Paul Steier is the Law Enforcement Program Manager with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). Paul coordinates training and educational programs to inspire collaboration between motor vehicle and law enforcement agencies through-out the U.S. and Canada. Paul joined AAMVA in 2017 and previously served 25-years as a commissioned officer with the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) where he was the Director of the Bureau of Investigation & Identity Protection. He managed a staff who investigated motor vehicle and personal identity crimes along with operating the DOT's facial recognition program. Prior to his service as Bureau Director, Paul held the rank of Major working for the DOT's Motor Vehicle Enforcement Office where he also served as a Fraud Investigator and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer. Paul is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police serving on the Vehicle Crimes Committee and is Chair of the Emerging Technologies with Vehicle Crimes Working Group. Paul is a member of the National Sheriff's Association serving on the Traffic Safety Committee.  He also is a member of the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators, International Association of Auto Theft Investigators, and the Iowa Peace Officers Association. Paul has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Paul is a graduate of the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy and served on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.    

Kipp Loving retired after 31 years of law enforcement for three California agencies.

He also worked as a Criminal Investigator for the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office. He has held many assignments, including Detectives, Auto Theft, SWAT, Impact Weapons Instructor and the Training Manager position for the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force.

For the last twelve years of his career, Detective Loving was deputized as a U.S. Marshal and assigned to the FBI Cyber Crime ICAC Task Force & Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, assisting agents with crimes related to the abuse of children.  He has worked and assisted in a number of high profile cases involving technology. Among the most notable was the murder of California Highway Patrol Officer Earl H. Scott and the murder of Lacy Peterson and her unborn son, Conner. 

  Detective Loving regularly instructs for local, state and federal law enforcement on the topics of Mobile Device Evidence, Connected Car Tracking, Surveillance Equipment, Digital License Plates, Court Presentation of Hi-Tech Evidence, Onsite Search Tools and ID Theft.  Detective Loving maintains a Hi-Tech Crime Training website (kloving.net) used by law enforcement around the world

Sgt Steven Sunderland is a 28 year veteran of the Baltimore County Police. During that time, he has been assigned to Patrol, Criminal Investigations/Economic Crimes, Narcotics, and the Baltimore Regional Auto Theft Taskforce, where he has overseen the Investigative Squad for 14 years. His daily duties involve managing a multi-jurisdictional task force responsible for investigating organized professional auto theft, such as re-plated stolen vehicles, international export, cargo theft, title fraud and identity theft, in the Baltimore area. 

 Mr. Hurst guides efforts supporting DEA’s National License Plate Reader Program and other tactical operations objectives lead from EPIC. Mr. Hurst began his career as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) having graduated from DEA Academy Basic Agent Class #148 in 2002. Mr. Hurst’s initial assignment was to the McAllen District Office in McAllen, Texas where he served approximately seven years at the Texas/Mexico border, was a successful and recognized field agent and gained invaluable insight and experience through his investigations of primarilyMexico based DTOs. In 2009, Mr. Hurst was selected as Special Agent of the Year for the South Texas Chapter ofthe Association of Federal Narcotics Agents (AFNA).

In 2010, Mr. Hurst was assigned to the Monterrey Resident Office in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. Mr. Hurst investigated two major drug trafficking organizations and experienced firsthand the spiral of drug trafficking related violence that engulfed northeastern México. In 2012, Mr. Hurst was promoted to DEA’s supervisory ranks and reassigned as the Resident Agent in Charge of the Nogales Resident Office in Nogales, Sonora, México, where he led and coordinated DEA supported counterdrug efforts in the Arizona/Sonora border region, while serving as the highest-ranking federal law enforcement official in the region and as the subject matter expert in drug law enforcement to the U.S. Consul General.

In 2016, Mr. Hurst was reassigned to the Houston Division Office as a Group Supervisor and remained there until early July 2018; after which, he reported to the Asunción Country Office as the Country Attaché. Mr. Hurst lead the Asunción Country Office and the Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) Paraguay carrying out investigations that lead to back to back record cocaine seizures within Paraguay as well as developing/coordinating a host-nation response to the threat of illicit air bridge trafficking activities of bulk cocaine from Bolivia into and through Paraguay to other countries. In 2021, Mr. Hurst was selected to fulfill his mandatory headquarters tour at the El Paso Intelligence Center and assigned to the National License Plate Reader Program. A native Tennessean, Mr. Hurst has a Master of Business Administration in International Business from the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis and an undergraduate honors degree in Business Administration from Montreat College. Mr. Hurst is 48 years old, married, and has one son.

Cameron started her law enforcement career in the summer of 2009. Prior to Law Enforcement, Cameron worked in pre-hospital emergency care as a paramedic since 2001. Cameron obtained her associate degree in science in 2011 from Southern Union State Community College. Cameron was promoted to patrol sergeant at Lanett Police Department in 2012 and then moved on to Tallapoosa County Sheriff Office in 2014 where she was promoted to the position of criminal investigator in 2016. Cameron continued to work hand in hand with community members, and non-government organizations; providing community-based training on awareness of human trafficking to include continuing education classes for hospital nurse staff. Cameron worked in close partnership with the Alabama Fusion Center and State Bureau Investigators, investigating several incidents of human trafficking. She represented Tallapoosa County Sheriff Office as the MDT -Team member at the Tri-County Child Advocacy Center, and on the Human Trafficking Task Force of the Middle District of Alabama. Cameron was recruited in November 2020 to join the Homeland Security Investigations as a Task Force Officer in the fight against human trafficking. Cameron continued to work closely with those whose common aim was to do something that would affect the local and state community and cause a positive change, empowering them with tools, resources, and mentorship to attain the suitable practices in investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases of all forms.

Jennie Tice currently serves as the Family Sunshine Center (FSC)’s Human Trafficking Outreach Coordinator. In that role, she coordinates victim and survivor services for the Alabama Anti-Human Trafficking Alliance ("Alliance"), a federally funded, multi-disciplinary, collaborative task force. At FSC, Jennie served as the Human Trafficking Case Manager when their emergency shelter opened and developed the economic empowerment program in the domestic violence shelter prior to that.

Jennie first began her advocacy career in 2003 after graduating from Auburn University with a B.A. in Psychology.  After working for non-profit domestic violence agencies and focusing on legal advocacy, she accepted a position as a Victim Witness Advocate in the Atlanta District Attorney's Office.  There she served as a system-based advocate working with felony crime victims and witnesses in a variety of cases such as death penalty, serial rape, cold cases, child abuse, human trafficking, and gang. This enabled her to advocate for thousands of survivors from a diverse set of backgrounds, circumstances, victimizations, and traumas using a survivor-centered, trauma-informed lens.  It opened her up to different perspectives of the professionals working within the criminal justice system and those she served.

Erin Knowles Wirsing, MSW, provides technical assistance to federally funded human trafficking task forces through Project Roadmap at ICF. Since 2006, Erin has managed programs providing direct services to persons experiencing trafficking in Chicago and Central Florida. She was a core team member in the initiation of a pilot multi-disciplinary task force in Chicago, working to ensure persons experiencing trafficking were provided options for exit. Erin is skilled in trauma-informed care and person-centered approaches to services. She is an expert in networking, building collaboration and program development. Erin has a long history of providing training, support and consultation for professionals, families, and community groups.

Liz Williamson is a Training Specialist for Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) and a survivor of human trafficking. Located in Northern California, Williamson shares her trafficking story at casino/bus Coalition Builds and other TAT events and is responsible for some administrative duties.

A survivor advocate, she has done direct service work with survivors at the local, regional, and national levels. For the past decade, she has trained and spoken nationally to audiences regarding her survival of familial trafficking to help dispel the myths surrounding this topic and to empower individuals to help make a difference.

Williamson has also trained medical professionals with Dignity Health to identify victims seeking medical services, with special attention given to what the medical community missed or was unable to assist her with during her trafficking experience. She is a member of the Survivor Leadership Institute through GEMS. She is a member of the NJ Coalition to End Human Trafficking and recently invited to the NJ Chapter of American Pediatrics Task Force on Human Trafficking.

With a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a flair for all things creative, Ms. Williamson enjoys communicating and creating. She passionately believes survivors deserve the opportunity to use their experiences to rewrite their stories and their futures.

Maggie Dawson is a Public Sector Engagement Specialist with Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT). TAT is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to educate, equip, empower, and mobilize members of the trucking, bus, and energy industries to combat human trafficking. Before working with TAT, Ms. Dawson worked for a child advocacy organization that periodically served youth victims of human trafficking. She also worked in a juvenile treatment center that served males ages 13 to 19 who had committed felonies. Ms. Dawson received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Denver in 2011. She received her master’s degree from Salve Regina University in 2014 where she wrote her thesis on the importance of cross-sector collaboration in combating child sexual exploitation. She lives with her husband and daughter in the Denver, Colorado Metro Area

Ms. Anderson is a certified Criminal Specialist and Senior Deputy District Attorney at the Fresno County (CA) District Attorney’s Office. As a specialty unit prosecutor, she prosecutes gang, domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking cases. She has taken complex cases to jury trial and gained convictions and lengthy sentences on some of Fresno County’s most violent offenders.
Ms. Anderson is also an adjunct law professor, President of the Black Lawyers Association of Central California, and serves on the Board of Directors for Breaking the Chains. This non-profit organization provides resources to survivors of human trafficking. She has received multiple awards for her tireless efforts to prosecute some of the most challenging cases in Fresno County.
In April 2023, Ms. Anderson was awarded the Suzanne McDaniel Memorial Award for Public Awareness as part of the Congressional Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus. She received this prestigious congressional award for her work with Crime Victims and Survivors.

Carolyn Meissner joined the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2021. She currently serves as a Project Coordinator for multiple anti-human trafficking projects, including Building Agency Capacity: A Toolkit for Human Trafficking Investigations and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program for Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Forces. She was previously on the Mental Health/Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities team where she worked to enhance law enforcement response to individuals with mental health crises and to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who may wander due to their condition.
Prior to joining the IACP, Ms. Meissner interned at the Arlington County (VA) Police Department in the Homicide/Robbery Unit and the Madison (WI) Police Department in the Burglary Crime Unit. She also was a Research Assistant in the Child Emotion Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Weisman Center where she worked on research related to children who have been abused and their response to emotional stimuli.
Ms. Meissner has a master’s degree in forensic and legal psychology from Marymount University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a certificate in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Officer Scott Bailey has been involved in public safety for more than 35 years. He is currently a law enforcement officer with the Aspinall Police Department and a school resource officer at Kerr Elementary School. He also serves on the District Attorney’s task force for the Allegheny County’s Special Response Team (SRT) for Project Lifesaver; for which he is also an instructor. Officer Bailey has instructed classes at the Allegheny County Police Academy, the Pittsburgh Police Academy, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Police Academy. Additionally, he was a lead speaker for Montgomery County’s continuing legal education (CLE) seminar for district attorneys, public defenders, parole officers, and public first responders. He has been invited to speak to several institutes of higher education and the Allegheny County League of Municipalities at the Seven Spring Convention.

In November 2012, he spearheaded Allegheny County’s first Autism Symposium for first responders. He has partnered with Allegheny County District Attorney, Stephen A. Zappala, to produce a roll call video on autism awareness for law enforcement. Officer Bailey has collaborated with several Pennsylvania State Representatives to develop laws that help those with autism spectrum disorder. He, along with his oldest son, Trevor, who is autistic, have educated several police agencies and school districts on the importance of autism education.

Hello, my name is Trevor Bailey. I am 25 years old, and I have Autism. I currently work at Chick-fil-A doing various jobs. I love NASCAR, hockey and being with my family. I also enjoy helping my dad educate others on Autism.

Dana Bonnell is a Project Manager for the Programs Division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). At the IACP she has worked on projects related to enhancing police response to mental health and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities and gender-based voice and.

Prior to joining the IACP, Dana served as an Investigative and Social Work Intern for the Washington DC Public Defender Service Mental Health Division. Prior to that, Dana worked as an Assertive Community Treatment team manager for Pathways to Housing DC. There Dana coordinated a clinical team providing intensive and holistic community care for individuals with severe mental illness and a history of chronic homelessness.

Dana has completed her Master’s Degree in Justice and Public Policy from American University and previously earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Forensic Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven in West Haven, CT.

Jane Anderson brings her expertise in prosecuting domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking to her role as an Attorney Advisor with AEquitas. Prior to joining AEquitas, Jane served as a prosecutor in Miami, Florida where she tried many of the state's first human trafficking cases. In her role as a founding member of the Human Trafficking Unit, Jane developed policies to better identify and provide necessary services to trafficking victims, while ensuring offender accountability through the use of digital evidence and creative charging decisions. Jane also served as a supervisor in the Domestic Violence Unit, where she trained new attorneys and oversaw the prosecution of domestic violence, stalking, and violations of protection orders. Throughout her career, Jane prosecuted felony-level crimes of all types, including homicide, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Currently, Jane’s responsibilities include serving as a member of the IACP technical assistance team and as ICF’s “field coach” for human trafficking prosecutors around the U.S. Jane graduated cum laude from American University, Washington College of Law and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Sabrina Fernandez is the Program Manager for domestic human trafficking initiatives at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Her current portfolio includes the Enhancing Law Enforcement Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Operations Training and Technical Assistance Program and the National Anti-Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Program (both funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice). Prior to the last four years supporting the IACP’s human trafficking projects, Ms. Fernandez spent six years at the IACP on juvenile justice and child protection initiatives where she addressed policy and operational challenges facing law enforcement and developing tools and resources to assist law enforcement in investigating and prosecuting criminal activity, preventing and responding to victimization, and increasing community safety. Her project portfolio at the IACP has included training and technical assistance in juvenile interview and interrogation, school safety, law enforcement responses to adolescent girls, cyberbullying, adolescent brain development, school/justice collaborations, children of arrested parents, children exposed to violence, and child sex trafficking, as well as providing staff support to IACP’s Diversity Coordinating Panel, Railroad Police Section, and Patrol and Tactical Operations Committee. She previously worked at the University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center, coordinating a cybercrime investigation academy and a national training and technical assistance program providing resources to law enforcement on topics such as gang investigation, crime analysis, crime-scene investigation, and crime prevention. She has 13 years of experience supporting law enforcement and over 20 years of experience working in public service through state and municipal government and non-profit community agencies.

Joy Friedman is a survivor of sexual exploitation and an invaluable resource for women and girls within the anti-sex trafficking movement. Her exploitation began as a teenager and ended after being in the Life for 22 years. Joy successfully completed a program for sexually exploited women, and after two years of sobriety was hired at Breaking Free, a Minnesota organization that empowers survivors through housing and service provision, programming, and advocacy. At Breaking Free, Joy co-coordinated and conducted training at one of the first Offender Prostitution Programs in the country. Joy has also conducted street outreach to vulnerable and sexually exploited women and has trained other professionals in conducting outreach and providing trauma-informed responses. She has trained and provided expert consultations to a wide variety of law enforcement agencies investigating sex trafficking cases and other stakeholders on the dynamics of sexual exploitation. Committed to empowering survivors in any way she can, Joy started her own consulting business, through which she continues training and advising anti-sex trafficking stakeholders throughout the country.

Natasha Haunsperger has been a Portland Police Officer for sixteen years and in her current position as a Community Engagement Lead, she has been working on addressing complex criminal justice-related issues with immigrant and refugee communities in the Portland Metro area. Officer Haunsperger is currently working on developing holistic and innovative platforms for onboarding immigrants, refugees, communities of color, and other vulnerable and historically marginalized communities in the process of justice reforms. Officer Haunsperger also co-produced a documentary film on foreign-born labor trafficking, "Reclaiming Their Lives," and is actively working on raising public awareness about trafficking trends in the Pacific Northwest. Officer Haunsperger is committed to developing a training curriculum for first responders and community-based stakeholders, focusing on early detection and identification of labor trafficking activities and victims’ identification and rescue. In addition, she engages as an advocate with groups focused on issues of gender, socio-economic justice, and civil and human rights for justice-impacted women, with a particular focus on uplifting the voices of women in the areas of domestic and international security, conflict resolution, and peace-building processes.

JR Ujifusa has been working on human trafficking crimes and issues for the last 12 years and is also a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the district of Oregon focusing on federal human trafficking crimes. He is the Senior deputy and supervisor of the Multnomah County District Attorney's Drug and Property unit and Human Trafficking Team which oversees the Prostitution Coordination Team, the Sex Buyers Accountability and Diversion Program, First Offender Program, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Law Enforcement group, National Sex Trafficking Law Enforcement List Serve, and is the primary prosecutor for all felony prostitution and human trafficking cases within Multnomah County. JR has trained, presented and has been a guest speaker at numerous national and regional human trafficking conferences and trainings. He is a member of the Multnomah County and State of Oregon Human Trafficking Task Forces as well as the U. S. Attorney’s Oregon Foreign Born Task Force. JR serves as the chair of the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States. He co-chairs the Association of Prosecuting Attorney’s Human Trafficking Advisory Committee and the Oregon DOJ Trafficking Intervention Advisory Committee. He has been a Deputy District Attorney since 2005 and has also prosecuted drug crimes, felony property crimes, violent crimes, sexual assaults, domestic violence related crimes, gang related crimes and homicides.

Jane Anderson brings her expertise in prosecuting domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking to her role as an Attorney Advisor with AEquitas. Prior to joining AEquitas, Jane served as a prosecutor in Miami, Florida where she tried many of the state's first human trafficking cases. In her role as a founding member of the Human Trafficking Unit, Jane developed policies to better identify and provide necessary services to trafficking victims, while ensuring offender accountability through the use of digital evidence and creative charging decisions. Jane also served as a supervisor in the Domestic Violence Unit, where she trained new attorneys and oversaw the prosecution of domestic violence, stalking, and violations of protection orders. Throughout her career, Jane prosecuted felony-level crimes of all types, including homicide, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Currently, Jane’s responsibilities include serving as a member of the IACP technical assistance team and as ICF’s “field coach” for human trafficking prosecutors around the U.S. Jane graduated cum laude from American University, Washington College of Law and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Amada Bond is a former Project Coordinator in the Programs division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), where she currently works on the OVC Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Human Trafficking Task Force Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program to support the needs of the local ECM task forces. Prior to joining the IACP, Amada served as a Program Manager at CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of DC, where she designed her own program, EMPOWER. The EMPOWER program provided specialized advocacy for youth survivors of human trafficking and sex crimes cases in the DC Superior Court. Amada was a part of the District of Columbia’s Human Trafficking Task Force with the U.S. Department of Justice as a representative of CASA DC, as well as a member of the HOPE Court Planning Committee. HOPE Court is a specialized court within the DC Superior Court for youth survivors of human trafficking. Prior to working for CASA DC, Amada served as a Senior Peer Case Supervisor at CASA of Southern Maryland. Amada has more than 7 years of experience working with youth in the court system and otherwise, including various positions at a children’s advocacy center, a juvenile court and probation, a juvenile detention center, a residential facility, and an inpatient hospital. Amada holds a BA in Juvenile Law and Deviance from Gettysburg College, a MSL degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a MS degree in Justice and Public Policy from American University.

Detective Scaramucci began his career in law enforcement in 2004, and was promoted to Detective in 2008 with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office, investigating Crimes Against Persons. Since initiating investigations in Human Trafficking in 2014, Detective Scaramucci has participated in demand suppression events, arresting over 450 sex buyers with his partner in a period of 8 months. In the last 3 years, he has conducted sting operations resulting in the arrest of approximately 125 individuals for Human Trafficking and related offenses, which lead to the recovery of approximately 215 trafficking victims and seizure of more than $300,000 in currency and assets.  

Detective Scaramucci has worked both State and Federal investigation as a Task Force Officer with H.S.I., which has led to arrests and investigations throughout the U.S., Canada, China, New Zealand, and Guatemala. He has also led and trained numerous agencies throughout the U.S. on how to conduct these operations, along with operations targeting Illicit Massage Parlors.  Detective Scaramucci is certified in Courts of Law as a Subject Matter Expert in Human Trafficking. He is further employed as a consultant for the Polaris Project, and Collective Liberty, training more than 121 agencies throughout 19 states, along with providing technical support for their Human Trafficking Operations and Investigations.

Dana Bonnell is a Project Manager for the Programs Division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). At the IACP she has worked on projects related to enhancing police response to mental health and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities and gender-based voice and.

Prior to joining the IACP, Dana served as an Investigative and Social Work Intern for the Washington DC Public Defender Service Mental Health Division. Prior to that, Dana worked as an Assertive Community Treatment team manager for Pathways to Housing DC. There Dana coordinated a clinical team providing intensive and holistic community care for individuals with severe mental illness and a history of chronic homelessness.

Dana has completed her Master’s Degree in Justice and Public Policy from American University and previously earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Forensic Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven in West Haven, CT.