Vicki Banyard is an associate professor in Psychology, Justice Studies, and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is also co-director of Prevention Innovations: Research and Practices for Ending Violence Against Women on Campus. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and has post-doctoral research and clinical training in work with survivors of interpersonal violence. Her research focuses on understanding the long-term mental health consequences of interpersonal violence, especially factors related to resilience among survivors. Her work also focuses on community approaches to sexual violence prevention and intervention. She has been involved with the design and evaluation of "Bringing in the Bystander" a sexual assault prevention program that gives all community members a role to play in ending sexual violence.

Suzanne Brown-McBride began her anti-rape activism as a community educator and crisis line advocate. Ms. Brown-McBride went on to manage two sexual assault and domestic violence agencies that served urban, rural and tribal populations in the Pacific Northwest. Immediately prior to arriving at CALCASA in 2006, Ms. Brown-McBride served as the Executive Director of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, an association of sexual assault crisis centers in Washington State.

Throughout her career, Ms. Brown-McBride has focused her efforts towards the development of effective public policy related to sexual assault victimization, the supervision of sex offenders, and the propagation of effective community responses to violence. Ms. Brown-McBride has developed curricula and media tools to raise awareness and increase activism around the issue of violence against women, and communities. She is also a frequent trainer and speaker on a variety of criminal justice and organizational development topics.

Marci Diamond, M.P.A., has been the Director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Survivor Services for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health since 1995. Her responsibilities include oversight of Massachusetts’ statewide system of rape crisis centers and related sexual and domestic violence prevention initiatives, including the Rape Prevention Education Grant program. She co-founded the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership, served on the steering committee of the Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Assault and Abuse and co-chaired the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence Immigrant and Refugee Subcommittee. Currently she chairs the Massachusetts Coalition for Sex Offender Management and serves on numerous statewide and national advisory groups including the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Advisory Council. Prior to joining state service, Ms. Diamond managed a shelter for battered women and their children and taught adolescent and adult students in Spanish and English. She remains active in related social justice/human rights movements and has broad board experience with organizations focused on affordable housing, children’s issues, community organizing and collaborative fundraising for non-profit social justice groups. She is the parent of one daughter

Anna Fairclough is a lifelong Alaskan. She has lived in Eagle River since 1985 and has two sons, Cory and Garret. Anna is a graduate of the Anchorage Public School District and served on the Anchorage Assembly for eight years prior to being elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives in 2006.  Anna represents District 17; the "heart" of Eagle River, including downtown Eagle River, Skyline Drive and a portion of Eagle River Valley.

Previous to her election to the House of Representatives, Anna was the Executive Director of STAR - Standing Together Against Rape - and continues to work closely with the non-profit community. Anna has also worked for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1496 as the membership service coordinator and is familiar with labor organization issues.

Anna has been active in numerous community organizations over the years including service on; the Anchorage Assembly as Past Chair and Vice Chair, the Mayor's 9/11 Task Force, AMATS Assembly Liaison, and Task Force for the Convention Center under the Wuerch Administration. Anna serves on the National Sexual Violence & Resource Committee (NSVRC) and is a Founding Board Member of the Alaska Veterans Memorial Museum (AVMM). She is also a member of the Anchorage Republican Women.

Anna serves as Co-Chair of the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee, Vice-Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee, and is a member of the Health Education & Social Services, Transportation, Military & Veterans Affairs and Rules Committees.

Robert Franklin has worked on issues of sexual violence since the early 1990s when he was an advocate for a rape crisis center and coordinated a batter's intervention program at a domestic violence agency. As a college administrator, he presented a number of workshops on the state, regional, and national level on issues from alcohol abuse prevention, the male gender role, and why/how to involve men in sexual violence prevention. Currently, he is the male outreach coordinator at Virginia Department of Health continuing efforts to involve men in sexual violence prevention.

Kellie Greene is a victims’ rights activist who works tirelessly to influence policy and raise social awareness concerning issues of sexual violence. She is the Founder and Director of Speaking Out About Rape (SOAR), a non-profit organization dedicated to educating society about sexual violence and ensuring victims’ rights are protected in societal, legal, and medical settings. Ms. Greene also founded Operation Freefall, a day of sky diving to raise awareness of sexual violence. She serves on the advisory board of Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) and is a national spokesperson for the Pfizer/YWCA Moving Past Trauma – PTSD Community Outreach Program. She has appeared on numerous television talk shows and news programs including The Today Show and 60 Minutes and has been featured in national publications such as Glamour Magazine and Fitness Magazine. Her policy work includes co-authoring the Florida Sexual Predator Prosecution Act of 2000, contributing to the development of a national protocol on sexual assault forensic exams for the Office on Violence Against Women, and participating in a recent White House Roundtable discussion on Violence Against Women.

Jessica Mindlin, Esq., is Senior Legal Counsel for the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC), a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the nation’s legal response to rape and sexual assault.  Jessica staffs the VRLC’s Portland (Oregon) office. Prior to joining the VRLC, she was the Senior Staff Attorney for the National Crime Victim Law Institute and the Center for Law & Public Policy on Sexual Violence, and a clinical instructor at Lewis and Clark Law School. Jessica has served as the statewide Support Unit Attorney for the Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Services of Oregon, Coordinator of the Oregon Supreme Court-Oregon State Bar Task Force on Gender Fairness, and Legal Access Project Director for the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Prior to law school, Jessica worked as a rape victim advocate, counselor and legal advocate for battered women, and a counselor for runaway youth. Jessica graduated with honors from the University of  Washington School of Law. She is the co-author and editor of "Rights and Remedies: Meeting the Civil Legal Needs of Sexual Violence Survivors," and author of "Child Sexual Abuse and Criminal Statutes of Limitation: A Model For Reform," 65 Wash. L.Rev.(1990), and other publications.

Kimber J. Nicoletti, MSW is the Director of Outreach for the CARe Initiative in Indiana where she provides statewide sexual violence prevention education/ outreach and technical assistance for underserved communities in the state of Indiana. Kimber’s experiences as a survivor of sexual violence and as a therapist working with victims provide her with insight into barriers and challenges in providing culturally-relevant sexual violence prevention services.

Kimber serves as the Chair of the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC).    She is the President of the Latino Faculty and Staff Association at Purdue University.  Kimber has advocated for the Migrant Farm Worker community for over 18 years and was awarded the Cesar Chavez “Si Se Puede” Award in 2003 for her sexual violence prevention education work in this community.  Kimber uses the arts to express herself and is the mother of three daughters.

Mary Onama has served as Executive Director of the Victim Services Center of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania since 1998. Previously she was Director of Social Services at Lincoln Hospital; Director of Child Protective Services for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in New York and has been a long-time consultant for the Child Welfare League of America. Ms. Onama also serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and is a certified competency-based trainer for the PA Department of Public Welfare

Jose Luis holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico and studies on Community Planning and Social Marketing from the Mount Carmel institute in Haifa, Israel and Human Settlements from the Korea Research Institute in Seoul, South Korea.  He has been employed at the Center for Nonviolence in Fort Wayne since November 2002 as the Latino Programs Coordinator.  He is involved locally and statewide in developing programs for Latinos and men in general.  He is a trainer for the Duluth curriculum national training “Creating a Process of Changes for Men who Batter” and a bilingual Trainer/Supervisor for the Batterers Intervention Program in Indiana.  He serves as an advisor for the Latino Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.  He is part of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center Advisory Council.  He also teaches the innovative Reality Spanish Program at Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne and is also part of the Hispanic Advisory Council for Big Brothers Big Sisters. Jose Luis served in the Ministry of Education for the Republic of El Salvador from 1993 to 2001, planning nationwide social marketing strategies, facilitating focus groups, and training teachers to become facilitators for educational projects.

Delilah Rumburg has served as Executive Director of PCAR since 1995. She has been responsible for overseeing PCAR's tremendous growth and outreach to communities not only in Pennsylvania, but throughout the nation.

At the national level, Ms. Rumburg was appointed by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the Department of Defense Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies, where she served as co-chair. In addition, she previously served as a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on Violence Against Women, co-chaired by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt. She was first appointed to the NAC in 1996 when it was convened under Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala. Ms. Rumburg is the only member of the committee to have served under Attorneys General Janet Reno, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez.

Ms. Rumburg has helped to shape national policy on violence against women by participating in congressional briefings at our nation's capitol. In 2002, she spoke before Congress at Lifetime Television’s Stop Violence Against Women Congressional Briefing “Advocates Speak Out;” in 2003 she participated in Lifetime TV’s Stop Violence Against Women Congressional Briefing “Women and Men Speak Out” as well as participated in a White House Round Table on Violence Against Women. Again in 2004, she participated in Lifetime TV’s Congressional Briefing “10th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act;” and in 2005 as co-chair of Department of Defense Task Force, she presented the report on “Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies.”  Additionally, in 2006 Ms. Rumburg presented testimony about “Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women in the Military and at the Academies.”

Under the Bush Administration, Mrs. Rumburg has participated in Administrative Briefings with Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004 and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2005.

Also on the national level, she has served as an Advisory Board member of the National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center and served on the National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium. Additionally, Ms. Rumburg was a member of the Advisory Council of the Joint Center of Violence and Victim Studies at Washburn University.

At the state level, Ms. Rumburg is a gubernatorial appointee to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). In addition she serves on the Advisory Council of Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities, and is currently chair of the Pennsylvania Victim Services Advisory Committee. 

Previously, Ms. Rumburg was a gubernatorial appointee to the Governors Partnership for Safe Children, the chairwoman of the Pennsylvania STOP Violence Against Women Advisory Committee and served on the Evaluation Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias and was a member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency's Accreditation, Certification and Training (ACT) Subcommittee.

A popular keynote speaker at numerous national conferences on sexual violence, Ms. Rumburg was recognized as Communicator of the Year (2001) by the Harrisburg chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.  In 2003, she was recognized as one of Harrisburg YWCA’s Women of Excellence and was awarded the Mae Carvell Award from the Harrisburg Venture Club. Ms. Rumburg also received the 2004 Signature Services Award from Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) in Philadelphia. In 2006, she was a recipient of the National Crime Victim Service Award presented by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Departments, U.S. Department of Justice.

She is professionally certified as a fund raising executive through the Association of Fund Raising Professionals and also holds certification from the National Planned Giving Institute through the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Prior to joining PCAR, Ms. Rumburg served as Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving for the Pennsylvania affiliate of the American Heart Association from 1990 to 1995 and as executive director of Access York, one of Pennsylvania's most successful battered women's programs, from 1981 to 1990.

Ms. Rumburg attended Pennsylvania State University.

Cassandra Thomas, recognized as a leading national expert on sexual assault, began her involvement with the Houston Area Women’s Center as a volunteer in 1981, joined the staff in 1985 and became Director of the rape crisis program in 1987. In 1997 she was named Senior Vice President of Direct Services, and two years later was promoted to Senior Vice President of the Center.

Thomas is an inspirational keynote speaker and her expertise in sexual and domestic violence is frequently sought out by national media. She has appeared on national news programs such as The Today Show, World News Tonight, Prime Time, and 20/20 and has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Glamour, and Ebony.

Thomas serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Council on Family Violence, the Advisory Council for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, and the National Campus Rape Project. She served on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Sexual Assault Committee and is a member of the Women of Color Network and the Center for Disease Control’s Sexual Assault Working Group. She was also appointed to the Crime Victim’s Institute by Texas Attorney genera, John Cornyn.

Clema S. Williams-Lewis has been a resident of St. Croix for twenty-five years, and has two sons. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and a Master’s in Counselor’s Education. She is also a nationally certified counselor.

Ms. Williams-Lewis has been with the Women’s Coalition of St. Croix since 1982. She serves as the Coalition’s Co- Director, as well as in other capacities including, Volunteer Advocate, Chairperson of Advocates, Coordinator of Training and Support Groups, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors (2 years), Supervisor of the Summer Staff, and Assistant Director. She also conducts a Support Group for Adult Survivors of Incest.

Clema Williams-Lewis has numerous community and national affiliations; she serves as a member of the Judges Committee of the St. Croix Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc; Chairperson of the Judges Committee for the Crucian Christmas Festival; Chairperson of the St. Croix Child Abuse and Neglect Task Force, Co-Chair for Virgin Islands Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council; and Secretary of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Supervisory Board. Ms. Williams-Lewis is also a member of the Women of Color Domestic Violence Network Steering Committee, and the American Counseling Association.  

Nichole Witt is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and resides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. She was born and raised on the reservation and graduated high school from St. Francis Indian School. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and American Indian Studies from the University of South Dakota (USD). She began her master’s degree program at USD. In 2002, Nichole began working for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS) as their Grant Manager. Ms. Witt develops, writes and implements federal grants received by WBCWS. She works with tribal agencies to develop, write and administer the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s Office on Violence Against Women grants which include the STOP, Arrest, Tribal Coalition, Safety for Indian Women and Grants to Indian Tribal Governments grants. She is responsible for the implementation of the grant’s goals and objectives, coordinating the criminal justice system response, victim and health services, and completing OVW grant correspondence and reporting.