Daniel Albanese, Center for Justice & Democracy - New York, NY Daniel is the Administrative Director of the Center for Justice & Democracy, where he coordinates the membership program and is editor of CJ&D's publications. He received a BA in Anthropology focused on gender and religion in 2001 from SUNY New Paltz. Daniel co-organized New Paltz's Take Back the Night rallies from 1998 to 2002, and has helped organize the Take Back the News Annual Art Benefits. Kim Flournoy, Safe Harbor - Richmond, VA Kim Flournoy is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University’s social work program. Working as Safe Harbor's Director of Children's Services, she developed one of Virginia’s most comprehensive programs for children who have experienced domestic violence. Her main areas of interest and research are sexual and domestic violence with an emphasis on attachement disorders and crisis and play therapy interventions. She recently won the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance's Blue Ribbon award for excellance in children's advocacy. She is a frequent presenter at various conferences and is the Chair of Virginia's Child Advocacy Task Force. Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College - Rochester, NY Elizabeth Johnston, a feminist scholar, teaches English composition and literature at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.  She received a PhD in eighteenth-century British literature from West Virginia University, but has published on topics as diverse as fashion in the Middle East, female rivalry on reality television, and the nineteenth-century critical reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  She is currently working on two writing projects, the first an analysis of female rivalry and miscegenation in Belinda, an eighteenth-century domestic novel, and the second an examination of the ideology of breastfeeding in contemporary culture.  She is especially interested in how print and visual cultures perpetuate misogynist ideologies.  After teaching Women in Literature at MCC for three years, she is looking forward to working with others at the college to create a women’s studies core of courses and is excited about helping to host a women’s studies film festival for the first time at MCC in the Fall of 2006.  Starting in September, 2006, she will also be the faculty advisor for a student-led women’s group on campus.  Finally, she is also working with Maria Brandt to organize the Take Back the News College Writing Project pilot at MCC, scheduled for Apr007. Joy Jones, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer (Tulane University) - New Orleans, LA Joy Jones is a PhD candidate in International Development at Tulane University. She received a MS in International Development at Tulane University and a BA in Women’s Studies and Public Policy at Mount Vernon College. Her research interests include issues related to capacity building and allocation of human resources for development, post-conflict development, justice and reconciliation, and sustainable human development focused on women, children and other vulnerable populations. She is currently working as a consultant in Rwanda providing technical assistance to Treatment and Research AIDS Center (TRAC), the government agency responsible for national HIV/AIDS surveillance, national planning, policy development, training of trainers and curriculum development for clinical programs. Anastasia Ruiz-Webb, St Luke’s-Roosevelt Crime Victims Treatment Center - New York, NY Anastasia Ruiz-Webb is a former actor; she got her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from DePaul University in Chicago. Film and theater accomplishments include: “The Straight Story,” a David Lynch film; and the off-Broadway world premiere of “Bad Girls,” an adaptation from a Joyce Carol Oates short story. She is a two-time rape survivor and survivor of child sexual abuse and works with the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault on projects including: NOT IN OUR CITY, an education and outreach campaign; and SAYSO!, an annual event organized to break the cultural silence surrounding rape and sexual abuse. Anastasia has been volunteering as an emergency room rape crisis advocate, providing emotional support and information for victims of rape and domestic violence for St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Crime Victims Treatment Center since 2005. Finally, she is a student at Hunter College working towards a graduate degree in Social Work. Christine St. John, NOT IN OUR CITY - New York, NY Christine St. John is the Organizer for NOT IN OUR CITY, a community organizing project of the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault to prevent sexual violence through critical dialogue, advocacy and activism. Prior to her work in NYC, Christine worked as a rape crisis counselor at Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) in New Hampshire and later as a Law Enforcement Advocate in Rhode Island where she provided crisis intervention and advocacy to survivors of domestic and sexual violence at the hospital emergency room, police station, Child Advocacy Center and throughout court proceedings. At SASS, she addressed the lack of services statewide to victims of sexual and domestic violence who are Deaf by developing and implementing a training curriculum that addressed the cultural and technological needs of the Deaf and hard of hearing population. She also organized a public campaign called “Seacoast Men Against Sexual Violence” that involved 300 men signing a petition stating their support in eradicating sexual violence in addition to organizing her college’s V-Day campaign. Christine graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2003 with a Bachelor’s of Art in Sociology.