Amanda Kippert

Editorial Director, DomesticShelters.org

Amanda Kippert is an award-winning freelance journalist and the content editor of DomesticShelters.org. She is a trained domestic violence advocate and has volunteered with the emergency help line of her loc...

Allison Thomas

Allison Thomas is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience. Beyond contributing to DomesticShelters.org, she also writes for various publications and clients in the fi...

Barry Goldstein

DV Author, Speaker and Advocate

Barry Goldstein is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate. He is the author of five leading books about domestic violence and child custody including The Quincy Solution: Stop...

Brian F. Martin

Founder and CEO, Childhood Domestic Violence Association

Brian Martin is the Founder and CEO of the Childhood Domestic Violence Association and author of the New York Times Bestseller Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up With Domestic Violence and the Trut...

Charlotte Maya

Charlotte Maya was widowed in 2007 when her husband died by suicide, leaving Charlotte and their two young children. She writes from an insider’s perspective as the mother (and now step-mother) to four young...

Connie Sloane

Founder, The Soda Foundation

Connie Sloan is an author, philanthropist, consultant and revitalization coach, and the Founder of The Soda Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps survivors of domestic abuse rebuild their lives.

Donna Kaz

Donna Kaz is the author of UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour, which follows her surprising 25-year journey as a survivor of domestic violence at the hands of a Hollywood movie star and subsequen...

Erica Wilcox, LPC

Founder /Executive Director, Wilcox Wellness, LLC

Erica Wilcox is a licensed professional counselor and certified EMDR therapist who dedicates her work to holistically helping individuals and groups heal from stress and trauma. She is the founder and direct...

Evan Stark, PhD

Evan Stark Ph.D. is a leading authority on woman battering and child abuse and an associate professor of public administration, director of the master's in public health program at Rutgers-Newark and directo...

Hannah Kay Herdlinger

Founder, Thread Talk

Hannah Kay Herdlinger is a domestic violence survivor and the founder of Thread Talk, a company that spreads opportunity with comfort. Thread Talk sells blankets and other cozy keepsakes and donates a portio...

Heather Poole

Heather Poole is a flight attendant for a major U.S. carrier, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet.

Janice Fuller-Roberts

Survivor, and Volunteer Coordinator, CNS Hospice

Janice Fuller-Roberts is a freelance writer, novelist, and blogger living in the metropolitan Detroit area. She has a popular advice column called “Ask Janice” at SuzyKnew.com, a site dedicated to the sexual...

Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic is author of The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness and senior contributor writer for cosmopolitan.com. A frequent speaker and on-air commentator on gender, political and legal issues, ...

Katherine Fugate

Screenwriter, Director, Creator

Katherine Fugate is an activist, mom, survivor and the creator and executive producer of Army Wives, and the screenwriter of Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve.

Kit Gruelle

Survivor, Advocate, Community Educator

Kit Gruelle is a survivor of domestic violence who has worked as an advocate for battered women and their children for almost 30 years. She is a renowned community educator, lecturer and subject matter exper...

Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD

Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Expert

Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D. is a popular speaker, workshop facilitator and senior Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimat...

Lori Day

Educational Psychologist and Consultant, Lori Day Consultant

Lori Day is an educational psychologist, consultant and parenting coach with Lori Day Consulting in Newburyport, MA. She is the author of Her Next Chapter: How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navig...

Lynn Fairweather, MSW

Founder, Presage Consulting

Lynn Fairweather, MSW, is an abuse survivor who has worked in the domestic violence response and prevention field for over 23 years. As principal of Presage Consulting and Training, she provides professional...

Melissa Jeltsen

Senior Reporter, HuffPost

Melissa Jeltsen is a senior reporter at HuffPost, where she covers domestic violence and other issues related to women’s health, safety and security. 

Neda Yildirim

Neda Yildirim recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science from SUNY University at Buffalo. She currently works as a legal assistant at a law firm in New York City. Prior to her current p...

Rita Smith

Vice-President of External Relations, DomesticShelters.org

Rita Smith is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence who has been interviewed by hundreds of newspaper reporters, appeared on many local and national radio and television news shows, including t...

Rosemary Lombardy

Rosemary Lombardy is a financial advisor and portfolio manager with over 35 years of experience. Although her professional expertise is in financial matters, her perspective on marital abuse, divorce, and re...

Samra Zafar

Samra Zafar is an international speaker, human rights activist, scholar, author and social entrepreneur. She also serves as Governor for the University of Toronto and is the founder and president of the nonp...

Shelley Flannery

Advocate, Freelance Writer and Editor

Shelley Flannery is a trained domestic violence advocate long-time freelance writer and editor whose experience includes domestic violence reporting as well as law enforcement. She strives to make stories co...

Sherry Hamby, PhD

Sherry Hamby, Ph.D., is a research professor of psychology at Sewanee, the University of the South. You can visit her at her websites, Life Paths Research Center and The Vigor.

Stephanie Thurrott

Stephanie Thurrott is a journalist and trained domestic violence advocate who has contributed more than 50 articles and counting for DomesticShelters.org covering topics that range from the costs of escaping...

Suzannah Weiss

Freelance Writer

Suzannah Weiss is a writer whose work has also appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire and Seventeen, among others. She holds degrees in Gender & Sexuality Studi...

Wendy Patrick, PhD

Attorney

Wendy L. Patrick, PhD., is a career trial attorney, author of Red Flags: Frenemies, Underminers, and Ruthless People, and co-author of Reading People.