speaker/chitra-raghavan/): Chitra Raghavan conducts research on power dynamics in intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, sex trafficking and related traumatic outcomes. Dr. Raghavan obtained her doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and furthered her postdoctorate training at Yale University. She is a professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal
- [Commissioner Nicole Jacobs](https://theccc.international/speaker/nicole-jacobs/): Since her appointment to the role of Domestic Abuse Commissioner of the UK in 2019, Nicole Jacobs has put her 20 plus years of experience in domestic abuse policy and intervention to work, driving improvements to transform the response to domestic abuse in England and Wales. Nicole is committed to championing victims and survivors of
- [Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer](https://theccc.international/speaker/professor-deborah-tuerkehimer/): Deborah Tuerkheimer is a former prosecutor specializing in domestic violence, a legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She is the author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers published
- [Dr. Fabiana Severi](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-fabiana-severi/): Dr. Fabiana Severi is a professor at the Faculty of Law of Ribeirão Preto in Brazil where she recently founded the project Rewriting Judgements from Feminist Perspectives, for which Dr. Severi formed a network of Brazilian researchers and academics to conduct research into historical decisions, to find if anything in that decision could be different
- [Sandy Ross](https://theccc.international/speaker/sandy-ross/): Sandy Ross serves as President of the Board for California Protective Parents Association and as the Executive Director for Family Court Awareness Month. In both roles, she works collaboratively to address the most pressing child safety issues in child custody cases. She holds a Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology, and has been training supervised visitation
- [Marianne Hester](https://theccc.international/speaker/marianne-hester/): Marianne Hester is the Chair of Gender, Violence & International Policy at the University of Bristol, UK. She also serves as the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence. In 2012, she was awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to research and to the community in tackling domestic abuse, elected
- [Phyllis B Frank](https://theccc.international/speaker/phyllis-b-frank/): Phyllis B.Frank is a long-standing Rockland County feminist leader, known nationally for her pioneering work in the battered women’s movement and in perspectives and programs to address domestic violence offenders. Phyllis co-founded Rockland Family Shelter in 1979 (today the Center for Safety & Change), the NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the development of the
- [Dr. Natalie Jones](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-natalie-jones/): Dr. Natalie Jones, PsyD is a licensed psychotherapist in California. With a masters in clinical counseling psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and doctorate in clinical psychology from The California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University-San Francisco, she has extensive training, education, and work experience in the criminal justice, forensics, and
- [Christine Forner](https://theccc.international/speaker/christine-forner/): Christine Forner has been working with survivors of domestic abuse, child sexual abuse and other forms of severe abuse and violence for 35 years. She is a clinical social worker, working in private practice, specializing in dissociative disorder, complex post traumatic stress disorder and other early attachment harm. She is a past president of the
- [Dr. Molly Dragiewicz](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-molly-dragiewicz/): Dr. Molly Dragiewicz is an internationally award-winning criminologist who studies violence and gender. She is currently working on research about technology-facilitated coercive control and domestic violence and in the context of post-separation parenting. Dragiewicz won the 2019 Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime; 2018
- [Dr. Melissa Platt](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-melissa-platt/): Dr. Melissa Platt is a licensed clinical psychologist and therapist in Portland, Oregon with 15 years of experience specializing in helping survivors to heal from betrayal trauma. She has published over a dozen research and scholarly articles and co-edited a book on topics related to betrayal trauma. She serves on the Editorial Board of the
- [Dr. Carmen Gill](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-carmen-gill/): Dr. Carmen Gill is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick where she works in partnership with police agencies in Canada. Her research focuses on police intervention in Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Homicide and treatment of perpetrators and victims through the criminal justice system. Dr. Carmen Gill is currently
- [Dr. Peter Jaffe](https://theccc.international/speaker/dr-peter-jaffe/): Dr. Peter Jaffe is a psychologist, Professor Emeritus, and one of the founding Directors of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children in the Faculty of Education at Western University Ontario, Canada. He has co-authored eleven books, 40 chapters and over 80 articles related to domestic violence, the impact of
- [Jennifer Lahl](https://theccc.international/speaker/jennifer-lahl/): Jennifer Lahl is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, which seeks to to educate and inform members of the general public, thought leaders, and lawmakers on ethical issues in healthcare, biomedical research, and biotechnological advancement, through a variety of media platforms—documentary film, writing, speaking, interviews, social media. Lahl couples her
- [Laura Ramirez](https://theccc.international/speaker/laura-ramirez/): As Program Coordinator at Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and as a member of Af3irm, a transnational feminist organization, Laura Ramirez’s expertise is in the ways in which health care policy and in particular COVID-19 impacts human and sex trafficking, prostitution and pornography. In her roles, Laura tracks how the global demand for prostitution
- [Ryan Hart](https://theccc.international/speaker/ryan-hart/): Ryan Hart and his brother Luke share their family’s story of coercive control and domestic homicide in their autobiography, Remembered Forever, the searing account of their father's murder of their beloved mother and sister as the final act of a life-long campaign of coercive control. As survivors of a father who believed that his family

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