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National Organizing Committee Members
| George Holden Ph. D., Chair
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University
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| Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D., Co-Chair
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Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Relations, University of Texas at Austin |
| Susan Bitensky, J.D. |
Professor of Law, Michigan State University |
| Nadine Block |
Executive Director, Center for Effective Discipline; Co-Chair, EPOCH-USA |
| Jimmy Dunne |
Founder & President, People Opposed to Paddling Students |
| Robert Fathman, Ph.D. |
President, National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools; Co-Chair, EPOCH-USAP |
| Andy Grogan-Kaylor, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan |
| Michele Knox, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toledo College of Medicine |
| Rep. Barbara M. Norton |
Louisiana House of Representatives |
| Jordan Riak |
Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education, Alamo, California |
| Des Runyan, M.D. |
Professor, University of North Carolina Medical School |
| Deana Pollard Sacks, J.D. |
Professor, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University |
| Deborah Sendek |
Prevention Specialist, National Child Protection Training Center, Winona State University, Minnesota |
| Murray Straus, Ph.D. |
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire |
| Catherine Taylor, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, Tulane University, Louisiana |
| Brigitte Vittrup, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Development and Education, Texas Woman's University |
International Organizing Committee Members
| Joan Durrant, Ph.D., International Co-Chair |
Professor, Department of Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Penelope Leach, Ph.D. |
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, United Kingdom |
| Priscilla Lui |
Director, Against Child Abuse Hong Kong |
| Olivier Maurel |
President, Observatory of Ordinary Disciplinary Violence, Le Pradet, France |
| Paul Mason |
Family Law & Child Rights Barrister, Former Commissioner for Children, Tasmania |
| Peter Newell |
Coordinator, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, United Kingdom |
| Dominique Pierre Plateau |
Regional Representative -Child Protection Initiative, Save the Children, Southeast Asia & the Pacific, Thailand |
| Bernadette Saunders, Ph.D. |
Senior Research Fellow/Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia |
| Denise Stuckenbruck |
Program Manager, Child Protection Initiative, Save the Children, Kenya |
| Beth Wood |
Former Advocacy Manager, UNICEF New Zealand; Co-founder EPOCH-New Zealand |
| Sonia Vohito |
Africa Coordinator, Joint Project of the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and the African Child Policy Forum, Ethiopia |
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