Sheryl Cates is executive director of the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. TCFV is the statewide membership coalition of community–based family violence programs and other supportive organizations and individuals dedicated to ending violence against women. It also is one of the largest domestic violence coalitions in the country and has a national presence as the home of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

She currently serves on the advisory board for the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, advises the Texas Governor’s Commission for Women, and serves in a leadership capacity on the Council for Crime Victims for the Texas Office of the Attorney General. Ms. Cates is recognized as a national leader in the effort to end domestic violence. She has been prominently featured as an expert witness on ABC's Prime Time, The John Walsh Show and The Queen Latifah Show.

Felicia Collins Correia is the executive director of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS), a nonprofit agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that provides comprehensive intervention and prevention services to men, women and children affected by domestic violence. The DVIS mission is to impact social change and stop violence in families and societies through prevention, intervention, and education. DVIS’s 60-bed shelter houses almost 1,000 women and children each year. Because of the breadth of its services, DVIS has become a national model for violence prevention and intervention.

Ms. Collins Correia currently serves on the board of advisors for the Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project of the Wellesley Centers for Women and the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund’s Board of Directors.

Nina Eidell serves as vice president, human resources, for Allstate Protection, the property and casualty businesses of The Allstate Corporation -- a position she has held since she joined the company in September 2003. Prior to joining Allstate, Ms. Eidell was senior vice president and senior human resource officer, Life and Group Operations for CNA Insurance. CNA is a leading insurance organization offering a broad range of insurance products and insurance’related services in the property and casualty, life, group and reinsurance markets. Prior to joining CNA, Ms. Eidell was executive vice president and chief human resource officer for Heller Financial, a leading worldwide provider of specialized financing solutions designed to meet the needs of middle market companies. As the company's chief human resource officer, Ms. Eidell served on the strategy committee and established priorities for the company’s human resource function. During her tenure, Heller’s human resource team was instumental in establishing Heller as an “Employer of Choice” and one of Chicago Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” issue (October 2000).

Ms. Eidell earned her B.A. from Brown University and a MBA from the University of Illinois. She is a director of the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago.

Mary Keefe is the executive director of the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV), serving in this position since October 1996. Previously, she served as its vice president and co–chaired its legislative committee. Ms. Keefe first entered the field of domestic violence as a volunteer and house manager for the Eastern Upper Peninsula Domestic Violence Program. She later volunteered with Relief After Violent Encounter, a comprehensive domestic and sexual violence social change organization and was named the program’s executive director.

Ms. Keefe serves on the board of directors of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the Michigan Homeless Advisory Board of the Michigan State Housing Development Agency, the legislative policy committee of the Michigan chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and the Leaven Center, a non–profit organization committed to nurturing the relationship between spirituality and social justice. She holds a master’s degree in social work, with a concentration in administration and program evaluation, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Ms. Keefe also serves a field instructor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.

Bill Kenner, of Blytheville, Ark., has been an exclusive agent with Allstate since 1973. During his tenure, he has earned Allstate Honor Ring 24 times, National Conference 16 times, Life Leader 10 times, Chairman’s Circle twice, and the Inner Circle Award. In 2005, he was honored as a nominee for the Ray Lynch Southern Region 2005 Award, an award honoring Allstate agent volunteerism.

He is presently an active a board member of the Northeast Arkansas College Foundation, spearheading a fundraiser that has raised approximately $20,000 a year for the past 18 years. He is the founding director of the Blytheville Blood Bank, a member of the Blytheville Community Samaritan Ministry Lions Club, where he was named Citizen of the Year in 1989 and Man of the Year in 1986 and 1998. He is an honorary member of the local Epsilon Sigma Alpha International (ESA) sorority. Kenner has served as emcee for the annual ESA/St. Jude Radio Cablethon, helping raising more than $1.5 million. Mr. Kenner has also served as a liaison for St. Jude and Nucor/Yamato Steel Mill golf tournament, which raised more than $500,000 for the Children's Hospital.

Mr. Kenner is also actively involved in raising funds for The Haven, a shelter for battered women and their children in his community. He was instrumental in creating a program for the children of abused women of The Haven, which received a $23,000 grant from The Allstate Foundation.

Cheryl Kravitz is executive director of The Washington Region for Justice and Inclusion, which is committed to upholding the values of equality, understanding and respect for all people. WRJI fights oppression, prejudice and discrimination through training, collaboration and mediation programs in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia. As its executive director, she oversees prejudice reduction programs for media, individuals, schools, police departments, businesses, labor unions and associations in metropolitan Washington. She also manages external relations, fundraising, volunteer development and strategic planning.

She is past program chair of Leadership Washington and on the board of a number of women’s support groups that fight domestic violence. She served on the National Education Association’s Commission on Urban Children, WUSA–TV’s community board and as vice chair of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Human Relations Committee. She was an elected member of the Board of Education in Tulsa and taught journalism in Tulsa and Chicago. She is co–chair of the Montgomery County Public Schools Special Needs subcommittee.

A survivor of domestic violence, Ms. Kravitz speaks and writes about her experience to help women who are currently being victimized and to empower those who know them to assist through nonjudgmental support.

Leslie Landis serves as the City of Chicago’s domestic violence project manager. She is an advisor on the service needs of domestic violence victims in the city and advocates with state, federal and local funding sources to implement and coordinate services. She also serves as the chairperson of the Mayor’s Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and director of the Mayor’s Office on Domestic Violence, which is developing a uniform, citywide intervention and referral strategy.

Ms. Landis is a recognized women’s advocate and leader in national, state and local advocacy and reform efforts to benefit victims of domestic violence. She was instrumental in establishing the first domestic violence criminal court in Chicago and the criminal court calls in the North and Northwest suburbs of Cook County. She is also a founding member of the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.

Ms. Landis collaborated on the 1986 and 1993 revisions to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act. She also collaborated to develop the Illinois anti–stalking statute. She has extensive experience as a trainer and an educator and writer. She frequently presents at law enforcement seminars; trainings for judges, lawyers and court personnel; and to staff of hospitals and medical centers.

Hedda Litwin serves as Cyber Crime and Violence Against Women Counsel for the National Association of Attorneys General, and leads the association’s project on violence against women. The project’s principal objectives are to develop strategies to address violence against women that can be implemented in the offices of attorneys general. The project is funded by a technical assistance grant awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.

In 2004, the project planned and presented a national conference on emerging issues in violence against women. The conference brought together prosecutors and victims services advocates from attorneys general offices across the country to attend workshops and discussions on trafficking in women and children, the use of technology in intimate partner stalking, evidence issues in sexual assault cases, and the policy of “no drop” prosecution in domestic violence cases.

The project also provides technical assistance to attorneys general on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. It has produced several reports on legislative and criminal procedure issues, including narratives on teen dating violence, discrimination against domestic violence victims, criminal discovery statutes, and domestic violence statistics reporting. The project also advises attorneys general offices of funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Amy Osler is executive director of the Chicago Network, an organization of more than 300 high–profile and influential professional women from the Chicago metropolitan area who have reached the highest echelons of business, the arts, government, the professions and academia. The Network’s mission is to create a forum for friendship, advance and celebrate members’successes, provide career support and counsel and to raise awareness of professional and social issues facing women today. The Network does not actively support any issues, or take sides on political candidates although it does count several political leaders among its members.

In addition to her work with the Network, Ms. Osler is a member of the employment and pay equity working group for the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women. She also serves on the board of directors for Access Living, an organization for service, advocacy and social change for people with disabilities.

Rey Ramsey is an internationally respected social entrepreneur and co-author, with Ben Hecht, of ManagingNonprofits.org: Dynamic Management for the Digital Age. Prior to founding One Economy in 2000, Mr. Ramsey served as president and chief operating officer of The Enterprise Foundation. He has also served in the cabinets of two governors of Oregon as the state’s director of Housing and Community Services. Mr. Ramsey is currently the chairman of the board of Habitat for Humanity International. He also serves on the boards of Schnitzer Investment Corporation, the advisory board of the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Local Initiatives Support Corporation and Kaboom! He has a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.

Lynn Rosenthal is former president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, as well as the former director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund. In her tenure with the agency, she doubled the active membership of the organization, initiated a strong partnership with the Women of Color Network, provided oversight for the development of the Safe and Strategic Technology Project, and lobbied successfully for increases in federal funding for domestic violence services.

Ms. Rosenthal played an active role in reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2000 and 2005 and was recently honored by Lifetime Television as a part of its Times Square Project. She serves on the National Teen Action Campaign Advisory Committee, the Cut it Out National Advisory Committee and chairs the funding and appropriations committees of the National Task Force on Violence Against Women in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as a consultant within the domestic violence community.

As senior vice president for Public Affairs at the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I), Jeanne Salvatore plays a highly public role in representing the Institute and the insurance industry.

Ms. Salvatore works closely with national and local media, appearing often on radio, TV and in print as a spokesperson for insurance-related issues that directly affect the consumer, both individual and commercial. She also serves as the industry liaison to numerous consumer, education, safety and community-based organizations, including the Consumer Federation of America, the National Consumers League and Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.

Ms. Salvatore has fulfilled a variety of roles since joining I.I.I. in 1988. Among her earlier achievements, she became an expert on the issue of insurance fraud and was instrumental in the development of a national agenda to combat it, and co-authored Fighting the Hidden Crime: A National Agenda to Combat Insurance Fraud. She also has served as I.I.I.’s director of crisis communications, and produced a series of state-specific auto-safety conferences that culminated in a national conference. She also directed communications programs on insurance topics such as claim filing, disaster preparedness and home safety.

Lupe Serrano is the executive director of Casa de Esperanza, a non–profit organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose mission is to mobilize Latinas and Latino communities to end domestic violence. Serrano has worked at varied levels within non–profits and the Latino community for more than 25 years. Her past roles include: co–founder of Hispanic Ministries, Casa de Esperanza, and HACER; senior management, CLUES; executive director, NEDA; associate director, Resources for Child Caring; director, Hispanic Women’s Development Corporation; consultant, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation; interim executive director, Casa de Esperanza.

Ms. Serrano is well known and respected throughout the non–profit, funding and Latino communities.

Cris Sullivan, Ph. D., is associate professor of ecological psychology at Michigan State University, director of the Center for Social Action Research on Violence Against Women at MSU, and director of evaluation for the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. An advocate and researcher in the movement to end violence against women since 1982, Dr. Sullivan has received research grants from the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Mental Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the long-term effects of community–based interventions for battered women and their children.

Dr. Sullivan has served as a consultant for numerous local, state and federal organizations and initiatives, including the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office, the Institute for Law and Justice, the Urban Institute, the National Research Council, and the Battered Women’s Justice Project.

Patty VanLammeren serves as field vice president for Allstate Insurance Company’s Capital Region. The region, which includes Washington, D.C., and the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, includes 700 agents and financial specialists along with 200 employees who serve 1.8 million customers. The region generates approximately $1.2 billion in premium annually.

Ms. VanLammeren serves as a trustee for the Neighborhood Housing Service of Baltimore, Md., and is also a director on the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, D.C. She holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Illinois–Chicago.

Kim Wells is the executive director of the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence. The alliance focuses on the workplace in its fight against domestic violence. Wells is a nationally recognized expert and frequent speaker and guest lecturer in the United States and internationally on topics such as partner violence and the workplace, workplace violence, organizational ethics and leadership.

Ms. Wells serves on the Workplace Committee of the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women and is a member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois Violence Reduction Working Group. She also chairs the promotion committee for the State of Illinois as it develops and distributes a statewide model policy for partner violence and sexual assault and the workplace.

Loretta Worters is vice president of Communications for the Insurance Information Institute. As a national spokesperson for the property and casualty insurance industry, she is frequently quoted in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and U.S. News & World Report, and appears regularly on television networks including ABC, CNBC, CNN and Fox.

Ms. Worters focuses on major strategic issues confronting the insurance industry from the industry’s response to 9/11 and the availability of terrorism coverage to the cost of asbestos litigation and mold claims and market conditions.

She serves as the industry’s chief crisis communications officer, developing and implementing disaster communications plans and working with national media during such catastrophes as Hurricane Katrina, the California Wildfires, 9/11, the Los Angeles riots, Hurricane Andrew, the Northridge Earthquake and the aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Ms. Worters headed up the Community Outreach Program directed by former Vice President Al Gore. She developed and distributed a survey to insurance companies nationwide on community outreach activities of the industry and analyzed the survey results to be used by Vice President Gore in a model program to encourage other industries to be good corporate citizens. As a result, Ms. Worters wrote the industry publication Empowering Communities. In addition, Ms. Worters prepared testimony to be presented before the Black Congressional Caucus on the insurance industry's response to church fires.