Speakers Bureau

NARSOL is pleased to work with your organization in providing speakers for your internal education, outreach efforts, conferences, and special events.

Our speakers are experienced advocates for NARSOL's vision of creating a society free from public shaming, dehumanizing registries, discrimination, and unconstitutional laws. Each speaker brings a unique perspective and will add value to your event.

A contact form is linked to each speaker's profile. Interested organizations are encouraged to reach out through the form, and either a NARSOL Speakers Bureau representative or the speaker will respond to coordinate specifics.

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Danielle Bailey, Ph.D.: Full Bio, Speaking Topics, and Contact.

Dwayne Daughtry: Full Bio, Speaking Topics, and Contact.

David Garlock: Full Bio, Speaking Topics, and Contact.

Michael Harris: Full Bio, Speaking Topics, and Contact.

Michael Harris

Michael Harris is a filmmaker, advocate, and speaker whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling, public perception, and criminal justice reform. Combining lived experience with legislative advocacy and more than four decades in film and media, Harris has become a distinctive voice on how narrative shapes policy and how storytelling can create meaningful social change.

He serves as president of Indiana CURE, director of Indiana Voices, and coordinator of the therapist referral network for B4U-ACT. His advocacy work includes legislative analysis, testimony preparation, public education, and coalition-building surrounding registry policy, reentry barriers, constitutional rights, and the broader collateral consequences of criminal justice legislation.

As a filmmaker, Harris is the creator and producer of the feature film Life on the List, a dramatic exploration of the human realities surrounding registry laws and social exclusion, currently in development. Through both film and public speaking, he works to challenge fear-driven narratives and replace them with stories rooted in evidence, humanity, and lived experience.

Harris’s presentations are known for blending emotional authenticity, policy insight, and cinematic storytelling to initiate compelling discussions on justice, stigma, reintegration, and cultural change. His signature keynote, “Rewriting the Story: From Lived Experience to Policy Change,” explores how public narratives shape legislation and how advocates can reshape them to drive lasting reform.

Speaking Topics

Rewriting the Story: From Lived Experience to Policy Change: how public narratives shape laws—and how storytelling can reshape them;
When Fear Becomes Law: how fear-driven policymaking creates ineffective and harmful legislation;
Life on the List: The Human Reality Behind the Registry: a lived-experience perspective on stigma, exclusion, and reintegration;
Collateral Consequences and Invisible Punishments: the lifelong barriers created beyond a criminal sentence;
The Myth of Public Safety: examining evidence, effectiveness, and unintended consequences;
Exile in Plain Sight: housing, employment, and social barriers facing registrants;
The Constitution and Registry Expansion: due process, ex post facto concerns, and civil liberties implications;
How Registry Policies Affect Families and Communities: the overlooked impact on spouses, children, and support systems; and
Effective Therapy for MAPs (Minor - Attracted Person): Is therapy causing more harm than good.

SCHEDULE MICHAEL HARRIS

Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.: Full Bio, Speaking Topics, and Contact.

Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.

Dr. Horowitz is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY). At St. Francis, she founded and co-directs the Justice Initiative (a nationally recognized program that offers mentorship and scholarships to those directly impacted by the criminal-legal system during re-entry and those currently experiencing incarceration). Her scholarly research addresses the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, focusing on the harms of conviction registries and banishment laws.

Her latest book, From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), explores the human carnage wrought by decades of draconian and fear-based sex offense policies. She is also the author of Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us (Praeger, 2015), which was awarded a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association, and co-editor with Law Professor Larry Dubin, of Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities and Sex Offenses.

Professor Horowitz frequently engages in advocacy efforts and public scholarship to challenge myths and misinformation that lead to ineffective and draconian laws. Select recent news publications and media include "The Real Monsters" (a 2022 essay in Inquest: A Decarceral Brainstorm), a Reason article about the man wrongfully convicted of raping prominent author Alice Sebold (2021), a NY Daily News editorial about the Supreme Court hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (2022), and participation in an Intelligence Squared podcast (2023) debating the sex offense registry.

Speaking Topics

Impact of registries and related laws on those who have completed incarceration and supervision;
Impact of registries and related laws on family members of those listed; and
Failure of registries to reduce sexual recidivism or make communities safer.

SCHEDULE Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.