Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor, Duke University Medical Center;
Co-Director, UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Beyond ACEs (Season 1, Episode 11; December 4, 2019)
Re-released as Best of the Best: Beyond ACEs (Season 5, Episode 6; April 21, 2023)
Patrick M. Anderson
CEO, RurAL CAP (Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc.)
“A Pathway to Healing” (Season 3, Episode 6; April 1, 2021)
Caitlin Andrews
Investigative Reporter, Bangor Daily News
“Taking Stock: The Plan to End Child Abuse Deaths, Five Years On” (Season 3, Episode 1; August 31, 2021)
Marina Bassili
Licensed psychologist and adjunct faculty, Pepperdine University
“Cultural Considerations Working With Middle Eastern and North African Families” (Season 5, Episode 19; November 23, 2023)
Nina Bertele
Research Fellow, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
“The Surprising Prevalence of Sibling Sexual Abuse” (Season 4, Episode 4; March 11, 2022)
Nicole M. Bianchi
Founding Partner, Bravium HD
“Small Brave Moves for a Life-Changing Field” (Season 5, Episode 8; May 19, 2023)
Stephanie Block, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UMass Lowell
“Why Aren’t More Child Sexual Abuse Cases Prosecuted?” (Season 4, Episode 18; October 20, 2022)
Seth Boughton, MSW
Director of Data and Innovative Techniques, Ohio Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers
“Practical Magic: Understanding Lived Experience Through Data” (Season 5, Episode 3; March 13, 2023)
Maya Brennan
Senior Policy Associate, Research to Action Lab, Urban Institute
“Housing Instability and Child Welfare” (Season 1, Episode 9; September 13, 2019)
Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Center for Child and Family Health;
Director, Data and Evaluation Program, UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress;
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
“The Limits of ACEs” (Season 4, Episode 10; June 10, 2022)
“The Hidden Cost of Resilience” (Season 2, Episode 2; January 10, 2020)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: The Hidden Cost of Resilience” (Season 2, Episode 14; July 17, 2020)
Melissa Bright, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director; Center for Violence Prevention Research
“Making Prevention Education Accessible for All” (Season 6, Episode 3; April 4, 2024)
Deondra Brown
Pianist; Community Outreach Specialist, Utah Attorney General’s Office
“Engaging the Hope Within Us” (Season 3, Episode 4; March 11, 2021)
Gregory Brown
Pianist/Educator
“Engaging the Hope Within Us” (Season 3, Episode 4; March 11, 2021)
Melissa Brymer, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Program, UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
“Addressing the Needs of Children and Families After Mass Violence” (Season 5, Episode 9; June 15, 2023)
Nelson Bunn
Executive Director, National District Attorneys Association
“Centering Survivors in the Law: Criminal Justice Crystal Ball, Part 3” (Season 2, Episode 21; December 10, 2020)
“The Future of Prosecution: Criminal Justice Crystal Ball Series, Part 1” (Season 2, Episode 19; November 5, 2020)
Paul Bywaters, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Work, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield
“How Inequality Fuels Child Abuse” (Season 5, Episode 13; September 5, 2023)
Katie Connell, MSW
Unit Chief, Child Victim Services Unit, FBI
“Growing Up Online: Addressing Child Sextortion” (Season 5, Episode 5; April 7, 2023)
Amanda L. Connella
Graduate Research Assistant, TIP Lab, University of South Florida
“Boys: The Invisible Victims of Child Sex Trafficking” (Season 6, Episode 4; April 19, 2024)
Stephen J. Cozza, MD
Researcher and Professor, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University
“Trauma and Resiliency in Military Families” (Season 3, Episode 13; September 16, 2021)
Elizabeth Cross, Ph.D.
Owner and CEO, Cross Associates Research & Evaluation Services, LLC;
Adjunct Professor of Social Work and Child Advocacy, Montclair State University
“A Sea of Red Dots: The Explosion in Online Child Sexual Abuse” (Season 6, Episode 2; February 12, 2024)
Theodore P. Cross, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist, Research Professor, Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“A Sea of Red Dots: The Explosion in Online Child Sexual Abuse” (Season 6, Episode 2; February 12, 2024)
“The Future of Possible in Children’s Advocacy Centers” (Season 4, Episode 14; August 25, 2022)
Dyann Daley, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiologist;
Founder and CEO, Predict Align Prevent
“Is Abuse Contagious?” (Season 2, Episode 18; October 8, 2020)
Jason Dickinson, Ph.D.
Acting Chairperson, Social Work and Child Advocacy, Montclair State University
“The Intersection of Technology and Forensic Interviewing” (Season 2, Episode 11; May 28, 2020)
Paul DiLorenzo, ACSW, MLSP
Interim Executive Director, Philadelphia Children’s Alliance
“Neglect and the Ecosystem of Abuse” (Season 3, Episode 3; February 18, 2021)
Carrie Epstein, LCSW-R
Co-Director, Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery;
Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center
“PTSD Interrupted?” (Season 5, Episode 2; February 17, 2023)
Michelle Esrick
Filmmaker
“Treating the Smoke and Not the Fire” (Season 1, Episode 6; July 12, 2019)
David Finkelhor, Ph.D.
Sociology Professor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, and
Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire
“Bonus Content: Universal Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences” (Season 2, Episode 10; May 21, 2020)
“Bad News Is a Story; Good News Is a Statistic” (Season 2, Episode 7; April 10, 2020)
Justin Fitzsimmons
Associate Vice President, National White Collar Crime Center
“Collateral Damage: Kids and the Internet Privacy Wars” (Season 4, Episode 9; May 26, 2022)
Jonathan Golding, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental, Social, and Health Psychology, University of Kentucky
“Fighting Back: What Jurors Don’t Get About Abuse” (Season 5, Episode 11; July 31, 2023)
Gail S. Goodman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Center for Public Policy Research, University of California, Davis
“How Accurate Is Memory After 20 Years?” (Season 4, Episode 1; January 27, 2022)
Jordan Greenbaum, MD
Director of the Global Initiative for Child Health and Well-Being, International Center for Missing and Exploited Children
“The Trauma They Carried” (Season 3, Episode 10; July 15, 2021)
Angela Grimberg
Executive Director, the Coalition for Responsible Home Education
“Keeping Kids Safe in the Homeschool Boom” (Season 5, Episode 20; December 8, 2023)
Sherry Hamby, Ph.D.
Director, Life Paths Research Center; Founder, ResilienceCon
“Mending the Tears of Violence” (Season 2, Episode 4; February 14, 2020)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: Greater Than the Sum–Multiple Adversities in Children’s Lives” (Season 2, Episode 15; August 6, 2020)
Marci A. Hamilton
Professor of Practice, Department of Political Science, and Fox Family Pavilion Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Program for Research on Religion, University of Pennsylvania;
Founder, CEO, and Academic Director, CHILD USA
“The True Cost of Olympic Gold” (Season 4, Episode 3; February 25, 2022)
“Radically Vulnerable: Achieving Justice for Survivors” (Season 1, Episode 10; September 30, 2019)
Darrell Hammond
Actor and Comedian
“Treating the Smoke and Not the Fire” (Season 1, Episode 6; July 12, 2019)
Amy C. Harfeld, JD
National Policy Advocate and Senior Staff Attorney, Children’s Advocacy Institute, University of San Diego
“Taking Stock: The Plan to End Child Abuse Deaths, Five Years On” (Season 3, Episode 1; August 31, 2021)
Mathias H. Heck, Jr.
Prosecutor, Montgomery County, Ohio
“COVID-19 and Criminal Justice” (Season 2, Episode 6; March 27, 2020)
James Herbert, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
“Multidisciplinary Teams: What’s the Secret Sauce?” (Season 3, Episode 16; November 25, 2021)
Christine James-Brown
President and CEO, Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
“Building a Smaller, Fairer, and Better Child Welfare System” (Season 4, Episode 17; October 7, 2022)
Elizabeth Jeglic, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Co-Director, Sex Offender Research Lab, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“The Real Red Flags of Grooming” (Season 5, Episode 4; March 24, 2023)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: The Real Red Flags of Grooming” (Season 5, Episode 15; September 28, 2023)
Tayler Jones-Cieminski
Doctoral Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Fear of False Allegations” (Season 4, Episode 8; May 12, 2022)
Ernest Jouriles, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director, Family Research Center, SMU
“Why Do Kids Blame Themselves After Abuse?” (Season 5, Episode 10; July 1, 2023)
Rabah Kamal
Senior Policy Analyst, Kaiser Family Foundation
“We’re Not All Having the Same Pandemic” (Season 2, Episode 12; June 11, 2020)
Mark Kavenagh, Ph.D.
Founder and director, Evident Consulting
“Are We Remembering the Boys?”(Season 5, Episode 12: August 17, 2023)
Miranda P. Kaye, Ph.D.
Director, Survey Research Center;
Associate Research Professor, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, The Pennsylvania State University
“When Abuse Strikes Twice” (Season 5, Episode 1; January 27, 2023)
Nat Kendall-Taylor
CEO, FrameWorks Institute
“The Science of Storytelling” (Season 1, Episode 5; June 28, 2019)
Maureen C. Kenny, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Chair, Academic Personnel and Diversity, Florida International University
“Why Do People Believe Conspiracy Theories About Human Trafficking?” (Season 6, Episode 1; January 16, 2024)
Courtney Kiehl, Esq.
Attorney, Paul Mones PC
“The Unique Vulnerability of Youth Athletes” (Season 4, Episode 13; August 5, 2022)
Al Killen-Harvey, LCSW
President and Co-Founder, Harvey Institute
“Beyond Price: Can Kids Trust Us When They Tell Us Who They Are?” (Season 4, Episode 11; June 24, 2022)
Emily Cashman Kirstein
Senior Manager of Government Affairs, Thorn
“Predators in Our Pockets: The New Digital Hunting Grounds” (Season 2, Episode 5; February 28, 2020)
Mary Graw Leary
Professor, The Catholic University of America School of Law
“The Failure That Leads to All Others” (Season 1, Episode 4; June 19, 2019)
Stacie LeBlanc
CEO, The UP Institute
“Let’s Talk About Spanking” (Season 2, Episode 9; May 7, 2020)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: Let’s Talk About Spanking” (Season 5, Episode 14; September 14, 2023)
Yvonne Lei
Medical Student, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
“Sticks and Stones … But What If Words Do Hurt?” (Season 4, Episode 2; February 10, 2022)
Elizabeth Letourneau, Ph.D.
Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Is Child Sexual Abuse Inevitable?” (Season 3, Episode 1; January 7, 2021)
“Child Abuse as a Public Health Issue” (Season 1, Episode 1; May 2, 2019)
Daniela Ligiero, Ph.D.
Executive Director and CEO, Together for Girls
“Prevention, Healing, and Justice: A Blueprint for Action” (Season 3, Episode 18; December 26, 2021)
Anthony P. Mannarino, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair; Director, Center for Traumatic Stress In Children and Adolescents, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Drexel University College of Medicine
“TF-CBT: Helping Kids Get Better” (Season 5, Episode 16; October 16, 2023)
Françoise Mathieu
Executive Director, TEND
“This Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Pacing Yourself Through the Pandemic” (Season 2, Episode 8; April 22, 2020)
“The Edge of Compassion” (Season 1, Episode 8; August 23, 2019)
Elizabeth McGuier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
“What Really Matters in Team Effectiveness?” (Season 4, Episode 21; December 2, 2022)
Joan S. Meier
Professor of Clinical Law and Director, National Family Violence Law Center, George Washington University Law School
“Gender Bias and the Myth of Parental Alienation” (Season 2, Episode 1; January 5, 2020)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: Gender Bias and the Myth of Parental Alienation” (Season 5, Episode 7; May 5, 2023)
Veto Mentzell
Lieutenant, Harford County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland
“Predators in Our Pockets: The New Digital Hunting Grounds” (Season 2, Episode 5; February 28, 2020)
Isha Metzger, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist;
Founder and Director of The EMPOWER Lab; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
“Tailoring TF-CBT to Black Children and Youth” (Season 5, Episode 17; October 27, 2023)
“The Meaning of Healing for Black Kids and Families” (Season 2, Episode 16; August 20, 2020)
Michelle Miller, Ph.D., LCSW
Director of Mental Health Programs, National Children’s Alliance
“Giving Kids Their Futures Back During the Holidays and All the Rest of the Year” (Season 4, Episode 22; December 16, 2022)
Stephen Mills
Author
“Exploring a Memoir of Stolen Boyhood” (Season 4, Episode 7; April 28, 2022)
Jerry Milner, DSW
Director of the Family Integrity and Justice Works, Public Knowledge
“Are We Solving the Wrong Problem in Child Welfare?” (Season 3, Episode 11; July 29, 2021)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: Are We Solving the Wrong Problem in Child Welfare?” (Season 4, Episode 16; September 23, 2022)
Angela Moreland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, MUSC;
Associate Director, National Mass Violence and Victimization Resource Center
“Addressing the Needs of Children and Families After Mass Violence” (Season 5, Episode 9; June 15, 2023)
Caitlyn N. Muniz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Does America Believe Female Sexual Abusers Exist?” (Season 4, Episode 5; April 1, 2022)
Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Filmmaker
“An Interview with Filmmaker Sasha Joseph Neulinger” (Season 3, Episode 2; January 29, 2021)
Araceli Irurzun Pérez
Research Manager, Economist Impact
“America’s Inconsistent Response to Child Sexual Abuse” (Season 4, Episode 20; November 17, 2022)
Debra Poole, Ph.D.
Experimental Faculty, Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University
“The Intersection of Technology and Forensic Interviewing” (Season 2, Episode 11; May 28, 2020)
Jessica Pryce, Ph.D., MSW
Director, Florida Institute for Child Welfare, Florida State University
“Moving Equity to the Center of Child Welfare” (Season 4, Episode 12; July 15, 2022)
Hank T. Puls, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
“Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Child Abuse?” (Season 3, Episode 17; December 9, 2021)
Jonathan Purtle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, and
Director of Policy Research, Global Center for Implementation Science, NYU
“The Limits of ACEs” (Season 4, Episode 10; June 10, 2022)
“The ACEs Message and Its Unintended Consequences” (Season 3, Episode 8; May 20, 2021)
Emily Putnam-Hornstein
Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Social Work;
Director, Children’s Data Network
“Prediction as Prevention” (Season 1, Episode 7; August 5, 2019)
Jenna Quinn
Child Protection Advocate
“The Journey to Jenna’s Law” (Season 3, Episode 7; May 7, 2021)
Libby Ralston
Co-Director, Project BEST
“The Family-Focused Advocate” (Season 1, Episode 12; December 18, 2019)
Shola Richards
Founder and CEO, GoTogether Global
“Shola Richards on the Heart of a Healthy Workplace” (Season 3, Episode 9; June 24, 2021)
Meagan Rides At The Door, Ph.D., LCPC
Director, National Native Children’s Trauma Center, University of Montana College of Education
“What’s Culture Got to Do With It? Everything” (Season 3, Episode 14; October 8, 2021)
Danielle Roubinov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
“Can a Pandemic Have a Silver Lining?” (Season 2, Episode 17; September 10, 2020)
Brad Russ
Executive Director, National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
“What’s Past Is Prologue: Criminal Justice Crystal Ball Series, Part 2” (Season 2, Episode 20; November 19, 2020)
Lia Russell
Investigative Reporter, Bangor Daily News
“Taking Stock: The Plan to End Child Abuse Deaths, Five Years On” (Season 3, Episode 1; August 31, 2021)
Anna Segura-Montagut, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Research Scientist, Family Translational Research Group,
NYU Dentistry Center for Oral Health Policy and Management
“In Bad Faith: When Clergy Abuse” (Season 4, Episode 19; November 4, 2022)
Geoff Sidoli, MSW, LCSW
Coordinator of Mental Health Programs
NCA Institute for Better Mental Health Outcomes
“Understanding Kids With Problematic Sexual Behaviors” (Season 5, Episode 21; December 18, 2023)
Jane Silovsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;
Director, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect;
Director, National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth
“Sexual Behavior in Youth: What’s Normal? What’s Not? And What Can We Do About It?” (Season 3, Episode 15; November 5, 2021)
Amy M. Smith Slep, Ph.D.
Professor, Family Translational Research Group, New York University
“Glimpsing the Iceberg: Corporal Punishment and Physical Abuse” (Season 5, Episode 18; November 13, 2023)
Melissa Sommerville, LMHC
Project Director, Mobile Child and Family Trauma Treatment Team, Best Self Behavioral Health
“Addressing the Needs of Children and Families After Mass Violence” (Season 5, Episode 9; June 15, 2023)
Suzanne Starling, MD
Board-Certified Child Abuse Pediatrician;
Medical Director and Associate Center Director, Chadwick Center for Children and Families,
Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego;
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego
“Addressing the Doctor Deficit” (Season 3, Episode 5; March 25, 2021)
Sandra Stone, Ph.D.
Professor and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, University of South Florida
“Boys: The Invisible Victims of Child Sex Trafficking” (Season 6, Episode 4; April 19, 2024)
Julie Sweetland, Ph.D.
Sociolinguist and Senior Advisor, FrameWorks Institute
“Reframing Childhood Adversity” (Season 4, Episode 6; April 14, 2022)
Carole Campbell Swiecicki, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center;
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
“We’re Not All Having the Same Pandemic” (Season 2, Episode 12; June 11, 2020)
Stefan Turkheimer
Vice President for Public Policy, RAINN
“A Sea of Red Dots: The Explosion in Online Child Sexual Abuse” (Season 6, Episode 2; February 12, 2024)
Yasmin Vafa
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Rights4Girls
“The Child-Trafficking-to-Adult-Prostitution Pipeline” (Season 2, Episode 3; January 24, 2020)
Victor Vieth
Chief Program Officer, Education and Research, Zero Abuse Project;
Founder, National Child Protection Training Center
“Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil” (Season 1, Episode 2; May 13, 2019)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil” (Season 4, Episode 15; September 8, 2022)
Wendy A. Walsh, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Sociology, Crimes Against Children Research Center,
University of New Hampshire
“The Bystander Effect–Why People Don’t Report Child Abuse” (Season 1, Episode 3; May 31, 2019)
Re-released as “Best of the Best: The Bystander Effect” (Season 2, Episode 13; July 2, 2020)