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Presentations
Exposing the Connections Between All Forms of Sexual Exploitation
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Speakers
More than 60 experts are expected to present at the 2018 CESE Summit. Check back regularly to see updated list.
Melissa Farley, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Prostitution Research & Education
We will fail to end paid-for sexual assaults of children and youth (called child prostitution) unless we also end paid sexual assaults of adults (called sex work or voluntary prostitution)
Angela
Mother of Jane Doe #3
Mary Mazzio
Founder and CEO
50 Eggs
I AM JANE DOE and Section 230
Marian Hatcher
Senior Project Manager and Human Trafficking Coordinator
Cook County Sheriff’s Office
"National Johns Suppression Initiative” A Collaborative Demand Deterrence and Disruption Tactic
Chyng Sun, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor
New York University
Naked Aggression: Pornography and Eroticized Violence
Sharon W. Cooper, MD FAAP
CEO
Developmental and Forensic Pediatrics, PA
1) New Definition of Trafficking & The Role of Pornography; 2) The Lifelong Threat of Abusive Images: Groundbreaking New Research on Survivors
Valiant Richey
Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Addressing Demand as Solution to Sex Trafficking
Melinda Tankard Reist
Melinda Tankard Reist
How Pornography Fuels and Legitimises Violence Against Women; Why sex is not work: Stories from the sex trade. How should we respond?
Ernie Allen
Former President and CEO
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
Corroding Childhood: Protecting Children from Internet Pornography
Gail Dines, Ph.D.
President, Culture Reframed
Professor, Wheelock College
1. Building Resilience and Resistance to Porn Culture in our Children; 2. From Anti-Porn to Pro- Porn in one Generation: What Happened to Mainstream Feminism?
Jeanne L. Allert, M.Ed.
Founder and Executive Director
The Samaritan Women
Assumptions vs. Realities in Long-term Survivor Care
Matt Aujero
Campus Minister
Catholic Student Center at University of Maryland
Fight Club: An accountability recovery model for college men
Mary Bawden
Founder & Director
Soul to Sole Choreography & DA:NCE
Children’s Dance: Educational or Sexualized
Lacy Alajna Bentley
Founder & CEO
Women United Recovery Coalition
Female Dynamics of Pornography Prevention, Usage, and Exploitation
Tina Bien-Aime
Executive Director
Coalition Against Trafficking In Women (CATW)
Motivating Action Panel: Innovative & Influential Activist & Education Strategies
Sam Black
VP of Partnerships
Covenant Eyes
Ditching the Lonesome Blues: Data and Details About the Value of Accountability
Freda Boakye
Research Assistant
Humanist Movement, Ghana Chapter
Prostitution in Ghana: Understanding Entry Paths and How to Develop Ways to Exit
Karla Bruno
Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations
Leadership Institute
You Can’t Save the World if you Can’t Pay the Rent: Fundraising Strategy for Small Nonprofits
Monique Antoinette Calderon
Speaker/Advocate
Treasures
1) Panel Member 2) Strip Club Outreach
Amber Rose Carlson
PhD. Candidate in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Belief as a Precursor for Change
Karen Countryman-Roswurm, Ph.D., LMSW
Founder and Executive Director
Wichita State University, Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT)
Legislating Love, Not LockUp: A Look At Progress and Pitfalls of Anti-Trafficking Law
Leah Darrow
Speaker, Author, Former Contestant America’s Next Top Model
Worth More Than a Thousand Words: Battling Sexual Objectification
Ron DeHaas
President and Founder
Covenant Eyes
The Landscape of Technology in Pornography – Threats and Opportunities
Reverend Joseph Dennis
President
Strategies 4 Life and Join 1 Million
Pornography In The Church: What Faith Communities Need to Know and Do
Rachel Denton
Masters Student
Reach 10
Millennials Connecting for Change
Katie Feifer
Founding Co-Chair
World Without Exploitation
Marketing a Movement
John D. Foubert, Ph.D., LLC
National President, One in Four
Senior Advisor for Prevention to the U.S. Army SHARP Program
Pornography and Sexual Assault: The Latest Research
Wendy Francis
Director
Centre for Human Dignity
Panel Member
Ran Gavrieli
Founder
ELSE – Eye Level Sex Education
Math 6 – Love 0
Glendyne Gerrard, BBS
Director
Defend Dignity
Panel Member
Daniel D. Gray LCSW, CSAT
Co-Founder and Clinical Director of LifeStar Network
LifeStar Network
Keeping the Helper Healthy: Self Care Strategies in Avoiding Compassion Fatigue and Burn Out
Haley Halverson
Director of Communications
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
The New Normal: The Threat of Sexual Predation in Dating Relationships
Jeffrey Harmon
Chief Marketing Officer
VidAngel
Make Entertainment Good for Your Home - Lamp Lighters Banquet Speaker
Tina Harris
RYT500
Holy Yoga
Holy Yoga Slow Flow
Dawn Hawkins
Sr. Vice President
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
Making our Schools Exploitation-Free Zones
Rita Maria Hernandez
Executive Director, Comisión Unidos vs Trata and Vice Chair, CAP International
The Border Between Mexico and the USA: More Than a Migrant Problem
Jacob Hess, P.h.D.
Co-founder
All of Life
Proposing a New Way to Help People Recognize Porn-Science Propaganda When They See It
Melissa Holland
Founder & Executive Director
Awaken
Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in Nevada
Robert Houston
President
Praesidium Partners
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Illicit Massage Industry in the United States
Donna M. Hughes, Ph.D.
Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Professor Gender and Women’s Studies and Criminology and Criminal Justice Programs, University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
Details Coming
Mahri Irvine, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
American University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Impact of Child Sexual Abuse on Women’s Entry into Prostitution
Robert Jensen
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
What’s Patriarchy Got to Do with It and Why Should Men Care?
Kristen Jenson, MA
Founder and Author
Protect Young Minds
1) 10 Proactive Ways to Protect Young Minds from Pornography 2) Why Do Kids Hire Porn? Borrowing a Business Theory to Get to Root Cause of Why Kids Seek Out and Use Pornography
Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair of Sociology Programs
Virginia Commonwealth University
Current Research on Economics and Usage Patterns by College-aged Men and Women
Tom Jones
Founder
The H.O.P.E. Project
Life After Trauma: Perspectives from Survivor Advocates - Panel Member
Kimberly Jones
Restoration Foster Care Program Director
Arrow Child & Family Ministries
Restoration Foster Care: Filling the Gap for Commercially Sex Trafficked Children
Anne Kerr
Founder & CEO
TrueNorth Freedom Project
Porn and Christians: Our Response, Our Hope, and Our Future
Leigh Kohler
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Freedom Church Alliance
Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Addressing Sexual Exploitation in and with the Church
Rick Lane
Strategic Advisor
National & International Activism & Engagement
Mary Anne Layden, Ph.D.
Director - Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program Center for Cognitive Therapy
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania
1) Changing the Movie and the Message: Moving Beliefs from Toxic to Healthy and 2) PANEL: Put Your Mask On First: Taking Care of the Caregivers
Mary G. Leary
Professor
The Catholic University of America
Digital Sexual Exploitation: The Third Dimension of Victimization
Laura Lederer
President, Global Centurion
Subject Matter Expert on Combating Trafficking in Persons, Department of Defense
1688 - 2017: History of the Development of the 21st Century Anti-trafficking & Modern Slavery Movement
John Lemp
Founder and CEO
RevContent
PANEL: Worth a Thousand Words: Battling Sexual Objectification
Melody Lovvorn
Life and Relationship Coach
Undone, Redone
Out of the Shadows: How Toxic Shame Fuels Sexual Exploitation
Kevin Malone
President of the Board
U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking
Building a World Championship Team to End Human Trafficking
Holly-ann Martin
Managing Director
Safe4Kids
Whole of Community Approach to Child Abuse Prevention Education in Indigenous Communities
Dorothy Maryon
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
LifeStar
"What Doesn't Kill You." Posttraumatic Growth in an Age of Betrayal Trauma.
Natale McAneney
Executive Director
Fight the New Drug
Ready or Not, Porn is Influencing the Way Teens Think About Sex and Intimacy
Shamere McKenzie
Anti-trafficking Program Director, Salvation Army of Central Maryland
CEO, Sun Gate Foundation
Best Practices for Working with Survivors Leaders of Human Trafficking
Darryl Mead, PhD
Chair
The Reward Foundation
Update Presentation
Errol Naidoo
Founder & CEO
Family Policy Institute – South Africa
Why the Battle Against Sexual Exploitation in South Africa and Africa is Critical
Susan Norris
Founder and Executive Director
Rescuing Hope
Walking Life with Survivors Who Won’t Choose Long Term Residential Recovery Programs
Dan O’Bryant
Board Member
Shared Hope International
Inextricably Bound - Strip Clubs, Prostitution and Trafficking
Kelly Oliver
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy
Vanderbilt University
Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from the Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Clay Olsen
Founder and CEO
Fight the New Drug
PANEL: Grassroots Activism & Engagement
Heidi Olson, RN, BSN, CPN
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program Coordinator
Children’s Mercy Hospital
The Rise of Child Sexual Assault and Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Look at the Role of Pornography
Creed Orme
Student
Reach 10
Millennials Connecting for Change
Dave Paisley
Executive Director
Over 18 Documentary
Invitation to attend screening of Over 18 & Over 18 Documentary Screening
Morgan Perry
Film Producer
Exodus Cry
The Power of Creative Media to Abolish Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Cabot Phillips
Media Director
Campus Reform, Leadership Institute
1)Online Activism: Techniques to Seek Out, Engage, and Activate Your Online Following and 2)Workshop on Online Activism
Shyam Kumar Pokharel
Director
Samrakshak Samuha Nepal (SASANE)
Global Update - Nepal
Joseph Prud’homme, Ph.D
Director
Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, Washington College
PANEL: Worth Thousand Words: Battling Sexual Objectification
Peter Qualliotine
Co-Founder/Director of Men’s Accountability
Organization for Prostitution Survivors
1) Review Boards, Male Bonding and Commercial Sexual Exploitation; 2) Engaging Men and Boys to End Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Christine Raino
Senior Director of Public Policy
Shared Hope International
Safe Harbor Laws
Andrea Requenes
Texas Regional Director
Arrow Child & Family Ministries
Restoration Foster Care: Filling the Gap for Commercially Sex Trafficked Children
Malissa Richardson
Officer
Reach 10
Rally - Courage is Contagious
Geoffrey Rogers
CEO
U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking
Where is the Outrage in America About Human Trafficking
Scooter Schaefer
Director of Digital Marketing
CEI
1) Building Your Brand and 2) Branding Consultations
Rachel Semmel
Director of Media Relations
District Media Group (Leadership Institute)
1)Effective Media Techniques Training; 2)On-Camera TV Training
Mary Sharpe, Advocate
CEO
The Reward Foundation
Update Presentation
Dr. John Shosky, P.H.D
President
Roncalli Communications, Inc.
Public Speaking for Activists and Advocates
Sharon Slater
President
Family Watch International
Protecting Children from Pornographic Materials in the Schools – Comprehensive Sexuality/Sexualization Education Exposed
Liza E. Smoker, Esq.
Partner
Rogers, Morris & Ziegler LLP
Effective Grassroots Lobbying
Jay Stringer, M.Div, LMHC
Psychotherapist | Researcher | Author
Who Watches Porn: Research Finds 4 Key Predictors of Porn Use
Steve Sutton
Vice President of Development
Leadership Institute
A Day on the Hill: How to Communicate for Change with Policymakers
Debi Tengler
Chief Relations Officer
Arrow Child & Family Ministries
Restoration Foster Care: Filling the Gap for Commercially Sex Trafficked Children
Lisa L. Thompson
Vice President of Policy & Research
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
When Worlds Collide: Social Media and XXX | The Global Supply Chain of Sexual Exploitation | PANEL: #MeToo: Inconsistencies, Divides, and Pitfalls in the Movement to End Sexual Assault & Rape Culture
Alex Trouteaud, Ph.D.
Director of Policy and Research
Demand Abolition
Sex-Buying Accelerants: Pornography and other Normalizing Forces
Arnold Viersen
Canadian Member of Parliament
Legislative Actions Combatting Sexual Exploitation in Canada
Kellee Walker
Director of CST Services
Arrow Child & Family Ministries
Restoration Foster Care: Filling the Gap for Commercially Sex Trafficked Children
Gary Wilson
Author of Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
www.YourBrainOnPorn.com
Porn Research: Fact and Fiction
Special Event: Day On The Hill
Engaging federal leaders to end sexploitation
Events will take place on April 4th at the Hyatt Regency and the U.S. Capitol and Congressional offices. A bus will transport the first 120 people to sign up for the day. Others will be responsible for their own travel to and from the Capitol.
This portion of the CESE Summit is hosted by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. World Without Exploitation, and the Leadership Institute.
You must RSVP for this portion of the Summit when registering. Email events@ncose.com with questions.
Time | Event |
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9:00am | Trainings: How to Communicate for Change with Policymakers & Policy Goals for the End Exploitation Movement |
Noon | Box Lunch & Travel to U.S. Capitol |
1:30pm | Meetings with your Representatives and Canvassing the Capitol |
5:00pm | Dinner on your own at Union Station |
6:00pm | Transportation to CESE Summit Hotel |

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Exhibit Sponsors
- Barbara Amaya, CDA, Ph.D.
- Center for Combating Human Traffi cking, Wichita
- State University
- Centre for Human Dignity. United Against Sexual
- Exploitation
- Closing Pandora’s Box
- Closing Pandora’s Box
- Culture Reframed
- The Diamond Heart Foundation
- Dirty Girls Ministries
- Dr. John D. Foubert, LLC
- Educate Empower Kids
- ENC Stop Human Traffi cking Now
- Forgotten Children
- Fortify
- Freedom U
- Hazel & Deene
- Hope for the Sold & Over 18
- In Our Backyard
- Jeromy Darlings
- New Hope Treatment Centers
- Northern Virginia Human Traffi cking Initiative
- Safe4Kids
- The Salvation Army
- The Samaritan Women
- Undone Redone
- We Stand Gaurd
- Wichita State University, Center for Combating
- Human Trafficking
- Women at Risk International
- Women United Recovery Coalition