Gabrielle Davis, JD, is an attorney and former national legal policy advisor with the Battered Women’s Justice Project. She co-created the SAFeR model for DV-informed decision making in matters related to the family and juvenile court systems. Before joining BWJP, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Toledo College of Law where she founded and directed a domestic violence clinic and taught courses in gender violence and feminist legal theory. She chaired the local DV coordinated community response and fatality review teams, conducted community-based research, and helped shape local domestic violence policy and practice in the civil and criminal justice systems. Her community work has been recognized by numerous awards, including a 2009 Jefferson Award for Public Service and a 2018 Fulbright Specialist designation.
Lyn R. Greenberg, PhD, ABPP, has over 30 years’ experience working with court-involved children and families. She provides parenting plan coordination, specialized treatment, consultation, training, and expert witness services. She is the lead author and editor of Evidence-Informed Intervention for Court-Involved Families and has been recognized by both AFCC and the American Psychological association for her work. Lyn served on the AFCC Task Force on Court Involved Therapists and serves on the APA Working Group on High Conflict Families.
Mindy F. Mitnick, EdM, MA, is a Licensed Psychologist specializing in complex custody evaluations and cases with child abuse allegations. She provides training on the use of expert witnesses in child abuse and divorce cases, effective interviewing techniques with children, interventions in high-conflict divorce, and the impact of psychological trauma. She served on the AFCC task force that developed the 2019 Guidelines for Parenting Coordination, the AFCC Task Force on Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy and was co-chair of the Minnesota Child-Focused Parenting Time Guide Working Group. She is the immediate Past President of AFCC.
Matthew Sullivan, PhD, has been specializing in forensic and clinical work in the Family Courts for over 30 years. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics related to work in high conflict shared custody situations. He is a pioneer in the development of Parenting Coordination role internationally and trains family justice professionals about understanding and intervening in parent-child contact problems in high conflict shared parenting arrangements. He is a past-president of the AFCC. He served on the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee from 2016-2018. He is the co-founder of Overcoming Barriers, Inc., which is a non-profit organization that has developed a variety of innovative programs for high conflict shared custody arrangements.
Jeffrey Wittmann, PhD, is a trial consultant whose practice concentrates on trial support for attorneys in custody and access matters and on forensic peer reviews. He serves as a consultant for major law firms nationally and has taught forensic psychology at the doctoral level. Dr. Wittmann is a recognized expert on the intersection of law and psychology. His most recent book is entitled: Evaluating Evaluations: An Attorney's Handbook for Analyzing Child Custody Reports.
Nancy Ver Steegh, JD, is a professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law where she teaches courses on family law, domestic violence, and mediation. Her scholarship explores domestic violence in the context of child-related decision making and the implications for dispute resolution processes. She was a consultant to the Battered Women’s Justice Project on the development of the SAFeR system. She serves on the editorial board of the Family Court Review and is a former president of AFCC.