Speakers Bureau

Danielle Bailey, Ph.D.

Danielle Bailey, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at Tyler. She earned a Ph.D. in Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2015. Dr. Bailey’s primary research focus is the impact of sex offender policy on individuals convicted of sexual offenses and their family members. Her research highlights how sex offender policies in the United States have diverse unintended consequences including economic and marital strain, social support loss, and reintegration concerns. Dr. Bailey has testified in front of the Texas House Committee on Urban Affairs (HB 387, 2017) and the Nebraska Judiciary Committee (LB 290, 2015) based on her research in this area. Dr. Bailey’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Criminal Justice Policy Review, Criminal Justice Studies, American Journal of Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice Review.

Speaking Topics

Collateral consequences of sex offender legislation for individuals convicted of sexual offenses and their family members
Impact of registration and other post-conviction policies on social support, marital relationships, and family strain
Economic consequences of registration for individuals convicted of sexual offenses

SCHEDULE DANIELLE BAILEY

Dwayne Daughtry

Dwayne is a retired enlisted soldier with the U.S. Army. His primary duties were as a human resources specialist and leader. He is a graduate of Arizona State University in organizational leadership with a minor in non-profit studies. He has a Masters of Science in public administration form the University of South Dakota. Dwayne is actively involved in legislative concerns around sex offense policy and human rights policies. He engages with the community to educate about sex offense collateral consequences and cause and effects harms by registries in general. Dwayne focuses on a breadth of outreach and partner programs such as the NAACP, N.C. Justice Centers, LGBT communities, homeless shelters, social services, and veterans' issues. Dwayne is currently engaged with the legal counsel for the upcoming litigation of NARSOL v. Stein by preparing an expert witness affidavit.

Speaking Topics

LGBT civil rights versus sex offense civil rights and its similarities
"Third rail politics"" tactics (how to advocate controversial topics to elected officials)
What is Public Policy and insight as to how analysts are often ignored or overlooked

SCHEDULE DWAYNE DAUGHTRY

David Garlock

Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse who took the life of the abuser and spent 13 ½ yrs. in prison. Now advocates for those on the Registry. Believes in Redemption and Restoration.

Speaking Topics

Sharing my story
Reentry for those on the registry
Tools for obtaining employment on the registry
Changing the narrative

SCHEDULE DAVID GARLOCK

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
Failure of registries to reduce sexual recidivism or make communities safer

SCHEDULE Emily Horowitz, Ph.D.

Tamara Jackson

Tamara has over 25 years working directly with challenging populations within the criminal justice, social service, and mental health arena as a multi-county coordinator on re-entry issues and liaison to the courts regarding judicial release.

Speaking Topics

Law Enforcement & People Convicted of a Sex Offense
Family Issues Involving Registrants
Community Re-entry
Inmate Populations
NARSOL Education
Community Supervision & People Convicted of a Sex Offense

SCHEDULE TAMARA JACKSON

Brenda Jones

Brenda has been involved in this cause since September of 2009. She started by looking for support but quickly saw the magnitude of the pain and despair faced by others affected by these draconian laws. When a high-profile murder in Maryland sent lawmakers scurrying to pass tons of tough-on-sex-offenders laws, Brenda dove in headfirst and, as she says, “I have never looked back.” Brenda has been executive director of state affiliate FAIR (Families Advocating Intelligent Registries) since its inception in 2010 and in 2012 became the first executive director of then-RSOL. Under her administration, NARSOL has seen many changes: increased transparency, launch of a membership program, and a more robust state affiliate initiative.

Speaking Topics

NARSOL history, vision, mission, and goals
NARSOL views on any current topic of interest
Vivante Espero purpose, goals, and relationship to NARSOL
NARSOL Fearless Support groups

SCHEDULE BRENDA JONES

Philip W. Kaso

Philip W. Kaso is a retired US Navy Chief Petty Officer and registered citizen living in West Virginia. He has an impactful story and believes “stories are the art of our lives.” Philip has been actively involved in civil rights and sexual offense law reform for the past decade. He’s a lifetime member of the national civil rights organization National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) and 2016 NARSOL Pearl award recipient. Additionally, Philip is a co-creator/mentor for the NARSOL Fearless Project, which is dedicated to creating dynamic, self-sustaining registered citizen specific support groups around the country. Philip currently serves as a director on the boards of NARSOL and its foundation Vivante Espero and is chair of the Vivante Espero Investment Committee. He holds an Associate of Science in finance from Hawaii Pacific University, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, and is an MBA candidate at Liberty University. In addition to his national civil rights efforts on behalf of NARSOL and its foundation Vivante Espero, Philip is the Executive Director of West Virginians for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (WVRSOL). WVRSOL was established in 2020 as an unincorporated non-profit association and affiliate of the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL). WVRSOL advocates for registered citizens in West Virginia with the mission to make the 2020s the decade known for criminal justice reform, rational sexual offense laws, and restorative justice.

Speaking Topics

NARSOL/Vivante Espero, its vision, mission, and goals, etc.
My personal story: Life in the registry and overcoming
My personal story: "I'm a child rapist" published on NARSOL.org

SCHEDULE PHILIP W. KASO

Jennifer L. Klein, Ph.D.

Dr. Jennifer L. Klein is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at Tyler. She graduated with her doctoral degree from the University of Florida in 2014, where she also completed her Masters' (2011) and Bachelor of Arts (2009) degrees, all in Criminology, Law & Society. For more than a decade, Dr. Klein has focused her research on examining the effects of sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) laws on those required to register. Most recently, Dr. Klein and colleagues have been examining the economic impact of registration over time. This work is important to understanding the financial constraints placed on those required to register and their family members. Dr. Klein's work can be found in a variety of different journals including the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Review,  Justice Policy Journal, and more.

Speaking Topics

SORN legislation and its impacts
Economic impacts of registration
Social isolation of registrants and family members
Legislative change

SCHEDULE JENNIFER KLEIN

Chrysanthi S. Leon, J.D., Ph.D.

Chrysanthi Leon, JD, PhD, is Deputy Dean of the Honors College at the University of Delaware and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice with secondary appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Legal Studies. She received her graduate degrees from UC Berkeley. Leon is an interdisciplinary scholar in the area of penology, law and society who teaches courses on law and social science, sex crime and punishment, and criminal justice and mental health. Her book, Sex Fiends, Perverts and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America, is available from NYU Press. Leon is co-editor, with Katie Hail-Jares and Corey Shdaimah, of Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work (Temple University Press).
Dr. Leon has consulted on sex crime issues for a number of agencies, including the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Center of Louisiana and speaks regionally and nationally on sex offender issues, including media commentary in venues such as NPR’s NYC affiliate,Takeaway and Al Jazeera, America.

Speaking Topics

Impact of the registry
Sex offense recidivism
Religious communities and re-entering persons
History of US sex offense policy

SCHEDULE CHRYSANTHI S. LEON

Jill Levenson, Ph.D., LCSW

Dr. Jill Levenson is a Professor of Social Work at Barry University in Miami, FL. She is the Coordinator for the Trauma-informed Training Initiative at Barry’s Center for Human Rights & Social Justice. She has published 5 books and over 100 articles, with a focus on treatments and policies related to sex-offending, and trauma-informed care in forensic and clinical settings. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Justice, CDC, and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Dr. Levenson is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida, USA, and counsels survivors, perpetrators, and families impacted by sexual assault and interpersonal violence. She has provided training in more than 20 US states, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand.

Speaking Topics

Registry & re-entry
Public health & prevention of sexual abuse
Trauma-informed care
Housing restrictions
Family members of registrants
Treatment for people who have sexually offended
Restorative Justice
Trauma & criminality
Post-conviction traumatic stress

SCHEDULE JILL LEVENSON

Mary Sue Molnar

Mary Sue Molnar is the founder and executive director of Texas Voices for Reason and Justice; a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, grassroots organization. Mary Sue has been active in advocacy for the past 12 years, speaking out against the counter-productive and stigmatizing laws and policies that affect people who have committed sex crimes and their family members.

Speaking Topics

Harm to families
Meeting with legislators
General registration info

SCHEDULE MARY SUE MOLNAR

Alexa Sardina, Ph.D.

Alexa Sardina, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at California State University, Sacramento, in the Division of Criminal Justice. Her scholarship focuses on how restorative processes can be used to address sexual harm. Dr. Sardina co-founded Ampersands Restorative Justice and co-hosts the popular podcast Beyond Fear: The Sex Crimes Podcast.

Speaking Topics

Restorative justice and sexual harm

SCHEDULE ALEXA SARDINA, PH.D.

Robin Vander Wall

Robin spent more than six years in the Virginia penitentiary after being convicted of computer solicitation (law enforcement sting operation). Prior to his conviction, he was active as a professional political consultant on a number of state and federal campaigns. At the time of his arrest in 2003, Robin was a third-year law student at Regent University School of Law (Virginia Beach) and was scheduled to receive joint degrees in Law and Political Management the following spring. He holds a bachelors of arts in political science from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. From 1993 to 1997, he was publisher of the Citizen, a weekly tabloid of politics and culture. Robin was a 2018 Leading with Conviction fellow in the 2018 cohort of JustLeadershipUSA, one of the nation’s most distinguished prison reform initiatives. Robin is the founder and president of Vivante Espero which exists to support the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) on whose board Robin has served for a decade.

Speaking Topics

Civil rights
Criminal justice reform
Re-entry
Sex offender registration laws
Voting rights amendment
Privacy rights amendment
Organizational development
Earned media outreach
Direct mail marketing
Fundraising
Donor acquisition
Donor cultivation
Volunteer management
Print publications
Legislative process
1983 litigation

SCHEDULE ROBIN VANDER WALL

Steven Yoder

Steven Yoder is a journalist who has covered a range of domestic policy issues for national magazines and news sites, including the Washington Post, pbs.org, Salon, Reason, The American Prospect, and elsewhere. While his focus is domestic policy, he specializes in criminal justice, especially the impacts of sex-offense registries and related laws. (He is not affiliated with NARSOL, and all opinions are his own and don’t represent those of other people, institutions, or organizations, including NARSOL.)

Speaking Topics

General registry law
Residency restrictions
Collateral effects of registries and related laws
Media coverage of those with a sexual-offense record
Strategies for rolling back (at least partially) residency restrictions
Media advocacy

SCHEDULE STEVEN YODER