Cordelia Anderson began her career in 1976 focusing on promoting sexual health and preventing child sexual abuse. In 1992, she founded her own consulting business Sensibilities. Anderson conducted over 2,500 presentations on a wide variety of prevention related topics and restorative justice/circles for prevention and healing. She worked with organizations like Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America (to develop trauma informed responses to historic trauma), Just Beginning Collaborative (to write a report of child sexual abuse services and prevention efforts), CALCASA-Prevent Connect (co-hosted Ending Child Sexual Abuse web conference series), and Wetterling Resource Center (to develop and facilitate gatherings for families of missing/murdered children). In 2014, through MNCASA, she wrote a play “Fired Up” based on the stories adult survivors of child sexual abuse/exploitation. Cordelia’s earlier work included: co-authoring five prevention plays with Illusion Theater, serving as a child advocate at Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, consulting therapist with sex offenders and survivors, lead consultant on media efforts: Project Abuse (won an Emmy in 1984) and You’re the One Who Can Make the Peace. She served on boards including: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, prevention committee-ATSA, Advisory board-Stop It Now! She founded, and is past president of, the National Coalition for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation. Cordelia is the author of the 2011/updated 2017 booklet “Impact of Pornography on Children, Youth and Culture” (Safer Society). Since the 1980’s another core part of Cordelia’s work included addressing secondary trauma and helping organizations keep professionals that do this work as healthy as possible. Her awards include: 2019 National Center on Sexual Exploitation Spotlight Lifetime Achievement, 2019 National Coalition for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation Lifetime Achievement, 2013 a NSVRC’s Vision Awards.
Lucy Berliner is Director, Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress and Clinical Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her activities include clinical practice with child and adult victims of trauma and crime; research on the impact of trauma and the effectiveness of clinical and societal interventions; and participation in local and national social policy initiatives to promote the interests of trauma and crime victims.
Michael Johnson is a Prevention Consultant and Trainer. He formerly served as the Youth Protection Director for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), where he led the organization’s efforts to continually enhance and improve youth protection policies and procedures and ensure the safest possible environment for its more than 2.3 million youth members. An internationally-recognized expert on child abuse detection and prevention, and a 28-year law enforcement veteran, Johnson oversaw youth protection for BSA from 2010 to 2020. Prior to joining BSA, Johnson served for nearly 28 years as a Detective and the Lead Child Abuse Investigator in the Juvenile Division of the Plano Police Department in Plano, Texas. In that role, he focused exclusively on the investigation of child abuse cases, including sexual assault and exploitation. Johnson is a founding member of the Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center located in Plano, and was named the Center’s Child Advocate of the Year in 1996.
Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with a minor in psychology from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.
Keith Kaufman is a Clinical/Community Psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. He has chaired state prevention committees in Ohio and Oregon and co-chaired the committee that created Oregon’s first statewide sexual violence prevention plan. Dr. Kaufman is a member of the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation, Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s National Safety Task Force, Big Brothers Big Sisters National Safety Committee, and was previously on the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s advisory board. Dr. Kaufman is Past President of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and recently received that organization’s Significant Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a recipient of the U.S. Office Of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention’s Gould-Wysinger award for research excellence.
Dr. Kaufman has provided assessment and treatment to both child sexual abuse victims and juvenile sexual offenders, as well as their families. He provides regular trainings and consultation focused on prevention and enhancing safety in organizational settings, including past work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the U.S. Olympic Committee, Boy Scouts of America, and the Committee for Children.
Dr. Kaufman has authored two books, a variety of book chapters, and numerous research articles addressing sexual violence and sexual violence prevention. He edited Preventing Sexual Violence: A Practitioner's Sourcebook (NEARI Press, 2010) and co-authored the first prevention chapter to be included in Interpol's member manual. He also co-authored a comprehensive review of the international literature on risk and protective factors related to child sexual abuse in youth serving organizations (YSO) for the Australian Royal Commission on Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse (with Marcus Erooga; 2016). In 2019, he published on topics that included: Powerful YSO sexual perpetrators; YSO child sexual abuse risk factors; and prevention implications of juvenile sex offenders’ supervision of victims and their experience of being parented.
Dr. Kaufman recently completed a $1 million U.S. Department of Justice grant funded project to develop a national Campus Situational Prevention Approach to enhance student safety. He is currently working with the U.S. Center for SafeSport on a three year project to create the Sport Situational Prevention Approach for use with U.S. Olympic, Paralympic, and younger elite athletes across the country. Finally, he has recently begun work on an adaptation of his Situational Prevention Approach for use in high school settings (funded by the World Childhood Foundation).
Araceli Martinez is the Director of Clinical Programs and Outreach at the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. She has a deep compassion for Children and families who are impacted by abuse and trauma. Araceli has been in the field of Child Abuse for over 13 years, and is intimately familiar with the Child Welfare System, having worked in a variety of settings that include Social Work and Child Forensic Interviewing. Since then, she expanded into Clinical Psychotherapy to address the complexity of issues each client and family face throughout the process of healing. Her focus is on helping clients discover their strengths, build support systems, and develop safety awareness. Araceli specializes and has developed expertise in the treatment of abuse and complex trauma. She utilizes a person-center approach that incorporates interventions from Trauma Focus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Araceli has a warm, supportive, and collaborative approach that allows her clients and their families to feel at ease immediately.
Additionally, through the nonprofit Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Foundation, her objective with the outreach program is to educate children of all ages about what to do when confronted with abusive behavior such as safe and unsafe touches and other physical and emotional abuse. Araceli’s focus on early education and child abuse awareness stems from the belief that the cycle of generational abuse can be broken.
Viola Vaughan-Eden is Associate Professor and PhD Program Director with The Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work at Norfolk State University in Southeastern Virginia. She is also the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at The UP Institute, a think tank for upstream child abuse solutions. As a clinical and forensic social worker, Dr. Vaughan-Eden serves as a consultant and expert witness in child maltreatment cases – principally sexual abuse. She also lectures nationally and internationally on child and family welfare to multidisciplinary groups of professionals. She has been an invited panelist on two Congressional Briefings – Spare the Rod, Protect the Child: A Reconsideration of Corporal Punishment of Children in Homes and Schools as well as Protecting Child Safety in Family Court.
Dr. Vaughan-Eden is President Emerita of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), President Emerita of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence (NPEIV) and Immediate Past-President of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work (NOFSW). She has authored several child maltreatment publications and serves on the editorial board of a number of peer-refereed journals including the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
Dr. Vaughan-Eden is the recipient of several honors including as a 2019 Council of Social Work Education Leadership Scholar, 2015 Family and Children’s Trust Fund of Virginia Child Welfare Award, 2014 Champions for Children Community Service Award, 2012 National Association of Social Workers Virginia Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award, and 2011 National Children's Advocacy Center's Outstanding Service Award in Mental Health.
Dr. Vaughan-Eden has a PhD in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Master of Social Work from Norfolk State University, and a Master of Jurisprudence in Children’s Law and Policy from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. See www.violavaughaneden.com.