Kathryn Robb directs the Children’s Justice Campaign at Enough Abuse. She is a lawyer and legislative advocate who has been fighting to pass meaningful child sex abuse legislation across the country for over 2 decades. She is a national expert on Statute of Limitations reform/elimination aimed at providing justice for survivors, accountability for abusers and the prevention of sexual abuse for more children. She consults with lawmakers and governors to write and edit legislative language and has testified in over thirty jurisdictions as a national expert before legislative committees.
Dr. Alissa R. Ackerman is the co-founder and owner of Ampersands Restorative Justice. She is a “pracademic” and “survivor scholar” in that she incorporates her academic training, practitioner, and personal experiences with sexual violence in her work. Alissa has dedicated her career to understanding everything she can about sexual offending, including post-conviction sex crimes policies, the impacts of sexual victimization, and restorative options for those impacted by sexual harm. After participating in a life-changing vicarious restorative justice as a survivor, she began building and facilitating processes for others who sought restorative options as part of their own healing.
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Krystal McLeod is a practitioner and national advocate for using restorative approaches to address the root causes of violence and counteract the harms caused by our punitive criminal legal system. As Co-Executive Director of the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery, she leads a multidisciplinary team of practitioners, scholars, researchers, social workers, organizers, activists, artists, and survivors deeply committed to reimagining our nation’s response to violence.
Dr. Briana Barocas is a Research Professor at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and serves as the Co-Executive Director and Chief Research Officer at the Center on Violence and Recovery. She has two decades of experience in restorative justice applications to domestic violence and sexual assault in communities across the United States and currently serves as a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice’s Working Group on Gender-Based Violence and Restorative Justice.
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Francis Greenburger is the president and founder of the Greenburger Center for Justice. He is an active board member of several non profits including Art Omi (which he also founded), and New York Edge. In his for profit life, Francis is the CEO and Chairman of Time Equities Inc., a real estate multinational, and of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc., a literary agency.
