Amy Albert is a consultant for Massachusetts' Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network Initiative, led by the Youth Advocacy Foundation and the Committee for Public Counsel Services. She was an associate at the Massachusetts' criminal defense firm of Rankin and Sultan from 2002 to 2004. She then joined the Brooklyn staff of the Legal Aid Society's Juvenile Rights Project where she represented more than five hundred young people in delinquency proceedings. Amy is an active participant in Massachusetts' Alternative to Detention Initiative. She serves on the Disproportionate Minority Contact subcommittee of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee to the Governor. Albert is a 1998 graduate of Swarthmore College and a 2002 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.

Joshua Dohan is the Director of the Youth Advocacy Project, the only juvenile defender unit of the Massachusetts statewide public defender agency. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1980) and Northeastern University School of Law (1988). Joshua Dohan became a public defender in 1988 and joined YAP, at its inception, as its first staff attorney in 1992 and assumed the role of Director in 1999. Mr. Dohan is a returned Peace Corps volunteer, Ghana (1982-84). He is the 1998 recipient of the Access to Justice Award from the Massachusetts Bar Association. Mr. Dohan is on the Board of Directors of the African American Federation of Greater Boston, a founding Member of the Equal Justice Partnership, a Eureka Fellow, a member of the LeadBoston class of 2001, and a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Institute on Race and Justice.

Charles Faris serves as President and Chief Executive Officerof Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. With more than 30 years of experience in the field ofaddiction treatment, Mr. Faris is regarded as one of the most authoritative experts in the administration of behavioral health care programming. His appointments have included Chairman of the Central Massachusetts Substance Abuse Association and President of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association of Massachusetts. He is also the 1991 recipient of the National Nyswander Dole Award for Outstanding Contribution to Methadone Treatment and the Francis O'Brien Award for Leadership in the Field of Substance Abuse.

Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His research interests include clinical forensic assessment in criminal and juvenile cases, developmental issues in juvenile law, mental health needs of youths in the juvenile justice system, and risk of violence in adults and youths with mental disorders. Among Dr. Grisso's many accomplishments (too many to list here) is his participation in the renowned MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.

William Lyttle has been President of Key since 1977. Bill holds a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University, and a M.Ed. in Leadership and Educational Administration from Worcester State College. He has served in numerous public policy leadership positions including President of the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Chairperson of the Children's League of Massachusetts, and Chairperson of the Trustees of Worcester State College. Bill is President and a founding member of Citizens For Juvenile Justice and has received many awards for leadership including the Richard J. Bond Award for Excellence in Human Services.

Rebecca Pries, LMHC, serves as Executive Director of Adolescent Consultation Services (ACS). ACS operates the Middlesex County Juvenile Court Clinics, which provide a range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for high-risk, court-involved youth and their families. Rebecca has a particular interest in effective treatment responses and delivery of services for youth with mental health and behavior problems. She supervises the clinical work of child psychiatry fellows and graduate student interns placed at the Cambridge Juvenile Court Clinic. She is co-author of the book, Kids and the Law: A User's Guide to the Court System, a practical guide to laws and court practices that affect juveniles, currently available in Spanish-English and Khmer-English editions.

Jennifer Ryan ("Jen") is an attorney at Dwyer & Collora, LLP practicing in the areas of criminal defense, employment, health care and complex civil litigation. Prior to joining Dwyer & Collora, LLP, in 2006, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Cordy of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Jen graduated from Bowdoin College and Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown University Law Center, she participated in the Juvenile Justice and Street Law clinics and was a law clerk at the Youth Law Center. Her experiences prepared her to be an advocate for juvenile offenders, criminal defendants and civil litigants. Prior to law school, Jen served as the Children's Advocate at an emergency shelter for family violence and sexual assault through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and worked at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office doing outreach and education about workers' right in immigrant communities across the Commonwealth.

Nichelle Sadler is the Boston Area Director for Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps.

Jeanne M. Schuster, Esq., CPA is a senior tax manager at Ernst & Young LLP specializing in tax-exempt organizations. Her experience with taxexempt organizations includes representation during IRS and state audits, including IRS CEP examinations, mergers and reorganizations of exempt and taxable corporations, applications for exempt status, unrelated business income tax, employment tax, information reporting, and sales tax issues. She is an Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University and teaches a course on Tax-Exempt Organizations. Ms. Schuster is a member of the American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, and Mass Bar Association. She is also a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association- Tax Committee. Schuster received her B.S. Degree in Accounting from Bentley College, her Juris Doctor from the New England School of Law, and her LL.M. Degree from Boston University School of Law.

Ed Stern, President of CfJJ from 2001-2003, began his involvement representing juveniles in Massachusetts as a staff attorney at the Boston Legal Assistance Project/Juvenile Court Advocacy Program. From there he moved on to the Legal Counsel for Treatment Alternative to Street Crime for Juveniles at the Youth Activities Committee for the City of Boston. He has been teaching juvenile delinquency and criminal and juvenile justice classes with internships at the University of Massachusetts at Boston for the past 29 years. Presently, most of his time is split between the private practice of law and academic interests. He writes a regular column in The New England Psychologist (formerly The Massachusetts Psychologist) covering a number of juvenile issues in several of the articles.

Scott Taberner has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) since October, 2005. MBHP manages the behavioral health care of more than 300,000 MassHealth members, including 20,000 children in the care and custody of the Department of Social Services, and more than 2,500 youth committed to the Department of Youth Services. Previously, Mr. Taberner was the Chief Financial Officer at MBHP for three years. Prior to joining MBHP, Mr. Taberner worked within state government for 21 years, including 13 years in various positions at the Department of Youth Services. Mr. Taberner received his B.A. from Assumption College and earned his Masters in Public Administration at the University of Massachusetts.

Susan Wayne is Vice President for Development at the Justice Resource Institute and President of Wayne Associates. She served as Chief Executive of the Justice Resource Institute from 1979 until September of 2006. She has served as Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs, and Director of Program and Staff Development at the New York State Urban Development Corporation. She has also held other public and private positions in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.

Cheryl Vince Whitman has been a Senior Vice President at Education Development Center and Division Director of EDC's Health and Human Development Programs since 1992. She has also served as the Director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center since 1997. Ms. Whitman received her B.A. in Psychology from Boston University and her Masters in Education (EdM) in Human Development from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.