2016 Presenters

Professor Jennifer Wadwha

Professor Jennifer Wadwha Co-Presenter Jennifer Wadhwa teaches in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she supervises law...

Michelle Spradling

Michelle Spradling has been the Project Director of the Sexual Assault Interagency Council (SAIC) for approximately 7 years. SAIC is Denver’s Sexual Assault Response Team...

Arash Jahanian

Arash Jahanian is a civil rights and employment attorney. His practice includes fighting discrimination and harassment, as well as police brutality and prison abuse. He...

Alicia Aiken

Alicia Aiken Since 2011, Alicia Aiken has been the Director of Confidentiality Institute, a national organization empowering people to protect privacy for crime victims. Additionally,...

Sarah J Berg

Sarah J Berg Sarah J. Berg is the Director at The Phoenix Center at Auraria (PCA), a campus-based interpersonal violence advocacy and prevention office serving...

Megan McGee Bonta

Megan McGee Bonta Megan McGee Bonta has been the Community Integration Services Coordinator in the Western Slope office of Catholic Charities since 2009. She has...

Darlene Brace

Darlene Brace Darlene Brace LCSW, has worked with Alternative Horizons a non-profit Domestic Violence victim’s advocacy organization in Durango for 10 years. Currently she works...

Megan Burch

Megan Burch Megan Burch is an Outreach Advocate for Family Tree’s Domestic Violence Outreach Program. In this role, Megan provides domestic violence consultation for Jefferson...

Connie Burk

Connie Burk co-founded the first regional LGBT survivor services in Kansas over 20 years ago. Since 1997, she has directed The Northwest Network of Bisexual,...

Camilo Casas

Camilo Casas Camilo Casas has worked as a journalist as well as in a range of human services from public health interventions, to emergency medicine,...

Jackie Cash

Jackie Cash Jackie Cash holds a BA in Social Work from CSU and a JD from the University of Denver, College of Law and has...

Claire Chadwick

Claire Chadwick Claire Chadwick is a recent graduate from Ohio University with a degree in Gender and Social Justice. After graduating from Ohio University, Claire...

Lindsay Christopher

Lindsay Christopher Lindsay began working with survivors of domestic violence during her senior year of college after taking a Violence Against Women and Girls class. ...

Cheryl Davis

Cheryl Davis Cheryl Davis, M.A., LPC, Cheryl has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is a licensed psychotherapist in Colorado. She is the Manager of...

Gary Dawson

Gary Dawson & Amber Urban The presenters are Gary Dawson, Senior Deputy in the Special Victims Unit, who successfully used a facility dog during a...

Jennifer Eyl

Jennifer Eyl Jennifer Eyl is an Attorney and Licensed Professional Counselor who has been working in the fields of domestic and sexual violence since 1994. ...

Karen Foley

Karen Foley Karen Foley, MSW, CDP is a National Trainer on Domestic Violence, Chemical Dependency and Trauma. She works with the National Center on DV,...

Laura Franklin

Laura Franklin, Detective, Sex Crimes Unit, Denver Police Department: Laura Franklin joined the Denver Police Department in 2006 and was assigned to patrol in District...

Tina Hageman

Tina Hageman Tina O. Hageman, MSW, MBA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and Project Director...

Kazi Houston, MSW, JD

Kazi Houston, MSW, JD Kazi Houston, MSW, JD is the Client Services Manager at Project Safeguard, a domestic violence legal advocacy organization in the Denver...

Kristiana Huitron

Kristiana Huitron Kristiana Huitron, of CCADV, has been working for peace and equality for over a decade. She has worked as a Promotora de Salud...

Tanya Kearns

Tanya Kearns Tanya Kearns is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Yoga Teacher. Working as a trauma therapist and advocate, Tanya utilizes mindfulness and yoga...

Janet Kerr

Janet Kerr Janet Kerr has worked for the prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence since 1986. Ms. Kerr is a consultant providing training and technical...

Tomei Kuehl, MPA

Tomei Kuehl, MPA (Sexual Violence Prevention (SVP) Unit Supervisor). Tomei joined the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in January 2013. She began her...

Professor Tamara Kuennen

Professor Tamara Kuennen Tamara Kuennen teaches a litigation clinic in which law students represent survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She is also a board...

Ashlee Lewis

Ashlee Lewis Ashlee Lewis, Executive Director, has been serving at DVI for over four years. During the 4 years, she worked as Victim Advocate, Statistician,...

Terry Glenn Liley

Terry Glenn Liley Terry Glenn Lilley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. ...

Andrew Luxen

Andrew Luxen, Deputy District Attorney, Sex Assault Unit, 2nd Judicial District: Andrew Luxen is a senior deputy district attorney with the Denver District Attorney’s Office....

Casey Malsam

Casey Malsam Casey Malsam has worked as a Victim Advocate at Colorado State University for 5 years. She also teaches as an Adjunct Professor for...

Amy Miller

Amy Miller Amy Miller is the CCADV Public Policy Director. Since 2008, Amy has passed 9 domestic violence bills and influenced hundreds of state and...

Andrea Mohamedbhai Andrea’s practice area currently focuses on family immigration, employment discrimination and civil rights. She regularly works close with Spanish-speaking clientele to ensure that...

Qusair Mohamedbhai

Qusair Mohamedbhai Mr. Mohamedbhai advocates for the rights of employees in the workplace and for the civil rights of all individuals against governmental and institutional...

Agueda Morgan

Jessica Naberhaus

Jessica Naberhaus Jessica is a Senior Social Caseworker with Denver’s DHS Adult Protective Services. Jessica has worked with the aging population for seven years in...

Barbara Paradiso

Barbara Paradiso Barbara Paradiso has worked on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence for more than thirty years as an advocate, administrator and...

Gosia Pastusiak

Gosia Pastusiak Gosia joined MESA as the Volunteer Coordinator in March 2015. In her role at MESA, Gosia oversees the recruitment, training and sustaining volunteer...

D’Wanna Powell, MA, LPCC

Mrs. Powell is passionate about combatting all forms of oppression and providing hope and healing to survivors of trauma. This passion inspired her to apply...

David River

DAVID B. RIVER is the Deputy Director of Program Development for the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and former Co-Facilitator of the Santa Fe...

Jeannie Rodriguez

Jeannie Rodriguez Jeannie Rodriguez graduated from Gallaudet University in Washington DC. She worked in DV/SA field for approximately ten years working with Deaf and hard...

Tsunemi Maehara Rooney

Tsunemi Maehara Rooney Tsunemi Maehara Rooney, M.A. Licensed Professional Counselor with a B.A. in Psychology from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998 and Maters...

Gary Sanford

Gary Sanford Mr. Sanford is currently Executive Director of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI). MDHI is the continuum of care for the seven county...

Angela Sillas-Green

Angela Sillas-Green Angela has her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health and her bachelor’s in Psychology. She is currently a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She...

Raana Simmons

Judge Spahn

Judge Spahn became a Denver County Court judge in October 2014. During her first year, she presided over Denver’s County’s designated civil protection order courtroom. ...

Lynne Sprague

Lynne Sprague Lynne is the Director of Advocacy and Co-Executive Director at Survivors Organizing for Liberation (SOL). A Texas transplant, Lynne became political around her...

Pat Tessmer

Pat Tessmer Pat Tessmer is the CCADV Program Director, providing training, technical assistance and advocacy. Before joining CCADV in 2010, Pat spent nearly 20 years...

Kelley Therese

Kelley Therese Kelley is a Violence Prevention Educator at SPAN, working with youth organizers to promote social justice and resist violence. She started engaging in...

Kristin Toombs

Kristin Toombs is the Homeless Programs Manager at Colorado’s Department of Local Affairs, Division of Housing. The Homeless Programs Team provides leadership on homelessness and...

Guadalupe Uribe-Joyner

Guadalupe Uribe-Joyner Guadalupe was born and educated in in Mexico City. She has a bachelors degree in Social Work and 2 years in Social Anthropology....

Sharon Villanueva

Sharon Villanueva Sharon Villanueva works for the County Sheriffs of Colorado as the Project Manager for the Colorado VINE Program. She came to this role...

Lydia Waligorski

Lydia Waligorski Lydia Waligorski is the Public Policy Director for the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and has been an advocate and counselor for survivors...

Laura Wolf

In her practice, Laura advocates on behalf of employees facing labor law violations and discrimination in the workplace as well as for individuals suffering from...

Kathryn Woods

Kathryn Woods Kathryn Woods, MSW MPA LCSW is the Assistant Director for Victim Services at the Women and Gender Advocacy Center at Colorado State University....

Victoria Ybanez

Victoria Ybanez Ms. Ybanez (Navajo, Apache and Mexican) has been working to end violence against American Indian/Alaskan Native women for 30 years. She developed and...