2012 Speakers
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Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D., M.Ed., is an expert in bullying and youth violence prevention. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Education. She is the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Early Intervention. She collaborates on federally supported randomized trials of school-based prevention programs and works with the Maryland State Department of Education and several school districts and national organizations to support the development and implementation of programs and policies to prevent bullying and youth violence. She has written over 100 papers and chapters on topics related to bullying, school climate, and youth violence prevention. She received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy, and career awards from the Society for Research in Child Development and the Society for Prevention Research. She has served on several expert panels on bullying, including the 2011 White House Summit on Bullying. |
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Media Specialist Laura Brown is currently a library media specialist at Wheaton High School in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCSP). She has been a media specialist for almost twenty years. Her experience includes being a media specialist at a community college, a university, and grades PreK- 12th, a military library, and a state agency. She was also a technology consultant for MCSP for three years. In this role she trained teachers, administrators, and other school staff personnel the technology being used in the school system. Ms. Brown is from Detroit, Michigan and has an undergraduate degree in Economics, with a minor in African American Studies Pennsylvania State University. She has her Masters in Library Services from the University of Alabama, and a Masters in Elementary Education from Auburn University. She also has a certification in Educational Leadership from Auburn University, and graduate course work in aeronautics from Oklahoma State University. She has presented at a number of state conferences which include MSTA and MICCA, and is a certified Promethean trainer and ThinkPort trainer for Maryland Public Television. She resides in Hanover, Maryland and enjoys scrap booking, card making, rug hooking, writing, and biking. |
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary Clarissa Cerda is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of LifeLock. Cerda serves on the LifeLock executive leadership team and manages LifeLock's legal, compliance, government affairs, and human resources functions. She brings more than 19 years’ experience of lawyering and negotiation, effective management, and strategic advising in fast-paced, technology corporations, leading law firm and the White House. Before joining LifeLock, Cerda served as vice president, general counsel, and chief privacy officer of Initiate Systems, Inc. and as vice president, general counsel, and assistant secretary for Open Port Technology, Inc. Prior to that, she served as a Corporate and Securities partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and as the assistant counsel to the President of the United States in the White House. She currently sits on the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Previously, Cerda has held various national positions on the American Bar Association (ABA), including the co-chair of the ABA’s Science and Technology Law Section's Privacy Committee. Cerda graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in government. She earned an M. Phil. from the University of Western Australia and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. She also undertook post-doctoral studies in European Community Law at l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. |
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PAN AM Games Boxing Team Franchon Crews is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia but resides in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Fredrick Douglas High school where she eventually started developing her singing voice. Overheard by salon owner and celebrity hairstylist, Milroy Harried took Franchon under his wing to mold her into a singer. This led to her having to lose some weight because at the time she was 205lbs. re cording at a studio she heard two of her friends talking about losing 5 lbs. in one day with boxing. And that’s where her life changed for the better. A rising international amateur boxing champion has accumulated 11 national titles and 3 international titles. She has competed domestically and internationally in world tournaments in Podolsk, Russia (05), Buenos Aires, Argentina (’06) Guayaquil, Ecuador (’07), Trinidad & Tobago (08),Guadalajara, Mexico (’11), London, England (’11) and Canada (’12). After returning from a two year break Franchon Crews made history by becoming one of the first women in US history to be on the women’s Pan American boxing team. Just missing her chance at making the first ever Women’s Olympic team in 2012 she moved up to a heavier weight class of 178 lbs. and won. Franchon Crews also was a contestant on the popular TV show called “American Idol” in 2005. Motivational speaking is also one of Franchon’s passions because it allows her to give back to the community. She believes that it is her responsibility to be a positive role model to inner city youth and adults. Speaking at numerous events and hopes to continue letting her voice be heard. It’s amazing to her to know that her trials and tribulations can help change someone else’s life. Her Inspiration comes from my mother Marie Crews who keeps her grounded and focus. In Jan. 2005 she was told that she was going to die due to numerous health conditions. The motto Franchon lives by is “She fights to live, I fight to win!” All this is possible with the grace of her GOD, family, friends and people who supported her. |
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Supervisor of Instruction Brad Engel has been with the Queen Anne’s County School system for the past 24 years. He has served as a teacher, school administrator and is currently the Supervisor of Student Services for the Queen Anne’s County school system. In 2005 he was named the Maryland Teacher of the Year by the Maryland State Department of Education. In 2010, Mr. Engel was honored by Discover for his work with bullying prevention and interventions at the school level and in his name $25,000 was awarded to the Queen Anne’s County school system in recognition of his efforts. Mr. Engel holds a Master’s degree in Administration from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of five books on such topics as leadership development and generating positive interventions at the school level. Mr. Engel currently resides in Ellicott City with his wife and family. |
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Behavior Specialist Michael joined the Maryland State Department of Education on July 2011 after spending 8 years at Johns Hopkins University Institute of Policy Studies (Sar Levitan Center). His focus was developing trainings for human service agencies working with Ex-offenders and “At-Risk” youth for the US Department of Labor and Justice. Michael has over 20 years experience providing direct care for “At-Risk” youth via the educational and criminal justice systems. He has served as program director for a juvenile justice agency, behavior counselor in one of the local systems, and is listed by several federal agencies as a technical assistance expert in the area of Prisoner Reentry, and Programmatic Policy. Most recently his focus has been alternative education methodology and climate & cultural responsiveness in public school settings. He has developed trainings in the areas of Bullying prevention, anger management, individual service plan development, peer mediation, relationship and team building to name a few. Currently, Michael has been providing technical assistance to Local school systems in the area of Bullying prevention and the MDS3 initiative; assisting in the development trainings and support for PBIS Maryland, which will continue to support MDS3 and PBIS efforts in Maryland. |
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Director Government Affairs Deb Griffith joined LifeLock as the Director of Government Affairs in January 2011 and helps lead on legislative and regulatory matters related to identity theft protection on Federal, State and Local levels. Deb’s background is specialized in the area of training and development and prior to joining LifeLock, Griffith provided consulting services, specialized in training, organizational development, and strategic planning. Some clients included Disney, Nestle, Avery, PowerWave and Acts of Mercy. In addition, Griffith’s insight and multifarious background provided the platform for her advocacy work where she provided consultancy to non-profits and foundations on efforts for partnerships with the public and private sector, academia and government agencies to advance projects and services. Recognized as a leading force on such issues, Griffith provided frequent speaking services, invited for consultations and was actively involved in an advisory capacity with the U.S. Department of State. In 2009, at the request of the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, she participated in roundtable sessions at the White House. As the Southern California State Director for the organization, “Not For Sale”, Griffith launched successful anti human trafficking initiatives engaging academia, legislators, law enforcement, and local communities. She also helped lead a key advocacy unit that influenced national policy related to the crime of trafficking in persons, working with congressional representatives and policy makers. Deb’s experiences span across domestic and global fronts in Asia, Europe, Africa, Central Asia, Middle East and throughout the United States. She conceptualized and executed a monumental collaboration in Rwanda, Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo on education, social and health development. Utilizing sport and music as tools for diplomacy and community development, Griffith provided strategies for children at risk and capacity building for women in leadership. Public events resulted in 400- 8000 in attendance. Deb served on the board and as advisor for Sons of Congo, working with government, military and service providers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She also served on the board for Cal State, Fullerton University’s “Legacies” program. For more than 10 years, she has actively served on local PTA membership in various capacities, most recently as the Chair of the “Social Responsibility” Committee. |
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Information Security Researcher Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to keep all kids, including his own, safe online. Ben comes by his passion and expertise honestly. By day, he is an information security researcher and practitioner for a Fortune 500 firm. By night, he is a champion for the protection of children in cyberspace. Ben is the author of two books for wildly divergent audiences. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets A Computer (October, 2010) is a picture book which teaches online safety to preschool age children. For those in the business field, Ben’s next book, Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2011. Seeing a void in the conversation about online safety for children before they begin K-12, Ben created a nonprofit to represent those who cannot speak for themselves: infants, toddlers and preschool children. Savvy Cyber Kids, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is now working with the National Cyber Security Alliance and other organizations towards filling the gap. Ben was a contributing author to Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security and the Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security. Ben writes the security column for Mobile Enterprise Magazine and has contributed to seven NIST special publications and Ben is on the advisory board of numerous colleges and universities. He has keynoted and presented sessions at numerous conferences, including the RSA Security Conference, InfoSec World, IEEE, and ACM conferences. Ben is an adjunct instructor at a local University where he teaches the Master’s of IT information security concentration curriculum. Ben is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is a PhD candidate at Nova Southeastern University. |
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President Ms. Hancock currently serves as the president of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and brings over 16 years of public service, education and business management experience to her position. She founded the Mountain West String Academy, a highly successful music education program funded by public and private grants and through donations. Gathering university staff, school principals, professional musicians, college students, and parent volunteers, she created the program that currently carries up to 300 students. Ms. Hancock also founded the Science Summer Workshop, a hands-on, advanced youth science tutoring program, where she organized curriculum, lessons and activities that cover basic chemistry, virology and biology. A highly talented musician, Ms. Hancock worked as a professional violinist for over 25 years, completing a solo CD and numerous studio recordings for films and symphonic soundtracks. She served as an adjunct faculty member for the Utah State University School of Music and is an occasional substitute for the Utah Symphony. Ms Hancock earned her violin performance degree in music from Brigham Young University and is the mother of six children. She enjoys gourmet cooking, gardening and hiking with her children. |
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Deputy Division Chief Lisa Hone leads the E-rate team at the Federal Communications Commission as an Acting Deputy Division Chief in the Telecommunications Access Policy Division in the Wireline Competiton Bureau. Ms. Hone has also worked on the Commission's Lifeline and Rural Healthcare programs and on privacy issues for the Wireline Competition Bureau. Ms. Hone served as a legal advisor on Wireline issues for former Commissioner Copps. Prior to joining the staff of the FCC, Ms. Hone worked on consumer protection issues at the Federal Trade Commission. |
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Enterprise Community Partners Catherine Hyde (aka Will’s mom) is director of Online Services for the national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners. She did not listen to her child when he, at the age of 4, told her that something had gone wrong in her belly and that he was supposed to be a she. She did not understand transgender or gender identity until NPR educated her 11 years later. Since becoming educated, Catherine has volunteered as Transgender Coordinator for the Howard County chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and speaks and trains on transgender understanding and sensitivity. Catherine also serves on PFLAG’s National Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Advisory Panel, as well as on the Public Advisory Boards of Gender Rights Maryland and the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore. |
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Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lillian M. Lowery became Maryland State Superintendent of Schools and Secretary-Treasurer of the State Board on July 1, 2012. She moved to Maryland from Delaware, where she served as Secretary of Education since January 2009. As the State Chief, she facilitated a broad-based statewide strategic planning and grant application process, resulting in Delaware being selected one of the first states to be awarded a coveted federal Race to the Top grant. She led efforts to establish Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Units as well as Turnaround Units within the Department, which have assisted in the implementation of the grant and the improvement of instructional opportunities for students Dr. Lowery has worked in various education institutions and programs since 1976. Prior to becoming Secretary of Education, she served for three years as the Superintendent of the Christina School District in New Castle County, DE. She has served as an Assistant Superintendent in Fairfax County, VA, and an Area Superintendent in Fort Wayne, IN. She held other administrative positions, and began her career as an English teacher at the middle and high school levels in Virginia. A graduate in English and Secondary Education at North Carolina Central University, Dr. Lowery received her Master's of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina, and her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Virginia Polytechnic and State University. |
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Director, National Cybersecurity Education Strategy
On 19 April 2010 Ms. Maxson was appointed to her most recent position Director of National Cybersecurity Education Strategy at the Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity she leads DHS efforts to build capability within the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) as well as co-leading the training and professional development component of the initiative. DHS requested Ms. Maxson for this position following her previous position as the Education Portfolio Manager on the Director of National Intelligence Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force (JIACTF). At the JIACTF she led a cybersecurity education subgroup of the White House Information and Communication Infrastructure Interagency Policy Committee (ICI-IPC) which resulted in the accepted recommendation and subsequent implementation of the establishment of NICE. Ms Maxson has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from the University of Maryland. She is a graduate of the 2005-2006 National Security Fellowship Program at Harvard University where she focused her studies on leadership and international issues. Ms Maxson lives in Catonsville Md and has two children Steven aged 28 a biochemist working at the Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health and budding landscape architect and Laura aged 25 a successful artist her focus on portraitures in oils working for internationally recognized artist Jeff Koons in New York City. |
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Laurie Nathan Manager of National Outreach and Partnerships NetSmartz Laurie Nathan is the Manager of Outreach for the NetSmartz Workshop, an educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and brings with her a background in child exploitation and child abuse prevention to the fight against child endangerment on the Internet. Laurie analyzed Internet-related child exploitation cases and worked closely with law enforcement to have them resolved while working as a staff analyst in the Exploited Child Division (ECD) at NCMEC. As the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse of Metropolitan Washington, she focused on child abuse prevention outreach campaigns for the Washington, D.C. metro area and trained hundreds of volunteers to handle calls on a support line for children. Most recently, Laurie’s focus has been on spreading awareness of the importance of Internet safety education. She has presented on this issue at many educator and law enforcement conferences, including the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference, T + L Conference sponsored by the National School Boards Association, and the Internet Crimes Against Children National Conference. Laurie’s goal is to educate and engage communities on ways to better protect children on- and offline. Laurie is an alumna of Emory University in Atlanta, GA where she graduated with highest honors in Psychology. |
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Captain Rick Rubel Capt Rubel, grew up in a navy family as son of Rear Admiral and Mrs. D.M. Rubel of La Jolla CA, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1972. He completed a 30-year career in which he had two commands. Capt Rubel has taught the Core ethics Course at the Naval Academy for 14 years. In 2002 he was appointed to be the first Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics at the Naval Academy. Since that time he has served as the Course Director of the Core Ethics Course for 10 years. In this capacity he has co-authored and co-edited the two text books and had several articles published in Journals. His text books and class notes are also being used by all of the 59 NROTC universities in the country to teach the Ethics Course. He trains all of the new NROTC Professors of Naval Science around the country each summer, and he conducts a 3-week summer seminar for all of the 41 Captains and Commanders at USNA who teach the course. In 2004 and 2006, the Chief of Navy Chaplains asked him to travel around the world with a team of Ethicists to train the Navy Chaplain Corps in Military Ethics. Between the 2004 and 2006 Seminars he wrote 18 case studies about navy Chaplains the dilemmas they face. He is currently giving seminars to the Navy Chaplain School, Command Leadership School, and the Navy Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG), Navy Supply School, Fleet Commanding Officer Symposiums, and Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Military Ethics. He also gives talks to many companies and universities around the country. He has served on the Maryland State Board for Character Education the past 8 years, and takes Midshipmen out to Maryland schools to give talks on Character to students. He does all the training at the Naval Academy in Honor Remediation. In his spare time, he is working on his PhD from the University of London and has written several books for children on character and moral development. |
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Richard Scott Richard D. Scott is a School Counseling Specialist for the Maryland State Department of Education. He has thirty two years of experience teaching and leading school counselors, including directors of student services, to implement a comprehensive, developmental school counseling program and an effective student services program mandated by the Code of Maryland Regulations. He has trained, supervised, and facilitated all levels of student services professionals, and has been instrumental in developing and implementing career development and youth suicide prevention programs. Mr. Scott is responsible for effective management of home schooling programs and implementation of peer programs. |
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Dr. Katie Shilton Dr. Shilton's research focuses on ethics and policy for the design of information technologies, systems, and collections. She received her Master's and Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA in 2011. I teach courses in information policy, information and technology ethics. Full CV at http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~kshilton/ |
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Deborah Temkin, PhD Deborah Temkin, Ph.D. is the Research and Policy Coordinator for Bullying Prevention Initiatives with the Office of Safe and Healthy Students, in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the US Department of Education. In that role, she contributes to all activities in the Department that relate to bullying and bullying prevention including managing the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Working Group, a coalition of 9 federal agencies working towards reducing peer to peer bullying in American Schools and chairing the editorial board for StopBullying.gov. She was central in coordinating and executing the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summits held in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention in March, 2011. In May, 2012 Temkin was named as a finalist for the Service to America Medals for outstanding service by a federal employee under the age of 35. Temkin recently completed her Doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University and also holds a Master of Arts in Education Theory and Policy. |
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Stephan Tisher Stephan Tisher is the National Outreach Coordinator for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children located in Alexandria, VA. He has served as a Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Communications and Outreach and as Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. Recently, Stephan’s focus has been on spreading awareness of the importance of Internet safety education. He began his career at the Ohio Treasury where he served as Assistant to the Treasurer. |
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Larry Wong Mr. Wong is Information Assurance and Risk Management Supervisor, and CyberSafety Program manager for the 140,000-student Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD. |
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Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH is Senior Vice President and head of the Child Health Advocacy Institute, a newly established center of excellence at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. In that capacity, Dr. Wright provides strategic leadership for the organization’s advocacy mission, public policy positions and community partnership initiatives. He also serves as Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Center, a sub-acute care affiliate of Children’s National. |
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Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Ph.D. Dr. Davina Pruitt-Mentle, a senior researcher and policy analyst for Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach (ETPRO) has worked in the field of STEM education & educational and cyberawareness research since 1990. She has spent the past 12 years conducting research on student and educator cyberawareness and K-16 cyberethics, safety and security awareness programs, and developing programs to help increase the IS/IA workforce pipeline. Research and development interests have focused on the Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity (C3) framework. Some of her recent published work has focused on the state of C3 awareness knowledge and programs, cyberawareness strategies, and SECURE IT, a holistic approach program to promote C3 and connect to careers in IA/IS/Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. She acts as a CO- PI on the NSF funded CyberWatch Regional Center, PI for the CyberWatch/UMD Digital Forensics Lab, PI of the MD BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) –EIS-C MD (Expanding IS Capacity in MD), and serves on numerous national, state and local Technology Task Forces and Advisory Boards. She has served as faculty lecturer within the College of Education at UMCP since 2001, and served as Director of Educational Technology Outreach within the College of Education at UMCP from 2001-2008. She has a PhD in Educational Technology Policy from the University of Maryland. |
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