Dr. Alice Gooding is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kennesaw State University and a Forensic Anthropology Consultant for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In addition to consulting for local and state-level agencies, Alice teaches two courses in clandestine grave recovery at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center each year. During the summer, she teaches forensic pathology and anthropology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her research interests include skeletal blast trauma, bone biomechanics, osteometrics, and forensic archaeology. Dr. Gooding received her PhD from the University of Tennessee where she worked as a research assistant and instructor for the UT Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC). Alice earned her Masters at the University of Georgia in Archaeological Resource Management.

Alyssa has worked for County Counsel in the Dependency Division since December 1997. She has been in charge of the Los Angeles County Counsel Child Abduction Unit since March of 2001. The Abduction Unit handles all dependency child abduction cases for Los Angeles County. Ms. Skolnick works with the Office of Children's Issues at the State Department, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the US Embassy in Mexico, and many other local, state, and federal agencies to locate and recover missing children. In July of 2015, she took over the position of Legislative and Confidentiality Attorney. Her current responsibilities include advising on legislation, drafting legislation, and analyzing issues of confidentiality as they apply to dependency cases. Alyssa graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine in 1994 with a B.A. and from Loyola Law School in 1997. She is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School where she teaches a class on dependency law

Annita Lucchesi (Cheyenne) serves as Executive Director of Sovereign Bodies Institute, and in that role, continues her work as founder and caretaker of the MMIW Database. Annita brings years of experience in grassroots research and organizing to end violence against indigenous women and girls, serving as an advocate and expert in work with tribal, federal, and state efforts to better address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. Annita is a survivor of domestic and sexual violence, as well as trafficking. Her research specialties include indigenous methodologies, arts-based methods, critical cartography, and data sovereignty. She holds a BA in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MA in American Studies from Washington State University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural, Social, & Political Thought at the University of Lethbridge.

Ashley Rodriguez is a Forensic Case Manager in the Forensic Services Unit pf the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), where she manages a caseload of unidentified child cases spanning the western half of the United States. She has held this position since 2011. She first began her tenure at NCMEC as an intern, working within the Forensic Services Unit and closely with the Project ALERT program. After her internship, Ashley began working for America's Most Wanted as a Hotline Specialist. In October 2008, Ashley returned to NCMEC as an Assistant Case Manager in the Missing Children's Division. Ashley attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia where she ob¬tained a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Cognitive Science in 2007.

Carl Carter, Jr., is the Founder and Executive Director of the Beverly Carter Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to improve the safety of real estate professionals through education, resources, and victim advocacy. In 2014, his mother, Realtor Beverly Carter, lost her life at the hands of two kidnappers posing as clients. Carl has a Master and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. He is currently pursuing an Executive Masters in Public Service from the Clinton School of Public Service.

ICMEC works to make the world safer for children by eradicating child abduction, sexual abuse, and exploitation through advocacy, training, and collaboration. ICMEC’s programs and initiatives are identifying gaps in the global community’s ability to properly protect children from abduction, exploitation and abuse and expertly assemble the people, resources and tools needed to help fill those gaps. Caroline oversees ICMEC’s Global Missing Children’s Center. In this capacity, she develops national missing children policies, directs the Global Missing Children's Network, conducts research, and hosts international trainings, roundtables, and conferences.

Chris has been active in Search and Rescue since 1981, managing searches since 1986. He is the past reserve Captain for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team and serves as chair of the Bay Area Search and Rescue Council, Inc. (BASARC). He co-authored “Urban Search – Managing Missing Person Searches in the Urban Environment” (published 2007 by dbS Publication), and is a contributing author on several other books for search and rescue. Additionally, he is a Level 1 law enforcement reserve with the Sheriff’s Department, and the City of Danville and is an EMT 1 Instructor. Chris holds a Master of Science Degree in Construction Management and works as a Senior Project Manager for a large general contractor based in San Francisco, responsible for overall management of multi-million dollar ground up commercial, high rise, hospital, educational and hotel projects

Colleen, PhD, founder of Identifinders International, is widely recognized as the originator of modern Forensic Genealogy. She has worked dozens of cold case homicides for law enforcement using genetic genealogy analysis. Most notably, she is credited with solving the 1992-1993 Phoenix Canal Murders – the first case solved using genetic genealogy. She had been the Forensic Genealogist on several historical projects including the Identification of the Unknown Child on the Titanic and the Abraham Lincoln DNA Project. Her collaborations include the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, the US Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Office, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, and other noted professional organizations. She is the author of three books: Forensic Genealogy, DNA & Genealogy, and The Dead Horse Investigation: Forensic Photo Analysis for Everyone.

Dr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an associate professor at Arizona State University and is the Director of the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz actively conducts research regarding sex and labor trafficking with specific focus on intervention studies for exiting, exploration of the sex traffickers regarding techniques and characteristics, and evaluating deterrence activities for sex buyers. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz has been invited to be a subject matter expert for the White House, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, and the Office of Victims of Crime. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz is an appointed member of the City of Phoenix Human Trafficking Task Force and the Arizona Governor’s Human Trafficking Council.

Dr. Karen Shalev Greene is the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Dr. Greene is the lead editor of the book Missing Persons: A Handbook of Research. She has been the lead researcher of numerous research projects and is well published in the field. Recent projects include: multi-agency work in missing person investigations, the definition of a missing person, missing people living with dementia who go missing, missing persons who commit suicides, unaccompanied migrant minors who go missing, reasons why search and rescue volunteers leave, search and rescue of missing persons at sea, and the well-being of police officers and staff working on missing person investigations.

Beginning in 2008, Dustin Driscoll worked as an analyst within the Case Analysis Unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). In this position, he was responsible for providing analytical assistance to law enforcement officers working various types of missing child cases. He spent the majority of his employment at NCMEC assigned to the Forensic Services Unit, where he was responsible for conducting more in-depth analyses of cold case missing and unidentified deceased children. In 2011, Mr. Driscoll was promoted to a Senior Analyst with NCMEC.

Frank has diverse experience in aviation disaster investigation. He has organized, conducted and participated in several Emergency Response/Crisis Management training programs and has developed multiple airline emergency management response plans and government mass fatalities plans. He oversaw recovery and forensic operations in high-profile incidents such as the terrorist attacks on September 11th, TWA 800, Egypt Air 990, Alaska Airlines 261, JFK Jr., Payne Stewart, and the Space Shuttle Columbia accident. He graduated from University of New Mexico with a B.S. in Biology and Physical Anthropology and a Master of Science degree in Forensic Anthropology and Public Administration. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science, a Diplomat- American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators, and the former U.S. Representative to INTERPOL.

Rep. Gina Mosbrucker is honored to represent the 14th District (Skamania County, Klickitat County, a large part of Yakima County, and a part of Clark County). She is a fifth-generation resident of Klickitat County (Goldendale). She was first elected in 2014, becoming the first person elected to the state Legislature from Klickitat County since 1982. Rep. Mosbrucker currently serves in the State House of Representatives as the Ranking Member of the Labor & Workplace Standards Committee; serves as a Member of the Appropriations committee and the Business & Financial Services committee. Rep. Mosbrucker started the Washington State Business Caucus and the Republican Women’s Caucus. She is also the Co-Chair of the SAFE Task Force. She is a member of the Outdoor Recreation Caucus, the Aviation Caucus, the Fire Caucus, the Kids Kaucus, the Local Government Caucus, and the Human Trafficking Caucus.

Jamie Stirling has 28 years of search and rescue experience with the Ontario Provincial Police, including 6 years as their Provincial Search and Rescue Coordinator. He has managed some of Canada’s most challenging cases and is recognized as a Canadian Provincial Court expert in mapping and GPS systems. An “Honorary Canadian Ranger” with the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol, Jamie has provided technical assistance to numerous organizations, both provincial and national governments, where his operational knowledge in search and rescue has been instrumental in creating a foundation for search and rescue operations and programs.

Jason is a native Tucsonan and a graduate of the University of Arizona. He has ten years of experience at the Tucson Police Department, including both a patrol and investigative background. Currently, Jason supervises the Tucson Police Department Mental Health Investigative Support Team. Along with Terry Staten, Jason co-facilitates a Pima County (Arizona) regional Crisis Intervention Training that more than ten police agencies attend. Recently the Tucson Police Department and the Pima County Sheriff's Department became two of the first law enforcement agencies in the Country to adopt an Advanced CIT training program. Jason is also a Mental Health First Aid instructor.

Joelle has been a victim witness advocate in the New Hampshire Attorney General's Cold Case Unit since its creation in 2009. Since then, she has been a liaison for families and investigators for more than 130 cold cases in the state. She also participated on the Lethality Assessment Program Steering Committee, the Critical Incident Protocol Committee, and the New Hampshire Victim Rights Day Committee. Joelle has an undergraduate degree in criminal justice with a concentration in investigative services from the University of New Haven. She also holds a minor in psychology and certificates in law enforcement science, victim service administration, and paralegal studies. She obtained her Master's in Public Administration with a concentration in criminal justice from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 2015.

John C. Steinbeck was promoted to Deputy Fire Chief on Feb. 1, 2014. He has been with the Clark County Fire Department since 1990. Prior to that, he held the rank of battalion chief, captain, fire engineer, and firefighter. For a large portion of his career, he specialized in technical rescue including high angle, confined space, swift water, trench, vehicle and machinery extrication, and structural collapse. Chief Steinbeck has also been with Southern Nevada’s FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team since 1993. His deployments for search and rescue missions included New York City shortly after 9-11 and New Orleans for the aftermath caused by Hurricane Katrina. Currently, Chief Steinbeck serves as the Emergency Manager for Clark County and is in charge of the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. In addition, he serves as the chair for the Las Vegas Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Working Group and Co-Chair of the Nevada Homeland Security Working Group.

Dr. Jonathan Eisenstat has served as the Chief Medical Examiner at GBI since his appointment in November 2015. The GBI Medical Examiner’s Office is responsible for investigating sudden unexpected and violent deaths for 154 of the 159 counties in the state of Georgia. He became Deputy Chief Medical Examiner in 2014. Dr. Eisenstat has assisted in a number of Metro Atlanta medical examiner offices and is an autopsy consultant with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He sits on a number of national, state, and local committees. Prior to his work at GBI, Dr. Eisenstat completed a one-year fellowship in Pediatric Pathology at New York University before entering into the Forensic Pathology and Forensic Neuro / Cardiac Pathology fellowships at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City. Dr. Eisenstat completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Davis in 1993 and earned his medical doctorate from Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1998.

Senior Crime Intelligence Analyst Jonathan Rigsby began working for the State of Florida in 2012 as a Statewide Missing Child Specialist for the Department of Children and Families. In 2015, he joined FDLE’s Counter Terrorism Intelligence Center in the Office of Statewide Intelligence, where he assembled profiles of known and suspected terrorists and assisted in the response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting. In 2017, Mr. Rigsby joined the Unidentified Deceased Initiative. He is responsible for analysis of unidentified deceased cases, as well as research and data analysis projects. Mr. Rigsby holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago and graduated from Vanderbilt University, where he studied Political Science with a focus on security and terrorism issues.

Kristin McGunnigle serves as a Product Trainer for Thorn, a nonprofit building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Kristin leads and maintains user facing training, support, and engagement with Thorn’s core products. Driven by helping the world’s most vulnerable children, Kristin comes to Thorn with 9 years experience in the nonprofit space, including nearly 8 years in experiential engagement, partnership management, and fundraising at World Vision, one of the world’s largest relief and development organizations. She holds a B.A. in Business Administration with a focus in Global Development and Micro Finance from Seattle Pacific University.

Linda began her career with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) in 2006 as a Financial Crime Investigator, investigating public assistance fraud. In 2008, she became a Special Agent with FDLE. As part of her duties, Inspector Pollard worked a variety of cases to include officer-involved shootings, major drugs, economic crime, and counter-terrorism. In 2016, she was asked to join FDLE’s Unidentified Deceased Initiative and became the first sworn officer to serve in this capacity. Inspector Pollard is responsible for developing this initiative into a full-time program and identifying investigative resources and advancements that will assist in the identification of human remains. Inspector Pollard also works with FDLE’s Missing and Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse on long-term missing person cases, as well as handling requests for Missing Child Alerts and AMBER Alerts throughout the State.

Margarita has worked on public safety, child abduction prevention, and crime prevention in Nevada since 2010. Nevada Child Seekers safely recovers over 90% of their over 560 missing child caseload a year. Margarita’s contagious energy has inspired a dedicated group of volunteers to help find missing children in Nevada while also presenting youth empowerment programs to 30,000 students through 180 workshops and assemblies a year! She is a member of local the Nevada Private Investigators Association, Nevada Coalition’s Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Prevention Subcommittee, Nevada Society of Professional Investigators, Community Coalition for Victim Rights, Department of Justice National Missing Child Poster Contest state coordinator, Drug Enforcement Agency community partnership, and school liaison. Her accomplishments include diversifying funding sources to enable Nevada Child Seekers to continue locate, advocate for missing, abducted, and runaway children.

Lieutenant Marianne Flynn Statz and joined the Madison Police Department in 1991 and served for 27 years before retiring in 2018. As a Detective, most of her cases included sexual assaults, stalking, crimes against children, domestic violence, homicides and missing persons. She was a member of the Officer Involved Shoot team, SWAT team, Cold Case Team and founded the Child Abduction Response Team. She is a current member of the Wisconsin Cold Case Review Team. She has instructed on Sexual Assault Investigation, Crimes against Children, Cognitive Graphic Interviewing and the Investigation and Prosecution of No Body Homicides. Marianne provides consultations to agencies investigating No Body cases. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Chief Michael Harnishfeger has 34 years of public service experience with Ohio law enforcement, 25 of those as a Chief of Police. Chief Harnishfeger spearheaded the legislative effort to mandate police chief training in Ohio that became law in January 2018. He invented and has been recognized for award-winning community policing programs including S.A.F.E.R. (Seeking Aid From Every Resident), C.L.E.A.N. (Compliance through Law Enforcement and Administrative Notices), and S.E.C.U.R.E. (Seeking the Elimination of Crime by Uniting Residents and Enforcement). He is a graduate of Police Executive Leadership College, the Certified Law Enforcement Executive Program, the Rural Executive Management Institute and the FBI National Academy and a past-president of the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police.

Mike currently serves as the President of the National Association For Search And Rescue. With over 50 years of emergency services service, he is the past Commander and Director of Emergency Services for the Idaho Civil Air Patrol. Mike is a 22-year member of the Bonneville County Sheriff’s SAR team in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He has extensive experience in search and rescue; law enforcement; emergency medicine; disaster and emergency services - serving at corporate, local, state, and federal levels. Mike retired as a Lt Colonel from the US Army Reserve in 2006, with 34 years of active and reserve service. Mike has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Safety and has served as an Affiliate Instructor teaching Emergency Management courses for the University of Idaho. He retired from active emergency medical work in 2014, having been an Emergency Medical Technician since 1972, having served as a Wilderness EMT, and Tactical Medical for the Bonneville County Sheriff’s SWAT team.

Patsy Sabatelli is a STIS with the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. He brings 8 years of FBI experience, all dealing in some capacity with the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) System. In his current position, he manages a team, which provides investigative and operational support to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies nationwide. Prior to becoming an STIS, Patsy worked in the NCIC Program Office where he liaised with law enforcement and criminal justice agencies promulgating NCIC policies and procedures.

Rene Cayer retired at Captain rank from police department; he completed 27 years with Surete du Quebec. He has a wealth of experience in tactical response (SWAT) where he has worked for 13 years in various functions, and finally left the tactical world after serving as commander of the tactical team. He served with the Emergency Measures Directorate from 2010 to 2016; he coordinated the emergency measures programs for 3 years and spend the last 3 years of his police career in the role of coordinator of operations related to emergency management. In that assignment he managed many high risk missions including natural disasters, violent riots, Search and Rescue missions and finally many major incidents in the role of Strategic Incident Commander like in the train derailment in Lac-Megantic where the explosion of 72 fuel wagon resulted in the destruction of the downtown area and took the life of 47 persons.

Robert J. Kaiser, Jr., B.A., J.D. is a 40-year veteran prosecutor. Bob spent nine years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney’s office, from 1978 to 1987. In 1987, Bob came to Wisconsin as an Assistant District Attorney in the Felony Unit of the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, in Madison. In 2014, he joined the Criminal Litigation Unit of the Wisconsin Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General. Bob has prosecuted all types of felony and domestic violence cases as both a trial and appellate lawyer. He has lectured on all aspects of prosecution and investigation of crimes, including but not limited to murder, child abuse, sexual assault, gang crimes, stalking, sexual assault, strangulation, the defense of insanity, the rules of evidence, prosecutor ethics, all aspects of trial practice, witness preparation, and plea negotiations. Bob is a certified Trial Advocacy Instructor by the National Institute o

Dr. Robert J. Koester first joined the Appalachian Search & Rescue Conference in 1981. He earned a Ph.D. in search theory from the University of Portsmouth and a MS in biology (neurobiology) from the University of Virginia. His contributions to Search and Rescue include, seminal research on lost person behavior (with emphasis on dementia) and the International Search and Rescue Incident Database (ISRID). As a Search Mission Coordinator and instructor for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, Robert has also worked for the United States Coast Guard, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Park Service, Department of Homeland Security, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. Author of numerous books and articles on search and rescue, including Lost Person Behavior he is currently co-editor of the Journal of Search and Rescue. Recently he has been developing search and rescue software called FIND as CEO of dbS.

Russell Myers has served the FBI CJIS Division for over 22 years, where he has been assigned to the NCIC Program Office for the past 3 years. In this role, he is directly responsible for promulgating national policy for the NCIC System. His area of specialization is the Missing Person, Unidentified Person, Gang, and Violent Person Files. Prior to working with NCIC, Mr. Myers served as a technical security auditor for the FBI CJIS Audit Unit for 7 years, ensuring national compliance to the CJIS Security Policy.

Steven is the Director for the United States Indian Police Academy, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services in Artesia, New Mexico. Since joining the BIA-OJS in 1989, he has worked in almost every law enforcement position serving as a police officer, Sergeant/Instructor, Special Agent, Chief of Police, and Deputy Chief of Training. He was promoted to the Assistant District Commander, and later the Special Agent in Charge position for the Phoenix District; and Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Billings District. In 2012, Mr. Juneau was promoted to Deputy Associate Director at the BIA Headquarters in Washington, DC. He led the Law Enforcement Division, which consists of all nine District Offices throughout the Nation. In 2014, Mr. Juneau was promoted to Associate Director for the Professional Standards Directorate, which he supervised the Inspection and Evaluation Unit, Physical Security Unit, National Policy, and the United States Indian Police Academy.

Stuart is a Detective with the Phoenix Police Department with the Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit. He began his career with the Department in 1996 as a Police Officer. Since becoming a Detective in 2008, he has investigated thousands of missing person cases, some of which received widespread media attention and have been spotlighted on such programs as 20/20 and Disappeared. He has been featured in books and articles about missing and unidentified person cases, including Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber and The Long Term Missing by Silvia Pettem. In 2011, Stuart helped found the Arizona Missing Person Investigator Association, an organization with the goal of providing best practices and case studies for missing person cases. From 2012 to 2017, Stuart was one of two detectives tasked with investigating over 200 long-term missing and unidentified person cases for the Phoenix Police Department. This resulted in dozens of resolved cold cases.

Professor Timothy Palmbach joined the faculty of the University of New Haven (UNH) in 2004. He is founder of Center for Forensic Investigation of Trafficking in Persons at UNH, which is committed to providing research, training, and investigative assistance to government agencies in the US and abroad. Since 2013, Professor Palmbach has been engaged with the implementation of advanced forensic investigative methods in the war against trafficking in persons and related issues, such as counter terrorism. He worked in conjunction with non-governmental organizations and government officials to actually employ the collection of DNA based evidence. His international work in this area includes the countries of Nepal, Costa Rica, Poland, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Djibouti, and Jordan. Throughout his 34-year career, Timothy has used his expertise in forensic science and investigations for matters of international interest, human rights, and counter terrorism.

Uzma Javed has served with the U.S. Department of State since 2010. She began her career in the Department with the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs as a foreign affairs officer focusing on India. She served at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi in 2013, at which time we developed a passion for consular work. Soon after, Uzma joined the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of American Citizen Services (ACS), where she worked as the country officer for West Africa. Uzma currently serves as the country officer for Mexico in ACS.