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Jacquelyn Campbell is a national leader in research and advocacy in the field of domestic violence or intimate partner violence (IPV). Her expertise is frequently sought by national and international policy makers in exploring IPV and its health effects on families and communities. 

Her most recent research in health sequelae has been foundational for the areas of the intersection of HIV and violence against women and how head injuries and strangulation from intimate partner violence can result in undiagnosed and untreated Traumatic Brain Injury. She has consistently advocated for addressing health inequities of marginalized women in this country and globally affected by experiences of violence.  

She has served as Principle Investigator on 14 federally funded collaborative research investigations through the National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Justice, Department of Defense, the Department of Justice (Office of Violence Against Women), and Centers for Disease Control to examine intimate partner homicide and other forms of violence against women as well as interventions and policy initiatives to improve the justice and health care system response. This work has paved the way for a growing body of interdisciplinary knowledge about experiences of violence and health outcomes, risk assessment for lethal and near-lethal domestic violence, and coordinated system (justice, social services, and health) responses to address intimate partner violence.

Dr. Campbell has published more than 270 articles, 56 book chapters and seven books, in addition to developing the Danger Assessment, an instrument to assist abused women in accurately determining their level of danger. The Danger Assessment is also the basis of the Lethality Assessment Program (MNADV LAP) for first responders to assess risk of homicide of domestic violence survivors and connect those at high risk with domestic violence services. In collaboration with Dr. Nancy Glass, originator of myPlan, a decision aid for IPV survivors, she is leading an NIH-funded cultural adaptation of myPlan for immigrant and indigenous women.

Elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2000, Dr. Campbell also was the Institute of Medicine/American Academy of Nursing/American Nurses' Foundation Senior Scholar in Residence and was founding co-chair of the IOM Forum on the Prevention of Global Violence. Other honors include the Pathfinder Distinguished Researcher by the Friends of the National Institute of Health National Institute for Nursing Research, Outstanding Alumna and Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Science Awards, Duke University School of Nursing, the American Society of Criminology Vollmer Award, and being named one of the inaugural 17 Gilman Scholars at Johns Hopkins University. She is on the Board of Directors for Futures Without Violence, is an active member of the Johns Hopkins Women鈥檚 Health Research Group, and has served on the boards of the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter and four other shelters. She was a member of the congressionally appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence. 

Professor Mary A. Lynch is the Kate Stoneman Chair in Law and Democracy. A magna cum laude graduate of New York University and a cum laude graduate from Harvard Law School, she served as an assistant district attorney in New York County from 1985-1989. She joined the Albany Law School faculty in 1989 and for the past twenty years has directed the Domestic Violence Prosecution Hybrid Clinic. During her tenure at Albany Law, she taught and directed the Disabilities Law Clinic, the Field Placement Clinic and the Post-Conviction Remedies Clinic. In 1997, while serving as director of Albany Law鈥檚 Domestic Violence Law Project, she and seven Albany Law School students won a groundbreaking clemency case for an incarcerated battered woman who killed her abuser.

The range of courses she has taught includes Criminal Procedure Adjudication, Disabilities Law Seminar, Domestic Violence Law Seminar, Pre-Trial and Trial Practice Courses (civil and criminal), and Litigation Planning and Skills.  Her scholarship has focused on multicultural awareness in legal education and law practice, gender bias, violence against women and legal education reform. From 2001 to 2009, Professor Lynch directed or co-directed the Albany Law Clinic & Justice Center. Albany Law School has honored her with the Excellence in Teaching Award (2014) and the Kate Stoneman Special Recognition Award for contributions to the advancement of women in the legal profession (2014).

Professor Lynch has played a leadership role in the movement to modernize legal education. From 2007 to 2020, she served as the Editor and frequent contributor of the award-winning Best Practices for Legal Education Blog and from 2009 to 2020 as the Director of the Center for Excellence in Law Teaching (CELT) at Albany Law School. Nationally, she has served as co-president and on the board of the Clinical Legal Education Association (an organization with over 1200 members) and as an executive committee and board member of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education.  Within New York State, she served on the state bar鈥檚 Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (LEAB) from 2011-2015 and from 2010-11 on the Future of the Legal Profession Taskforce, chairing the subcommittee on 鈥淓ducating and Training New Lawyers鈥�.

Professor Lynch has served on countless statewide and community coalitions and taskforces related to over her 30+ year career.  She has been honored by the National NOW鈥檚 Capital Region division with the Making Waves award and as an Irish Legal 100 Honoree by the Irish Voice and as a Top 100 Irish-American by Irish America magazine.

Jill Messing specializes in intervention research.

As associate professor in the School of Social Work, her research areas include intimate partner violence, risk assessment, domestic homicide and femicide, criminal justice-social service collaborations and evidence-based practice.

Messing is the Principal Investigator on the National Institute of Justice funded Oklahoma Lethality Assessment Study, which examines the effectiveness of the Lethality Assessment Program across 7 jurisdictions in Oklahoma, and the co-Investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health funded study The Use of Computerized Safety Decision Aids with Victims of Intimate Partner Violence.

Beth Livingston is a professor of management and entrepreneurship in the University of Iowa鈥檚 Tippie College of Business. She is an expert in gender dynamics in the office and how domestic and intimate partner violence impacts the workplace. She has partnered with Yves St. Laurent Beauty to develop a new online training initiative that helps people identify and provide assistance to women who are victims of domestic and intimate partner violence. The online modules help people identify the warning signs of intimate partner violence and provide strategies to help them. The training modules will be rolled out in September and can be used by businesses, social service agencies, schools, churches, and individuals.

Nicholas Mazza, PhD, is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Florida State University, College of Social Work, Tallahassee, FL. Dr. Mazza holds Florida licenses in psychology, clinical social work, and marriage and family therapy. He's been involved in the practice, research, and teaching of poetry therapy for over 40 years. He says that poetry鈥檚 unique use of language, symbol, story and rhythm has been effective in therapeutic settings. And while typically a solitary act, sharing poetry can provide additional healing and support.

Dr. Mazza is the author of Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition (2022); and Editor of a 4-volume series, Expressive Therapies (published by Routledge). He is also the founding (1987) and continuing editor of the Journal of Poetry Therapy: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Practice, Theory, Research, and Education. He is president and continuing board member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT). In 1997, Dr. Mazza received the Pioneer Award; and in 2017, the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from NAPT.

He can:
-Discuss why poetry is in a 鈥渇ull on鈥� renaissance
-Discuss why poetry is such a simple yet powerful therapeutic practice
-How writing poetry impacts positive mental and emotional health
-Poetry鈥檚 unique ability to express emotions and provide release
-How poetry can assist in coping with loss, recovery, trauma, violence and more
-Yet, it can also connect people and build community and support
-Offer tips and advice on getting started with poetry for therapy

Dr. Mazza is a widely published scholar and poet. He can offer tips and advice for getting started with poetry, discuss why it is such a therapeutic practice, why it is seeing a renaissance. In addition to poetry therapy, Dr. Mazza has practiced, taught, and published in the areas of crisis intervention, death and trauma, family therapy, group work, clinical theories and models, and the arts in community practice. Dr. Mazza, a marathon runner, is the founder of the College of Social Work Arts and Athletics Community Outreach Program for At-Risk Youth established at Florida State University (FSU) in 2011.

Jennifer L. Brinkley, an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, has a J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law, practiced law and taught at both the University of Colorado at Denver and at Western Kentucky University before joining UWF in 2019.  She teaches courses on women and the law, criminal procedure, evidence, legal research and writing, family law, law and society, among others.

Brinkley鈥檚 research focuses on women and the law issues.  She has an interest in gender and the judiciary in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her peer-reviewed work has been published in South Carolina Law Review, LMU Law Review, Kentucky Bench & Bar, The Legal Educator, and The Young Lawyer.

Brinkley has experience working for a civil law firm, in a solo law practice, in a corporate position, and as a prosecutor.

Degrees & Institutions:
Brinkley received a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting and a Master of Arts in Criminology from Western Kentucky University.  She earned her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law. 

Research:
Women and the law
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gender and the Judiciary in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Criminal law issues
Special Interests:
Outside of the classroom, Brinkley enjoys going to the beach, spending time with her son, and playing with her greyhound, Nui.  Brinkley has been married to her husband, David, since 2005.  They share one child, Gauge.

Publications:
Brinkley, J. (2021) Sanctuary Cities and Counties for the Unborn:  The Use of Resolutions and Ordinances to Restrict Abortion Access. Northern Illinois University Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2021).

Brinkley, J. (2021). Crises Collide:  Examining the Intersection of Sex Trafficking and Opioid Use. Kentucky Law Journal (forthcoming Spring 2021).

Brinkley, J. (2020). A Path Forward: Florida鈥檚 Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking. 71 South Carolina Law Review 3.

Brinkley, J. (2020). Human Trafficking and the Practice of Law. South Carolina Law Review Spring 2020.

Brinkley, J. (2019). Opioid Crisis and the Law: An Examination of Efforts Made in Kentucky, 70 South Carolina Law Review 3.

Brinkley, J. (2019). Ruth Bader Ginsburg:  Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU. 6 Lincoln Memorial Law Review 1.

Brinkley, J.  (2019). The Failure of Amanda鈥檚 Law in Kentucky:  Creating Best Practices for Legislatures Passing Domestic Violence Statutes. Quinnipiac Law Review Fall 2019.

Brinkley, J. (2019).  The Opioid Crisis and the Practice of Law:  An Examination of Efforts Made in Kentucky.  In South Carolina Law Review 70(3).

Brinkley, J. (2019).  Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU.  LMU Law Review 6(1).

Shorter Works
Brinkley, J. (2021) Our Rightful Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880-1945. Bench & Bar (forthcoming March 2021).

Brinkley, J. (2021) Covid-19, Disruption, and Teaching Practices, Legal Writing. Journal of Legal Writing Instruction (forthcoming Spring 2021).

Brinkley, J. (2020). RBG Played the Long Game on Making Real Change for Women鈥�and Men. Kentucky Herald-Leader (opinion).

Brinkley, J. (2020). Should We Do Away with Office Hours? InsideHigherEd.com (opinion).

Brinkley, J. (2020) Starting a Prison Reading Group, Jurist.org (commentary).

Brinkley, J. (2019) Richard H. Underwood鈥檚 Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York, 83 Bench & Bar 6 (book review). 

Brinkley, J. (2019) Abortion Access in Kentucky: 2019 Legislative Update, 83 Bench & Bar 22.

Brinkley, J. (2019). Teaching Legal History Through Women and the Law Curriculum. The Legal Educator 34(1).

Brinkley, J. (2010) Top 5 Mistakes that Young Lawyers Make. The Young Lawyer 15(2).

Brinkley, J. (2007). Does That Framed License Mean Anything? Creating Possibilities in the Young Lawyer鈥檚 Career. The Young Lawyer 11(7).

Christine M. Scartz is the director of the University of Georgia School of Law's Jane W. Wilson Family Justice Clinic. She also teaches Family Law and a course for undergraduates titled Law and Social Justice: Strategic Advocacy.
Scartz has been an active member of the Western Judicial Circuit Domestic Violence Task Force and Athens-Clarke County Fatality Review Panel since 2015. She previously served as an Executive Board member of the task force, and she currently chairs the Firearms Surrender Protocol Committee.
Scartz is a 2021-22 Georgia Women’s Policy Institute Fellow. She also served as a UGA Service-Learning Fellow in 2020-2021 and as a university Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow for Innovative Teaching during 2019-20. 
In 1994, after graduating from the School of Law, Scartz established the Protective Order Project for students in the law school’s Public Interest Practicum to provide free representation to low- and no-income victims of domestic violence and stalking in Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties. She received a National Association of Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellowship, which provided two years of support for her to continue developing the Protective Order Project. During that time, she also served as an adjunct instructor with the school's Public Interest Practicum and Civil Clinics.
Scartz joined the law school's faculty in August 2015. Previously, she was an associate attorney in a private firm in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where she handled a domestic relations and criminal law practice. She also served as an appointed attorney for criminal appeals in the Gwinnett County Superior Court.
She earned her bachelor's degree in history and French, with distinction, from the University of Virginia. She obtained her law degree magna cum laude from UGA, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and received the William K. Meadow Award, which recognizes outstanding public interest law students.

Dr. Finigan-Carr is a prevention research scientist focused on the application of behavioral and social science perspectives to research contemporary health problems, especially those that disproportionately affect people of color. Her scholarship is grounded in theories and methods found primarily in the field of health behavior change among individuals and the environments that support or impede chronic disease prevention or management, injury, and violence. She is an internationally recognized expert on human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors. 
She is the principal investigator of research projects at the state and federal levels designed to intervene with system-involved youth — those in foster care or the juvenile justice system. These youth have a double vulnerability — adolescence, a critical stage marked by increased risk for negative social and behavioral outcomes including aggression and sexual risk behaviors, and being removed from their families of origin.
Dr. Finigan-Carr is the author of “Linking Health and Education for African American Students’ Success” (Routledge Press). She has served as special guest editor for the Journal of Negro Education (2015), the Journal of Violence and Victims (2020), and Children Youth Services’ Review (2021). She also serves as a commissioner of community relations in the Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights.