
GDS Summit on Sexual Assault and Consent
2021 SPEAKER INFORMATION
SURVIVOR PANELISTS
Hope Butler-Khodaei
Board of Directors/Treasurer
Indigenous Vision
Samantha Carwyn
Consultant
Carwyn Collaboration
Chessy Prout
Survivor Panel Moderator
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Hana Jafir
Founder of Frizz Kid Art
Author, Artist, and Activist
2021 WORKSHOP PRESENTERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Al Vernacchio
N-12 Sexuality Education Coordinator
Friends Central School
Alyza Weinberg
Youth and Young Adult Trauma Therapist
DC Rape Crisis Center
Ari Wilkenfeld
Founder
Wilkenfeld, Herendeen, & Atkinson
Ashley Townes
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CDC
Beth Landau
Felony Senior Legal Assistant
Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office
Brendan Nigro
Education Legislative Aide
Office of Senator Mark Warner
Bex Mui
Self
Mui LGBTQ Consulting
Cheyenne Tyler Jacobs
Founder
She Will Speak
Christine Badie
Program Manager
DC Forensic Nurse Examiner
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Author and Professor
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Elizabeth Tang
Senior Counsel
National Women's Law Center
Emily Schorr Lesnick
Director of Social Emotional Learning
University Prep
Emma Levine
Manager
Know Your IX
GDS Boys Leading Boys Student Organization
Student Leads
Arthur, Hayden, and Henry
Gilda Goldental
Bilingual Advocate
Network for Victim Recovery of DC
Hope Butler-Khodaei
Board of Directors Treasurer
Indigenous Vision
Jewish Teens for Empowered Consent
Co-Founder
Joe Samalin
Co-Founder
MenChallenging
John Roberts
Assistant Director of Training and Advocacy
The Office of Advocacy Services for Interpersonal and Sexual Violence (OASIS), Health Promotion and Advocacy Center, American University
Juanita Harris
Victim Assistance Specialist
Homeland Security
Justine Ang Fonte
JAF Kalusugan, LLC
Owner
Katherine Kendall
Speaker
Harvey Weinstein Survivors
Lacy Crawford
Author
Leta Highsmith and Jenn Sandholm
Program & Accounts Managers
Jane Doe No More
Maddie Feldman
Chair
Student Action Committee
Meg Blitzshaw
Educator
Self-Employed
Melissa Nesic
Harvey Weinstein Survivor
Silence Breaker
Mercia Cummings
Instructor and Therapist
Illumine LLC and Yoga-Ish
Michelle Dagne
Coordinator for Victim Advocacy Services
The Office of Advocacy Services for Interpersonal and Sexual Violence (OASIS), Health Promotion and Advocacy Center, American University
Mike and Moni Hill
Parents
I Have The Right To
Mila Noshivrani and Melvika Reddy
Co-Founders
The Art Initiative
Miriam Levitin
Prevention Education & Training Program Manager
JCADA
Molly Love
MS Coordinator of Social-Emotional Programming
McLean School
Reagan Rifle and Lorien Tyne
Student Organizers
End Sexual Violence of Campus - NH
Rosemary Kilkenny
Vice President, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer
Georgetown University
Sam Carwyn
Educator & Advocate
Interfaith Alliance of Colorado
Shafia Zaloom
Health Educator
The Urban School
Shari Thomas
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist; Director of the Gender Wellness Clinic
Healthy Foundations Group
Sharon Kurn
Chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section
D.C. United States Attorney's Office
Shira Stutman
Rabbi
Silva Zenteno
Senior Director of Education and Research
It's On Us
Simone Arrington
National and Regional Youth Advisor
One Love
Susan Prout
Co-Founder
I Have The Right To