Conference Speakers

Alma Allen, Ph.D., Texas State Representative
Susan Bitensky, J.D., Michigan State University College of Law
Bernadette Saunders, Ph.D., Monash University, Australia
Nadine Block, Co-Chair of EPOCH-USA, & Executive Director, Center for Effective    Discipline, 1987-2010
Raffi Cavoukian, Founder of Child Honouring, The Centre for Child Honouring
Howard Davidson, J.D., Director, Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Assoc.
Chris Dodd, Coordinator, Churches' Network for Non-Violence, England
Joan Durrant, Ph.D., University of Manitoba
Emily Laurie, M.A., Plan International, England
Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Milena Grillo, M.A., Fundacion Paniamor, Costa Rica
Asadah Kirkland, author, Beating Black Kids
Michelle Knox, Ph.D., University of Toledo College of Medicine
Penelope Leach, Ph.D., C. Psychol, FBPsS, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study    of Children, Families and Social Issues, Bikrbeck, University of London
N. Raj Mohan, Ph.D., Bodhi LTD, Chennai, India
Dipak Naker, Raising Voices, Uganda
Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., author of the Positive Discipline series
Peter Newell, Coordinator, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children,    England
Mali Nilsson, Save the Children, Sweden
Rep. Barbara Norton, House of Representatives, Louisiana
Johny O’Donnell, Students Against Violence Everywhere, New Zealand
Deana Pollard Sacks, J.D., Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University
Seth Scholer, M.D., MPH, Vanderbilt University
Benjamin Shmueli, Ph.D., LLM, LLB, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Murray Straus, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
Rita Swan, Ph.D., Children’s Health Care is a Legal Duty
Sombat Tapanya, Ph.D., Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Cathy Taylor, Ph.D., MSW, MPH, Tulane University
Sonia Vohito, African Child Policy Forum & Global Initiative to End All C.P. of Children,    Ethiopia
Beth Wood, EPOCH, New Zealand