Erie County Assistant DA, Special Victims Unit

BA, MA Humanities & Sociology, founder WNY AmeriCorps/WNY Collaborative (ret.), independent consultant marketing and public relations, community activist

Dr. Virginia A. Batchelor is Professor of Education, children’s book author, and co-founder of Buffalo Quarters Historical Society. She received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since 2001, Dr. Batchelor has been a faculty member in the Department of Education at Medaille College. Her career includes lecturing nationally and internationally (e.g., Iasi, Romania, Shanghai China, and Mexico City). Dr. Batchelor has numerous publications including three of which she is co-author: Breaking the Code: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and School Children (2013), Human Sex Trafficking in the City: Seeking Victims among Domestic Girls (2015), and Sex Trafficking and Black Girls: Breaking the Code of Silence in Schools and in our Community (2015).

Task Force Coordinator, Western District of New York Human Trafficking Task Force

Barbara Carr is the retired Executive Director of the SPCA Serving Erie County and currently serves as Senior Shelter Consultant for the New York State Animal Protection Federation.

Professor Medaille College and guest lecturer, University at Buffalo. Dr. Craig Centrie is a professor in the School of Education. As a specialist in ethnographic data collection, he is the department's resident anthropologist. His work explores schools as a site for identity and culture construction. His most recent publication, Vietnamese Youth in an American High School, examines the identity formation of young Vietnamese refugees and their experiences in American schools. Dr. Centrie is an experienced world traveler and has lectured widely in Europe, Latin America, and Asia on education, art and human rights. In June 2005 he presented at the United Nations' Women's World Conference in Seoul, South Korea, on the experiences of Vietnamese female refugees and human rights. For over 25 years, Dr. Centrie has been an active member of Western New York's cultural community, co-founding el Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, the area's only visual arts organization dedicated to the visual art of Latinos.

Dr. Rogers served  as Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (Tenure Track; August 2010-2017) and is currently Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (History & Anthropology), since August 2017, at SUNY Empire State College. ​ She is the Principal Investigator of The Buffalo Project , in affiliation the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Center for Law & Policy Solutions (CLPS). Her dissertation will include triggers, historical memory and historical trauma.

Researcher, Professor Medaille College. Dr. Illana R. Lane, Ph.D. hails from East Hampton, NY. She is the Chief Assessment and Learning Officer at Medaille College in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Lane has experienced a 30 year career in education as an elementary teacher, higher education faculty member and administrator. She has published multiple articles and has co-authored and published three articles on domestic minor sex trafficking: Breaking the Code: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and School Children (2013); Human Sex Trafficking in the City: Seeking Victims among Domestic Girls (2015); Sex Trafficking and Black Girls: Breaking the Code of Silence in Schools and in our Community (2015).