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September 19 - 21, 2022 | Pittsburgh, PA
join us!
September 19 - 21, 2022
Pittsburgh, PA
Speakers
Please note: speaker participation remains subject to official confirmation. Information on speakers remains subject to change.
Brenda Abdelall
Assistant Secretary for Partnership & Engagement, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Brenda F. Abdelall was appointed to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Partnership and Engagement at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on August 1, 2022.
Richard Aborn
President, Citizens Crime Commission of New York City
Richard M. Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a non-partisan non-profit organization with multidisciplinary expertise that works to improve public safety through innovation.
Trish Adlesic
Director and Producer
A Pittsburgh native, Trish Adlesic is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning documentary producer/director. She teamed with director Josh Fox and HBO to produce Gasland and Gasland Part II.
Meryl Kirshner Ainsman
Executive Director and Trustee, Philip Chosky Foundation
Meryl Kirshner Ainsman is the business manager of the law firm of Ainsman Levine, LLC, and the Executive Director and Trustee of the Philip Chosky Foundation.
Jennifer Akin
Jennifer Akin is Blue Star Families’ first Chief of Staff, serving as a trusted advisor and brainstorming partner to the CEO and executive team as they lead Blue Star Families through a critical high-growth period.
Feyisola Akintola
Manager, Immigration Affairs for the City of Pittsburgh
Feyisola Akintola is the Manager of Immigration Affairs for the City of Pittsburgh. In her role Feyisola is charged with overseeing the city’s Welcoming Pittsburgh initiative which aims to build bridges across cultures.
Amarnath Amarasingam
Assistant Professor, Queen’s University
Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.
Abdullah Antepli
Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations; Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Imam Antepli is a globally acknowledged scholar and leader of cross-religious and cross-cultural dialogue in American higher education and in non-profit world.
Marc-André Argentino
Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), PhD Candidate, Concordia University
Marc-André Argentino is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Montreal, in the Individualized program where he is supervised by professors in the departments of Theological Studies, the Centre for Engineering in Society and the Institute of Information System Engineering.
Raney Aronson-Rath
Editor-in-Chief & Executive Producer, FRONTLINE, PBS News
Raney Aronson-Rath is the editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series, and is a leading voice on the future of journalism. Aronson-Rath oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed investigative reporting on air and online, and directs the series’ editorial vision — executive producing more than 20 in-depth documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country and the world.
Tina Atherall
D.S.W., LMSW, Chief Executive Officer, PsychArmor
Dr. Tina Atherall is a social innovation strategist with a concentration in nonprofit leadership. She is the CEO of PsychArmor and works with communities educating and advocating for critical support for those who have served and their families.
Zack Baddorf
Military Veterans in Journalism
Zack Baddorf is a national security and foreign policy professional with more than 20 years experience on the frontlines of the world’s conflicts, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central African Republic, Crimea, Kashmir and the West Bank.
Lauren Bairnsfather
Executive Director, Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather has served as the Executive Director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh since 2015 and has been involved with the effort to rebuild the Tree of Life since 2019.
Patricia M. Barron
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Military Community and Family Policy
Mrs. Patricia “Patty” Barron was appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy in January 2021.
James Barrett
Director, Clinical Support Unit at Cambridge Police Department
Dr. Barrett is the Director of the Clinical Support Unit at the Cambridge Police Department and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School.
Nick Bauer
Public Policy Manager, Google
Nick Bauer leads Google’s global public policy work on hate speech, harassment, violent extremism, and terrorism. In that capacity, he advises Google and YouTube’s teams on relevant initiatives and engages with governments and civil society experts around the world.
Heidi Beirich
Co-Founder, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
Heidi Beirich is the Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
Michael Bernstein
Managing Partner, Woodland Management
Michael is a Managing Partner of Woodland Management, his family’s investment and family office which Michael has led since 2015. As the General Partner of Partners Edge Funds, a private equity and venture-focused investment fund launched in 2022, Michael oversees the Fund’s investment committee and sits on several portfolio companies’ Boards.
Jeffrey S. Binkley
Founder, Maura’s Voice
Jeff and Margaret Binkley founded Maura’s Voice in the wake of the November 2018 shooting at a Tallahassee, Florida Hot Yoga studio that took the life of their daughter Maura, then a 21-year-old senior at Florida State University.
Jason Blazakis
Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
Jason Blazakis is a professor at MIIS, where he focuses on threat financing, sanctions, violent extremism, and special operations related research. He is also the Director of MIIS’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, where he directs research on domestic terrorism, terrorism finance, recruitment, propaganda and the use of special operations to counter transnational threats.
Pastor Mark E. Blue
President, Buffalo Branch NAACP
Pastor Mark E. Blue was born in the City of Buffalo. He joined the United States Air Force Reserve in 1983 and retired in 2003 with the rank of Master Sergeant.
Kurt Braddock
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Communications, American University
American University. Kurt also holds faculty fellow positions at the SOC’s Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) and the Center for University Excellence’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).
William Braniff
Director, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland
William Braniff is the Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and a Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland.
Elana Broitman
Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, The Jewish Federation of North America
Elana Broitman is SVP of Public Affairs at Jewish Federations of North America, where she directs advocacy efforts and government affairs.
Thomas Brzozowski
Counsel for Domestic Terrorism, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Thomas E. Brzozowski currently serves as the Counsel for Domestic Terrorism in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Kim Shayo Buchanan
Senior Research Scholar at Center for Policing Equity
Kim Shayo Buchanan is the Senior Research Scholar at Center for Policing Equity in New York. She is a legal academic whose work has focused on race, gender, and criminal justice reform, as well as prisoners’ rights and reproductive and sexual health.
Christopher Buckley
Former extremist and interventionist at Parents for Peace, is an Afghanistan war veteran.
Sara Winegar Budge
Psy.D., Program Director, ExitUSA, Life After Hate
Sara Winegar Budge, PsyD is the Program Director of ExitUSA at Life After Hate, an organization that provides services to support disengagement, deradicalization, and reintegration of individuals involved in violent far right extremist movements.
Mary Bunn
PhD, LCSW, Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mary Bunn, PhD, LCSW is a Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry.
Judge Kevin S. Burke
Senior District Judge Hennepin County, Minnesota
Kevin Burke is a Senior District Judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota. He is one of the most recognized leaders within the American judiciary. Judge Burke was elected for four terms as Chief Judge and three terms as Assistant Chief Judge.
Jeremy Burton
Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC)
Jeremy Burton joined the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC) as Executive Director in October 2011, after playing leadership roles in many Jewish organizations as well as government and political campaigns.
Jeremy Butler
Jeremy is the Chief Executive Officer but joined the staff of IAVA back in 2015 where he worked in various capacities with the Development Team helping with fundraising.
Lucy Calladine
Lucy is YouTube’s Product Public Policy lead for EMEA. In this role, she advises YouTube on product policy implications including content issues relating to online content regulation and the policy areas of hate speech, terrorism and violent extremism.
Alison Campbell
Alison Campbell, Senior Technical Advisor at Internews, has more than 20 years of experience in the media development sector, working with local media outlets in humanitarian and health emergencies, democratic transitions, and conflict and post conflict scenarios.
Debra Caplan
Executive-in-Residence, The Forbes Funds
Debra L. Caplan is an Executive-in-Residence at The Forbes Funds, where she provides coaching and technical assistance for nonprofits in the areas of governance and management. She also serves as an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations.
Emma Cardeli
Ph.D, Attending Psychologist & Research Associate, Trauma & Community Resilience Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Cardeli has over a decade of clinical experience working with trauma-affected children, adolescents, adults, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds and in a myriad of clinical settings.
Jennifer Carson
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Central Missouri
Dr. Jennifer Varriale Carson is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Director of the Honors College at the University of Central Missouri. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Maryland in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Humberto Carolo
Humberto is the Executive Director at White Ribbon. He is a gender-based violence prevention specialist with 20 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector with expertise in gender equality, human rights, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ2+ advocacy, community development and multi-sectoral partnerships.
Aloke S. Chakravarty
Partner, Snell & Wilmer, Former Federal Prosecutor
Aloke Chakravarty is the co-chair of Snell & Wilmer’s Investigations, Government Enforcement and White Collar Protection practice group and the firm’s Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Privacy practice.
Stephanie Chau
Stephanie Chau is an experienced litigator and former federal prosecutor who represents clients in highly regulated industries, including telecommunications, technology, medical devices, pharmaceutical, health care, entertainment, insurance, financial services, consumer goods, and retail.
Joseph Chenelly
National Executive Director, American Veterans (AMVETS)
Joseph Chenelly is the national executive director of American Veterans (AMVETS), the nation’s most inclusive Congressionally-chartered veterans service organization, representing the interests of more than 19 million American veterans and their families.
Julie Chernov Hwang
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Goucher College
Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College.
Myrieme Churchill
Executive Director, Parents for Peace
Myrieme Churchill has over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, working in variety of settings and with a range of populations in Europe, and the U.S.
Jennifer Ciardelli
Director of the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership, United States Holocaust Museum
Jennifer Ciardelli directs the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership.
Colin Clarke
Policy & Research Director, The Soufan Group
Colin Clarke is the Policy & Research Director at the Soufan Group. Prior to this role, he was an assistant teaching professor in the Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gordon Clubb
Lecturer in International Security, University of Leeds
Dr. Gordon Clubb is Associate Professor in Terrorism at the University of Leeds in the UK. His current research uses experimental survey methods to examine how to build community support for terrorist reintegration and for terrorism prevention programmes.
Kathryn Spitz Cohan
Executive Director, Film Pittsburgh
Kathryn Spitz Cohan has been Executive Director of Film Pittsburgh since 2001. From 2003 to 2007, she also was the Artistic / Education Director of Shakespeare-in-the-Schools and a Teaching Artist at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jared Cohon
University Professor and President Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University
Jared L. Cohon is the President Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and a University Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy.
Michael Colaresi
Director of the Pitt Disinformation Lab
Michael Colaresi is the William S. Dietrich II Professor of Political Science, Research and Academic Director of the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security, and the Director of the Pitt Disinformation Lab.
Dawn Collins
Activist
Since 2017, when her son, 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, was violently murdered in an unprovoked attack on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, by a follower of an Alt Reich Facebook group, Collins has been a leader in the fight against hate crimes, particularly in the State of Maryland.
Richard Collins
Activist
Richard W. Collins Jr. is a Senior Specialist in the field of Emergency Management with primary expertise in policy development and review providing oversight of emergency preparedness and response guidance governing state, local, tribal and territorial jurisdictions in communities with commercial nuclear power facilities.
Terrence M. Connors
Partner, Connors LLP
Terrence M. Connors is a graduate of Canisius College where he was elected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities and named Captain of the Varsity Basketball Team.
Robert J. Contee, III
Chief, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C.
On December 22, 2020, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she selected Robert J. Contee III, to serve as Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Norman Conti
Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Norman Conti is a professor of sociology and the coordinator of Duquesne’s Social Justice Association. Along with six men serving life sentences at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh, Dr. Conti founded the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice (EBTT).
Susan Corbett
Former First Lady of Pennsylvania
Susan Corbett served as First Lady of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015. During her tenure, she was an active advocate for arts and cultural institutions and incorporating the arts in public education.
Jiore Craig
Head of Elections and Digital Integrity, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Jiore Craig is the Head of Elections and Digital Integrity at ISD where she leads research and advisory work around online threats to elections and public opinion.
Blyth Crawford
Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, PhD Candidate, King’s College, London
Blyth Crawford is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation where she specialises in far-right online social movements. She is also a PhD candidate at King’s College London where she studies far-right radicalisation within online forums utilising an ethnographic method.
Federica D’Alessandra
Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) & Executive Director, Oxford Program on International Peace and Security (IPS)
Federica D’Alessandra is the Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC), and the founding Executive Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security at the Blavatnik School of Government, where she focuses on international law, foreign policy, and global governance issues, and teaches courses covering the same subjects.
Jacob Davey
Head of Research & Policy, Far-right and Hate Movements
Jacob Davey is Head of Research & Policy for Far-right and Hate Movements at ISD. Jacob has managed projects focusing on online hate speech, the international far-right and political violence.
Celia Davies
Celia Davies oversees Moonshot’s interventions and safeguarding programming, with specialisms in CVE and GBV interventions and conflict-affected regions.
Jessica Dawson
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Army Cyber Institute, West Point, New War Research Consortium
Jessica Dawson holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University and is her research is focused on the digital disruption of social processes, with recent focus on microtargeting enabled manipulation of individual’s choices.
Cynthia M. Deitle
Director & Associate General Counsel, Civil Rights
Cynthia M. Deitle is a Director, Associate General Counsel of Civil Rights at Meta.
Joshua Donner
Executive Director, The Shapira Foundation
Josh Donner is a seasoned non-profit and philanthropy professional. As Executive Director of The Shapira Foundation, he works closely with the Foundation Chair and President to develop and advance philanthropic investments that leverage their extended philanthropic and civic interests and entrepreneurial approach to achieving impact.
Richard (Dic) Donohue, Jr.
Policy Researcher (PhD, Criminology and Criminal Justice), Director of the RAND Center for Quality Policing
Dr. Donohue is the Director of the RAND Center for Quality Policing, where his research focuses on topics critical to policing and homeland security.
Catrina Doxsee
Associate Director and Fellow with Transnational Threats Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Catrina Doxsee is associate director and associate fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she analyzes international and domestic terrorism and the irregular activities of countries such as Iran, Russia, and China.
Michael Duffin
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism
Michael Duffin is a non-resident fellow at Ghent University’s Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy and a senior advisor on Countering Violent Extremism in the U.S.
Raleigh Duttweiler
Director, Outreach at the National Military Family Association (NMFA)
Raleigh Duttweiler is passionate about public relations, social media, and the power of social technologies to build authentic relationships that lift up a community.
David Eisenman
Professor-in-Residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA
David Eisenman, MD, MSHS, (B.A, University of Pennsylvania, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, M.S.H.S. Fielding UCLA School of Public Health) is Professor in Residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, where he is the Director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters.
Heidi Ellis
Ph.D, Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC), Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Medical School Director
Dr. Ellis is the Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC) and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Laura Ellsworth
Co-Chair, Eradicate Hate Global Summit; Partner-in-Charge of Global Community Service Initiatives, Jones Day
Laura Ellsworth is a partner at Jones Day, which has more than 2500 lawyers in 43 offices on 5 continents. Having served as the Partner-in-Charge of the Pittsburgh Office for over a decade, she then became Jones Day’s first Partner-in-Charge of Global Community Service Initiatives, spearheading the Firm’s rule of law initiatives around the world.
Zeneta Everhart
Zeneta Everhart is the mother of Zaire Goodman, a grocery store worker who survived the tragic shooting at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo on May 14, 2022.
Eric Eversole
President, Hiring Our Heroes, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Eric Eversole, a retired U.S. Navy Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps Captain, leads the day-to-day operations of Hiring Our Heroes, a nationwide effort to develop and promote military talent in the United States.
Jenna Fagan
Program Officer, REPAIR Program, Auschwitz Institute
Jenna Fagan joined the Auschwitz Institute in February of 2022 as the Program Officer for the REPAIR program. She received an M.A. in Holocaust & Genocide Studies from West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 2018.
Emily Farris
Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University
Emily Farris is an associate professor of political science at Texas Christian University.
Eric Feinberg
Vice President of Content Moderation, Coalition for a Safer Web
Eric Feinberg worked in the advertising industry for over 30 years – working on behalf of Fortune 500 companies sponsoring major sporting and entertainment events.
Maggie Feinstein
Director, 10.27 Healing Partnership
Maggie Feinstein is a master’s level therapist who has distinguished herself in the field of integrated mental health, or working within the medical community to provide brief interventions within the context of medical visits since 2009.
Jeff Finkelstein
President and CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
Jeff Finkelstein has served as President/CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh since 2004. He is President of JPRO, a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh and the Wexner Heritage Program, a past Chair of the Large City Executives Group of JFNA, and a board member of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
Dave Fortier
President, One World Strong, Practitioner’s Network
Dave is a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Dave was running his very first marathon to help support a dear friend dealing with cancer when he was injured by the first bomb.
Ross Frenett
Founder & CEO, Moonshot
Ross Frenett is Founder and CEO of Moonshot, a company working to end online harms using evidence, ethics and human rights.
David S. Frey
Ph.D., Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Co-Chair, Diversity & Inclusion Minor, United States Military Academy
Dr. David Frey is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (CHGS) and founding Co-chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor at the US Military Academy at West Point.
Alexander Friedfeld
Investigative Researcher, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Alex Friedfeld is an Investigative Researcher with the ADL’s Center on Extremism where he monitors anti-government extremism, with a particular focus on the militia movement and the boogaloo movement.
David Friedman
Executive Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs/Chief Compliance Officer, Boston Red Sox
David Friedman joined the Red Sox in 2010. He handles a variety of legal matters, including regulatory compliance issues and oversight of litigation, and assists with the club’s interactions with Major League Baseball and other teams on legal-related issues.
Hala Furst
Hala V. Furst Associate Director for Strategic Engagement in the DHS Center for Prevention Programs and Partnership, leading the Office’s efforts to engage with national level stakeholder organizations to enable and encourage local prevention efforts to address violent extremism
Jordan Galkowski
Program Manager, Evolve Program & Exit Specialist, Invent2Prevent
Jordan Galkowski is the co-founder of FUSE, an interactive learning campaign centered around awareness, understanding, and engagement to preventing radicalization to extremism. FUSE recently was awarded a grant from The Department of Homeland Security.
Brad Galloway
Caseworker, Evolve Program & Exit Specialist, Life After Hate
Brad Galloway is the Coordinator at the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. Brad has a wealth of experience from his work in the preventing and countering violent extremism space with NGO’s such as Life After Hate. Where he specifically helps American clientele leave hate motivated groups.
Bishop M. Garrison, Jr.
Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy at Paravision.AI
Bishop Garrison is a senior national security executive, veteran, and writer who has served in the military, presidential administrations and campaigns, the nonprofit community, and the private sector throughout his 20 year career.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Founder & CEO, Valens Global
Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a scholar, author, practitioner, and entrepreneur who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Valens Global, a private company tackling complex twenty-first century challenges that has twice been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s E360 list of the top small businesses in the United States.
Andy George
Counter Terrorism Strategic Coordinator, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealand
Andy has been the Counter-Terrorism Strategic Coordinator with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) since September 2019, leading New Zealand’s national system on all elements of the risk of terrorism and violent extremism.
Karinna Gerhardt
Consultant, Pyrra Technologies
As a consultant with Pyrra Technologies, Karinna researches and reports trends in online extremism and disinformation on fringe social media platforms using Pyrra’s advanced AI tools.
Tanya Gersh
Anti-Semitism Advocate
How has a mom from Montana become a leader in fighting antisemitism?
The founder of a major neo-Nazi website orchestrated a horrific harassment campaign launching a troll storm relentlessly terrorizing Tanya Gersh and her family with anti-Semitic threats, messages and internet terrorization.
Paul Giannasi
Hate Crime Advisor to the National Police Chiefs’ Council in the United Kingdom
Paul is currently the Hate Crime Advisor to the National Police Chiefs’ Council in the United Kingdom Having accrued 30 years experience as a police officer, he advises on hate crime policy and coordinates national responses, managing ‘True Vision’ (www.report-it.org.uk) and the National Online Hate Crime Hub on behalf of the police.
Arusha Gordon
Associate Director, James Byrd Jr. Center to Stop Hate, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Arusha Gordon leads the James Byrd Jr. Center to Stop Hate at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The Byrd Center’s mission is to combat hate crimes and hate incidents, support communities and individuals targeted for hate, and challenge white supremacy using litigation and other legal advocacy.
Kenneth Gormley
President and Professor of Law, Duquesne University
Ken Gormley is the 13th president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he previously served as professor of law before being named dean of the Duquesne University School of Law.
Nathan Graeser
Nathan Graeser is both a Social Worker and an Army Chaplain in the California National Guard. He serves on numerous local and national boards and is a national expert on policies and programs for supporting service-members transitioning out of the military.
Ryan B. Greer
National Security Director, Chief of Staff, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Government Relations, Advocacy, and Community Engagement Team (GRACE)
Ryan B. Greer serves as National Security Director and Chief of Staff for the ADL Government Relations, Advocacy, and Community Engagement (GRACE) team, including leading policy initiatives related to ADL’s PROTECT Plan to counter domestic terrorism while preserving civil liberties.
Lauren Culbertson Grieco
Head of U.S. Public Policy, Twitter Inc.
Lauren Culbertson Grieco is Twitter’s Head of U.S. Public Policy and is based in Washington, D.C. She leads the company’s federal and state public policy teams and initiatives, including advocating for public policies that support the public conversation happening on Twitter.
Chris Griffin
Campus Pastor, Mt. Nebo Campus of Allison Park Church
Chris serves as the Campus Pastor at the Mt. Nebo campus of Allison Park Church, planted in September 2018. He has been on staff with Allison Park for 22 years, and graduated from Geneva College with a degree in Organizational Development.
Rachel Grinspan
Rachel Grinspan is ADL’s Director of Law Enforcement Policy & Civil Rights, where she primarily focuses on issues pertaining to the law enforcement profession as they relate to ADL’s civil rights agenda and advocacy work.
Michele Grossman
Research Chair in Diversity and Resilience, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
Professor Michele Grossman, the Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at Deakin University’s Burwood campus, is also the Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, and the Convenor of the AVERT (Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism) research network.
Dr. Thomas Grumke
Professor at the University of Police and Public Administration Nordrhein-Westfalen
Professor Dr. Thomas Grumke, born 1970, studied political science and German literature in Osnabrück, Ottawa, Berlin, New York and Frankfurt/Oder. Doctoral thesis on „Right-Wing Extremism in the United States“ (advisors: Professor Michael Minkenberg and Professor Hans Joas).
Ellen Gustafson
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, We the Veterans
Ellen Gustafson is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of We the Veterans – a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members, united for democracy and committed to building a more perfect union.
Nick Haberman
Director, LIGHT Education Initiative
Nick Haberman is a 4th generation teacher from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the founder and director of the Light Education Initiative, dedicated to inspiring, preparing, and empowering the next generation of humanitarians.
Hana Hadzifejzovic
Project ReSet Team Lead, John Howard Society of Ottawa
Hana Hadzifejzovic is the curriculum developer for the Playing with Hate: Safe Gaming & Anti-Hate Gaming Project. Through this capacity, she works with a video game developer to create an immersive anti-hate gaming experience targeting youth aged 12 to 18.
Barbara Harding
Partner, Jones Day; Former Federal Prosecutor
Barbara Harding is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor who has represented clients in some of the most high-profile, complex legal matters of the past 25 years.
Ghayda Hassan
Clinical Psychologist and Profesor of Psychology, University of Quebec, Montreal
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations.
Sasha Havlicek
CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Sasha is the Founding CEO of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a leading international ‘think and do tank’ with teams working in every global region to safeguard democracy and reverse the rising tide of hate, extremism and disinformation.
Michael Edison Hayden
Senior Investigative Reporter/Spokesperson, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Michael Edison Hayden serves as a Senior Investigative Reporter and Spokesperson for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where he publishes stories about online radicalization, social media influencers and authoritarianism.
Todd Helmus
Todd C. Helmus is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty.
Tim Hindes
Principal, CEO, TrailBlaze Creative
The work of Tim Hindes exists at the convergence of creativity, community, and connection. He founded TrailBlaze as a company to support organizations and businesses with creative gaps.
Keith Hoffman
Chief, Civil & Community Rights Unit, Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General
Civil Rights Advocate Keith Hoffmann has served as the Office’s Civil Rights Advocate since 2019. In this role, he helps lead the Office’s response to civil rights violations and prosecuted hate crimes.
Jared Holt
Senior Research Manager, Hate & Extremism, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Jared Holt is Senior Research Manager at ISD, working on the topics of hate and extremism. Jared has spent his career as a researcher and journalist covering the overlap between online spaces and political extremism in the United States.
Dr. Brian Hughes
Founding Co-Director, (PERIL)
Brian Hughes is a Research Assistant Professor in the program of Justice, Law, and Criminology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the founding co-director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), where he develops studies and interventions to reduce the impact of disinformation and the risk of radicalization to extremism.
Seamus Hughes
Deputy Director of the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
Seamus Hughes is an expert on terrorism, homegrown violent extremism, and countering violent extremism (CVE).
Jillian Hunchak
Research Analyst, Public Safety, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence
Jillian Hunchak has previously worked with leading P/CVE think tanks to undertake specialized research in digital mis/dis/malinformation campaigns, Incel communities, and far-right extremist groups across the UK, Canada, and the US.
Bjørn Ihler
Co-Founder/Director of Khalifa Ihler Institute, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Glitterpill LLC
Bjørn Ihler is the co-founder and director of the Khalifa Ihler Institute and co-founder and co-CEO of Glitterpill LLC. Ihler is an internationally renowned researcher and expert in countering and preventing radicalisation into violent extremism by building healthier communities on and off-line.
Chris Ingalls
Chris is a KING 5 investigative reporter who enjoys digging beneath the surface to uncover important stories.
Anna Isaacson
Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, National Football League (NFL)
As Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility for the National Football League, Anna directs the league’s social, charitable and philanthropic endeavors, including how the NFL addresses social justice, domestic violence, sexual assault and other critical societal issues.
Fateen Jackson
Activist, Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP)
Fateen Jackson, was incarcerated for 23 years. Fateen went through the GRIP program at San Quentin in 2013. After he graduated, he went on to facilitate nine more groups.
Sam Jackson
Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, University of Albany
Sam Jackson’s research focuses on antigovernment extremism in the U.S., conspiracy theories, extremism online, and contentious activity on the internet more broadly.
Patrick James
Public Policy Manager on the Dangerous Organizations, Meta
Patrick James is a Public Policy Manager on the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy team at Meta, where he focuses on issues related to hate organizations and other violent movements, as well as scaled implementation of Meta’s policies against these groups.
Michael Jensen
Senior Researcher, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Dr. Michael Jensen is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, where he leads the center’s team on domestic radicalization and manages data collection for the Global Terrorism Database.
Trino Jimenez
GRIP participant
Trino Jimenez is a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and man of deep faith. He was given an amazing gift in 2015 when the opportunity was before him to write to the man responsible for his brother’s death many years earlier.
Vida Johnson
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Vida B. Johnson is an Associate Professor of law at Georgetown Law where she teaches in the criminal defense clinics.
Emma Jouenne
Director of Programs & Research on Extremism, Parents for Peace
Emma Jouenne has worked as a first responder on Parents for Peace’s helpline, helping dozens of families in need of support in cases of radicalization.
Pardeep Singh Kaleka
Pardeep S. Kaleka is hate and violence prevention senior advisor with The Working Group, co-director of Not In Our Town and a de-radicalization trauma-focused clinical therapist with Parents4Peace.
Rita Katz
Executive Director and Founder, SITE Intelligence Group
Rita Katz is the Executive Director and founder of the SITE Intelligence Group, a non-governmental counterterrorism organization specializing in tracking and analyzing online activity of the global extremist community.
Dia Kayyali
Associate Director for Advocacy, Mnemonic, Co-Chair, Christchurch Call
Dia Kayyali is Associate Director for Advocacy at Mnemonic, the umbrella organization for Syrian Archive, Yemeni Archive, and Sudanese Archive.
Ben Keiser
Co-Founder and Board Member, We the Veterans
Ben is a founding board member of We the Veterans, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization harnessing the strength of veterans and military families to support the pillars of American democracy.
Christopher Kenna
Christopher Kenna is Chairman and Founder of Brand Advance Group // CEO (North America) which encompasses Brand Advance Group EUROPE & BA Diversity Media USA, a Startups.co.uk top 100 company the last 3 years (2021), and connects brands with diverse audiences globally, through Insights, Media and Creative.
Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder of Muflehun
Humera Khan is the President and co-founder of Muflehun, and a subject matter expert in preventing, countering, and mitigating extremist violence and hate. She is the Technical Lead on the DHS funded project Community Resilience Early Warning System (CREWS) and Master Trainer on the Tackle!
Michael King
Director of Research, Organization for the Prevention of Violence
Michael King held several positions in the field of counterterrorism; most recently as senior research advisor at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and the Prevention of Violence, housed within Public Safety Canada, where he helped develop the Government of Canada’s National Strategy on Countering Violence Extremism.
Louisa Klingvall
Team Leader, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Unit C.2 Fundamental Rights Policy
Louisa Klingvall has been a team leader in the Fundamental Rights Unit of the European Commission DG Justice since 2012.
Varsha Koduvayur
Manager, Valens Global
Varsha Koduvayur is a manager at Valens Global, where she focuses on domestic violent extremism and geopolitics. In this role, she works on public-facing research on the domestic violent extremist space, with a particular emphasis on white supremacy and racially motivated violent extremism.
Alexa Koenig
Team Leader, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Unit C.2 Fundamental Rights Policy
Alexa Koenig, PhD, JD, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice.
Judy Korn
Founder & CEO, Violence Prevention Network
Judy Korn, born in 1971, founder and executive director of Violence Prevention Network in Germany, has worked to counter extremism since she was 14 years old.
Charles Kotuby, Jr.
FCIArb, Professor of Practice, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Executive Director, Center for International Legal Education, Affiliate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Institute of Cyber Law, Policy and Security
Charles Kotuby is a Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Center for International Legal Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Daniel J. Kramer
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Daniel J. Kramer is an internationally-known trial lawyer and litigator in Paul Weiss’ Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group. Called “one of the stars of his generation” by Chambers, and a “quiet giant” by Lawdragon, Dan has handled complex litigations for some of the world’s largest companies and has significant experience representing boards of directors in corporate governance issues and special committees in internal investigations.
Brett Kubicek
Manager Research, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, Public Safety Canada
Brett Kubicek joined the Canadian public service in 2005 after completing his PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, as well as a BA from the University of British Columbia.
Farhaan Ladhani
CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Public Square
Farhaan is CEO of Digital Public Square and a co-founder of the organization. For nearly 20 years, he has been leading efforts on the use of digital tools to connect and mobilize people online.
William H. Lamar IV
Pastor, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
William H. Lamar IV is pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, DC. He previously served congregations in Monticello, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; and Hyattsville, Maryland.
Chuck Leek
Exit Specialist, Life After Hate
Chuck was actively involved with white supremacist groups for over 15 years beginning in the mid-1980s and sympathetic to their beliefs for 20-plus years. After learning that a girlfriend was half Jewish, he began to question those beliefs, which was the beginning of a long disengagement and deradicalization process.
Michele Leaman
Co-founder, Violence Prevention Network – US
Michèle is co-founder of Violence Prevention Network US and draws on a decade worth of start-up, program design, and managerial experience, and 20 years of professional experience in for-profit, non-profit, and academic sectors in the US and Europe.
Brian Levin
Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, Professor of Criminal Justice, California State University, San Bernardino
Criminologist and attorney Brian Levin is a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino where he specializes in analysis of hate crime, terrorism and legal issues. .
Timothy Lewis
Timothy K. Lewis, a former federal appeals court judge, is the co-chair of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group and serves as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner.
Noël Lipana
Regional Prevention Coordinator for The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, US Department of Homeland Security
Noël Lipana is a Regional Prevention Coordinator for The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, US Department of Homeland Security.
Beth Littrell
Senior Supervisor Attorney, Special Litigation, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Beth Littrell is the Senior Supervisor Attorney for Special Litigation at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). A career-long civil rights attorney, she specializes in constitutional torts and impact litigation.
Graham Macklin
Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Extremism (C-Rex), University of Oslo
Graham Macklin is an Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-Rex), University of Oslo, Norway.
Lauren Manning
Author and Advocate, Life After Hate
Lauren Manning is a former far-right extremist who began leaving her life of hate behind in 2012, after becoming involved in her teenage years. Since her last tie to the movement was broken by 2015, she has been rebuilding her life and identity.
James Marley
James Marley, PhD, is Interim Dean and Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. Prior to coming to Loyola, Dr. Marley was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
James V. Marrone
Economist, RAND Corporation
Jim Marrone is an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Abigail Marsh
Professor, Department of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Program I Neuroscience, Georgetown University
Abigail Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted her post-doctoral research at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Michael Masters
National Director & CEO, Secure Community Network
Michael Masters serves as the National Director and CEO of the Secure Community Network (SCN), a role in which he is responsible for the overall leadership, operation, and growth of the official safety and security organization for the Jewish community in North America.
Marilyn Mayo
Senior Research Fellow at ADL’s Center on Extremism
Marilyn Mayo is a Senior Research Fellow at ADL’s Center on Extremism. She had been with the ADL for 25 years, having previously served as the Co-Director of ADL’s Center on Extremism and the Associate Director of Investigative Research at ADL.
Tony McAleer
The Cure for Hate
Tony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-nazi movements, starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions and was instrumental in ushering in the internet building one of the first white supremacist websites for Resistance Records in the mid 90’s.
Mary McCord
Visiting Professor of Law and Legal Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Georgetown University Law Center
Mary McCord is Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
John McCoy
Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director, Organization for the Prevention of Violence (OPV)
John McCoy , Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of the Organization for the Prevention of Violence (OPV). For the past six years John has spearheaded the development of a research, education, and multi-disciplinary psycho-social intervention program (Evolve) that seeks to counter and prevent hate and extremism in the Canadian context.
Colin McDonell
Counsel, States United Democracy Center
Colin McDonell is an attorney at States United Democracy Center, where he focuses on efforts to hold democracy violators accountable.
Joanna Mendelson
Senior Vice President, Community Engagement, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
Joanna Mendelson is the Senior Vice President, Community Engagement of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. In this role she helps convene statewide and national coalitions, expand interfaith and multi-faith community relationships, lead local, state, and federal advocacy efforts and strengthen ties to Israel.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
Cynthia Miller-Idriss holds a joint appointment as Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), which is developing empirically-tested, scalable interventions to prevent and interrupt extremist radicalization.
Wasiullah Mohamed
Senior Policy Officer, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Wasiullah (Wasi) Mohamed served as the Director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh (ICP) Food Pantry for two years, and was selected to be ICP’s Executive Director in 2015.
Kim Grose Moore
Executive Director, Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP)
Kim Grose Moore is the Executive Director of GRIP. Early in her career she was the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Partners in School Innovation.
Ian Moss
Deputy Coordinator for Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorist Detentions in the Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. State Department
Ian Moss recently joined the Bureau for Counterterrorism as the Deputy Coordinator for Terrorism Prevention and Detention. Ian comes to the Department from the Department of Defense where he served as an attorney with the Military Commissions Defense Organization.
Robert Mundy
Social Worker
Robert Mundy is a social worker with 10 years of experience in community mental health. He specializes in trauma-informed care for children and young adults.
David Myers
Director, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate
David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.
Lisa Nelson
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Fellow, Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Nelson is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Fellow at the Philosophy of Science Center and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Elizabeth Neumann
Elizabeth Neumann is Chief Strategy Officer for Moonshot, a social enterprise working to end online harms – such as violent extremism, disinformation, child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence, and human trafficking – by applying evidence, ethics, and human rights.
Rachel Nielsen
D.O., Nicoletti-Flater Associates
Dr. Rachel Nielsen has worked in mental health for 25 years with a focus on trauma, abuse and violence prevention, risk and threat assessment, forensic psychology, and behavior.
Mark NordenBerg
Co-Chair, Eradicate Hate Global Summit; Chancellor Emeritus and Chair of the Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh
Mark Nordenberg joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Law faculty in 1977 and earned a reputation for outstanding teaching and impact in his field.
Licha Nyiendo
Chief Legal Officer, Human Rights First
Licha Nyiendo is Human Rights First’s inaugural Chief Legal Officer. She is responsible for overseeing the full spectrum of legal matters for the organization, including risk and compliance programs, advancement of high impact litigation that addresses social justice issues, and legal representation of refugees and asylum seekers.
David O’Brien
Director of Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health, Yorktown Family Services
David O’Brien has over 25 years of experience working in the field of child, youth, and young adult mental health within various front-line and managerial roles.
Patrice O’Neill
Executive Producer, Not In Our Town
Patrice O’Neill is a filmmaker and CEO of the Oakland-based non-profit strategic media company, The Working Group, and leader of Not In Our Town (NIOT), a movement of people across the country working to build safe, inclusive communities for all.
Derek P. Okubo
Executive Director, Agency for Human Rights & Community Partnerships
Derek is a Colorado native and was raised in Littleton, Colorado. He attended the University of Northern Colorado and graduated with a degree in Psychology and double minors in Communications and Sociology.
Rafal Pankowski
Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland
Rafal Pankowski is a Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. Pankowski received his MA in Political Science from the University of Warsaw. He also studied at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate.
James Pasch
Regional Director: Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia & Western Pennsylvania, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
In 2019 James Pasch became the Cleveland Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League (serving Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania), having previously served on ADL’s Cleveland Regional Board.
Arie Perliger
Professor and Director of Security Studies, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML)
Dr. Arie Perliger is a Professor and the director of the graduate program in security studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Barbara Perry
Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; Director, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism
Dr. Barbara Perry is the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. She has written extensively in the area of hate crime and right-wing extremism.
John Picarelli
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
John T. Picarelli is the Director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Mark Pitcavage
Senior Research Fellow, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Dr. Mark Pitcavage, a historian and authority on extremism in the United States, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Joe Plenzler
Marine Corps Veteran, Board Member, We the Veterans
Joe Plenzler is a combat decorated Marine Corps veteran. He served 20 years on active duty as an infantry officer and as a public affairs officer.
Jenny Presswalla
Acting Director, Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Jenny Presswalla is the Director (Acting) of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) at the US Department of Homeland Security. As Director, she manages the Department’s efforts to prevent acts of targeted violence and terrorism.
Courtney Radsch
Senior U.S. Technology Advisor, ARTICLE 19, Visiting Scholar, Annenberg Center for Media at Risk
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert on technology, media and human rights whose perspective is shaped by her experience as a journalist, scholar, and press freedom advocate.
Rajeev Ramchand
Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
Rajeev Ramchand is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation where he co-directs the RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute.
Nicholas Rasmussen
Executive Director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
Nicholas Rasmussen is a national security professional with more than 27 years in U.S. government service, Rasmussen held senior counterterrorism posts at the White House and in the U.S. Intelligence Community from 2001 to 2017.
Arjun Rath
Student, Middlesex School
Arjun Rath is a sophomore at the Middlesex School and launched a social media project called, #didyouknowHolocaust to share information with his peer group about the rise of hate worldwide and anti-Semitism.
Jessica Reaves
Editorial Director, ADL Center on Extremism
A former staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune and TIME.com, Jessica Reaves joined ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) as an investigative researcher in 2014.
Madison Reid
Director of Collaborative Public Safety Programs, Government of British Columbia
Currently, Madison Reid is the Government of British Columbia’s Director of Collaborative Public Safety Programs.
Katherine Reisner
Senior Counsel, States United Democracy Center
Katie Reisner is a Senior Counsel at States United, where she leads the organization’s work on countering political violence.
Dr. Kacper Rekawek
Dr. Kacper Rekawek has more than 15 years of experience in counterterrorism and countering violent extremism from academia (including a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, QUB, and a research fellowship at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews), think tanks (including the Polish Institute of International Affairs, PISM,) and the third sector (GLOBSEC).
Ryan Roemerman
Executive Director, LGBTQ Institute, National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Ryan Roemerman serves as a Partner at Lexicon Strategies and as the Executive Director of the LGBTQ Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, in Atlanta. Ryan is an innovative strategist who has served as a consultant for state, national, and global businesses and organizations seeking to advance equity and social impact.
Josh Roose
Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization, Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
Dr Josh Roose is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. His research focuses on role of masculinities, ideologies, and social trajectories in shaping the attraction to, and patterns of participation in, religious and political violence.
Eric Rosand
Executive Director, Strong Cities Network
Eric Rosand is the Executive Director of the Strong Cities Network. He has nearly two decades of experience working with governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, academics, and the private sector on international counterterrorism and P/CVE issues.
Robert Rosenthal
Board Member, Executive Producer, Acting CEO, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
Robert Rosenthal has been a journalist for six decades. He is currently on the boards or an advisor to nonprofits including The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Human Rights Center at Berkeley.
Tim Roy
Assistant Secretary, Countering Violence Extremism Branch, Australian Department of Home Affairs
Tim has led the Department of Home Affairs Countering Violent Extremism Branch since July 2021. Prior to this role, he served as Assistant Director-General responsible for Ministerial, Media and Communications at the Australian Signals Directorate in 2020-21.
John “Jack” Rozel
MD, MSL, DFAPA, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Dr. Rozel has been working in emergency mental health since 1990 and has been the medical director of resolve Crisis Services of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital since 2010.
Enrico Suardi
Director of Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington D.C. Department of Behavioral Health and Director of Forensic Services at The Ross Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining the DC Department of Behavioral Health, Dr. Suardi was the Chief Child and Family Psychiatrist at the US State Department.
Ken Scarlette
Chief of Police, Springfield, Illinois Police Department
Chief Scarlette was appointed Springfield Police Chief on February 15, 2022. Originally from Springfield, Scarlette has been with the Springfield Police Department over 24 years.
Ronald Schouten
Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, St. Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, DC)
Ronald Schouten is a clinical and forensic psychiatrist with specific expertise in the fields of targeted violence and behavioral threat assessment and management.
Braden Schrag
Braden Schrag holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and has over twenty-seven years of education, training and multi-disciplinary experience encompassing pediatric mental health, social work, law enforcement, and the private sector.
Scott Schubert
Chief of Law Enforcement Support Section (LESS), Criminal
Shortly after retiring as the Chief of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police in June 2022, Scott E. Schubert began serving as the Chief of the Law Enforcement Support Section (LESS) at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division.
Oren Segal
Vice President, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
As Vice President of the Center on Extremism, Oren Segal and his team combat extremism, terrorism and all forms of hate in the real world and online.
George Selim
Senior Vice President for National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
As Senior Vice President for National Affairs, George Selim leads all external engagement at the federal, state, and local levels as well as community and civic engagement efforts nationally for ADL. The scope of his work also includes national law enforcement outreach and partnerships.
Mubin Shaikh
Activist, Consultant
Mubin Shaikh and raised in Canada but a chance encounter with the Taliban in Quetta in 1995 would eventually push him to become a supporter of the Jihadi culture throughout his 20’s.
James Shappell
Director, Dod Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center (DITMAC), Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)
James Shappell serves as the Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) for Insider Threat within the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s (DCSA’s) Counterintelligence and Insider Threat Directorate, filling the role as the Director of the DoD Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center (DITMAC).
Michelle Shephard
Journalist
Michelle Shephard is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker who has covered issues of terrorism and civil rights since the 9/11 attacks.
Peggy Shukur
Boston Deputy Regional Director, ADL New England
Peggy Shukur serves Deputy Regional Director of ADL New England where she is engaged in all aspects of ADL’s mission to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all”.
Allison Silberberg
Government Relations Consultant/Former Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia
A Government Relations/Public Policy Consultant and writer, Allison Silberberg served as the Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, from 2016 through 2018 after serving as Vice Mayor from 2012 through 2015.
Derek Silva
Ph.D., Associate Professor, King’s University College
Derek Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at King’s University College and Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, both in Ontario, Canada.
Joumana Silyan-Saba
Director of Policy and Discrimination Enforcement for the Los Angeles City Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department
Joumana Silyan-Saba is an accomplished public leader, with a career in public service spanning 18 years of experience in non-profit, city government and academia. With a sense of optimism, Joumana is committed to diplomacy, inclusion and bringing about social change to expand equity and inclusion.
Vanessa Sima
Policy Manager, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, Public Safety Canada
Vanessa Sima recently joined Public Safety Canada’s Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence (the Canada Centre) as the Manager of the Policy Development Team.
Arvind Singhal
Ph.D., Samuel Shirley & Edna Holt Marston Professor, Director, Social Justice Initiative, Department of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Arvind Singhal is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and the Director of Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Melanie Smith
Head of Digital Analysis Unit, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Melanie leads ISD’s Digital Analysis Unit, which combines large-scale social media data collection and advanced open-source investigation techniques to study disinformation, hate and extremism.
Tim Smith
Founder and CEO of Center of Life
Life-long Pittsburgh resident Center of Life’s CEO, Tim Smith, is affectionately known as “PT” (short for Pastor Tim).
Paul Solotaroff
Senior Writer, Rolling Stone Magazine
Paul Solotaroff has been a senior writer at Rolling Stone for thirty years. He broke the NFL concussion scandal, the Aaron Hernandez story, the horror-show conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, and has written a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were wrongly convicted and serving life without parole in state prisons.
Christa Sperling
Co-Founder & Board Member, We the Veterans
Christa Sperling is a co-founder and board member at We the Veterans, where her primary focus is on empowering the veteran and military family community to reduce the negative impact of mis-, dis-, and malinformation on American democracy.
Amy Spitalnick
Executive Director, Integrity First for America
Amy Spitalnick is the Executive Director of Integrity First for America, the nonpartisan civil rights nonprofit that’s backing the landmark federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of Charlottesville community members against the neo-Nazis, white supremacists and hate groups responsible for the August 2017 violence.
Megan Squire
Deputy Director for Data Analytics and OSINT at Southern Poverty Law Center
Dr. Megan Squire is Deputy Director for Data Analytics and OSINT at the Southern Poverty Law Center. As a computer scientist, she applies data science techniques to track and expose networks of hate and extremism online.
Benjamin E. Stearns
Ben Stearns counsels insurance industry clients on regulatory, compliance, transactional, international, and cross-border matters and defends insurers in coverage litigation.
Brette Steele
Director of Prevention and National Security, McCain Institute*
Brette Steele serves as the Director of Prevention and National Security at the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
Kenneth S. Stern
Director, Bard Center for the Study of Hate
Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Mr. Stern is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation.
Emily Stingle
Developing and Using Critical Comprehension, American University
Emily Stingle is the project manager for Invent2Prevent’s Spring 2022 winning team, DUCC (Developing & Using Critical Comprehension), from American University.
Lisa Sugiura
Ph.D., Senior Crimonology and Cyber Crime Lecturer, Post-graduate Program Area Leader, University of Portsmouth
Lisa Sugiura is a Reader in Cybercrime and Gender at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Ingrid Sundlee
Director of Civic Engagement, We the Veterans, Vet the Vote
Ingrid Sundlee has 15 years of communications and project management experience with the federal government, including extensive work on humanitarian disaster relief in Iraq, Nigeria, and the Caribbean.
Vikram Swaruup
Vikram Swaruup serves as Chief Deputy Attorney General at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
Rabbi Ron Symons
Director of Prevention and National Security, McCain Institute
Rabbi Ron Symons serves as the Sr. Director of Jewish Life of the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh. In that capacity, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Loving Kindness.
Matt Talbot
Founder, Triple Threat Assessment and Prevention Consulting
Matt Talbot is the founder and Principal consultant for Triple Threat Assessment and Prevention Consulting.
Susan Thaxton
Chief Strategy Office, The Mission Continues
Susan Thaxton is the Chief Programs Officer for the Mission Continues, a national non-profit that empowers veterans to continue their service by applying their leadership skills and experience to volunteer in under-resourced communities in forty cities across the country.
Paul Thomas
Professor of Youth and Policy, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield
Paul Thomas is Professor of Youth and Policy in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Steven Thomas
Lieutenant, CIT Team, Anne Arundel County Police
Lt. Steven Thomas has been in law enforcement since 1992, when he began his career with the Baltimore City Sheriff’s office and he has spent the last 21 years with the Anne Arundel County Police Department. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology from U.M.B.C and a Master’s Degree in Legal & Ethical Studies from the University of Baltimore.
A.C. Thompson
Staff Reporter, ProPublica, Correspondent, Frontline
A.C. Thompson is a correspondent for the PBS series FRONTLINE and a staff reporter for ProPublica. His reporting has helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison, a Congressional investigation of the U.S. Border Patrol, and the prosecution of nine violent white supremacists.
Tom Thorley
Director of Technology, Staff Reporter, ProPublica, Correspondent, Frontline
Tom Thorley is the Director of Technology at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) and delivers cross-platform technical solutions for GIFCT members.
Kaitlyn Tierney
Middlebury Institute
Kaitlyn Tierney is a final semester Graduate Student at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, pursuing her MA in International Policy Development, with a focus on Counter-Terrorism.
Shawn Turner
Professor of National Security Communication, Michigan State,On-Air National Security Analyst, CNN, Former Director of Communication, U.S. National Intelligence, Former Deputy White House Press Secretary for National Security
Shawn Turner is a Professor of Strategic Communication at Michigan State University and a National Security Analyst for CNN. In 2021, he was granted prestigious leave from MSU to serve a one-year special appointment as the Senior Advisor to Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Daniel Vallone
U.S. Director, More in Common
As U.S. Director, Dan has led multiple unique research projects to explain American politics and culture.
Wendy Via
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
Wendy Via is an expert in the intersection of technology and far-right extremism and in achieving change and influencing narratives and actions around civil and human rights issues, including the effects extremism and systemic racism have on our society, economic inequality, immigration, criminal justice reform, religious minorities, and LGBTQ rights.
Samantha Vinograd
Acting Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, Threat Prevention and Law Enforcement Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Samantha Vinograd is the Acting Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention and Law Enforcement Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Jacob Ware
Research Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Jacob Ware is a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he studies far-right terrorism and counterterrorism. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Fay Stetz-Waters
Director of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice
Fay Stetz-Waters holds a BA in history from Trinity College and a JD from Lewis and Clark Law School. She currently serves as the Director of Civil Rights and Social Justice in the Office of the Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice.
Stevan Weine
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, M.D.
Dr. Weine is Professor of Psychiatry at the UIC College of Medicine, where he also Director of Global Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health. For 30 years he has been conducting research both with refugees and migrants in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and violence prevention.
George Weiss
Director, Radio La Benevolencija HTF, Amsterdam
George Weiss is the founder and CEO of Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation (“RLB”), an organization that sets up media projects to teach populations to resist hate speech and incitement to identity-based violence.
Michael Whine
Senior Consultant, World Jewish Congress
Michael Whine is Senior Consultant at the World Jewish Congress. He was previously the Director of Government and International Affairs at the UK Community Security Trust, where he was based for 35 years and of which he was co-founder.
Garnell Whitfield
Buffalo Community Leader
As a life-long resident of Buffalo, NY, Garnell Whitfield is one of four children of the late Mrs. Ruth E. Whitfield and Garnell W. Whitfield Sr. who were married for 68 years before her untimely passing on May 14, 2022.
Sammie Wicks
Center for Targeted Violence Prevention and National Policing Institute
Sammie Wicks is a ten-year law enforcement professional who previously worked in various Memphis Police Department roles. Currently, he is assigned to the Aurora Police Department’s Crisis Response Team.
Heather J. Williams
Acting Associate Director, International Security and Defense Police Center, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Heather Williams is acting associate director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, part of the RAND National Security Research Division. She is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Robert Williams, PhD
Deputy Director, International Affairs, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Chair, Initiative on Genocide Denial Laws, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Dr. Robert Williams is Deputy Director for the Office of International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the steering committee of the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion, and served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Erin Wilson
Senior Director, Extremism and Human Rights, Human Rights First
Erin E. Wilson serves as the Senior Director for Extremism & Human Rights at Human Rights First (HRF).
Tommy Winfrey
Navigator, California Conservation Corps
Tommy Winfrey, helps young adults transition into careers while offering guidance as a Navigator for the California Conservation Corps.
Katarzyna Włodkowska
Reporter, Investigative Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
Katarzyna Wlodkowska is a reporter and investigative journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s leading liberal newspaper. She made her debut in 2003, her main focus is criminal and social injustice.
Thomas A. Woods
Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington
Thomas Woods is employed as a General Crimes Supervisor for the United States Attorney’s Office in Seattle. He has been employed by the Office since March 2007, and has held a variety of roles, including Deputy Supervisor of the Terrorism and Violent Crimes Unit and the Criminal Discovery Coordinator for the Office.
Dr. Elizabeth Yates
Senior Researcher for Antisemitism, Human Rights First
Dr. Elizabeth Yates is the Senior Researcher for Antisemitism at Human Rights First.
Michael Miller Yoder
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaboratory Against Hate and IDeaS Center, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Michael Miller Yoder is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaboratory Against Hate and the Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity at Carnegie Mellon University.
Hayne Yoon
Hayne Yoon has been serving as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) at the U.S. Department of Justice since December of 2021.
Odette Yousef
National Security Correspondent on Extremism, NPR
Odette Yousef is NPR’s domestic extremism correspondent. Her stories often focus on how extremist ideologies and tactics filter into the mainstream. Prior to joining NPR in August of 2021, Yousef was a reporter at Chicago NPR affiliate station WBEZ.
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