Dr. Ogle is an Assistant Professor at the George Washington University. She is a former RN and first-generation college graduate and physician. She is engaged in medical student, resident and fellow education. Her roles include Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Director, Executive Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee for the residency, leading the Medical Education and Leadership Scholarly Concentration as well as Clinician as a Medical Educator course. She co-founded her department’s women’s professional development group,. She’s also been actively involved in AWAEM and SAEM as the Didactics chair from 2018-2020 and is now the VP of Education for AWAEM. As co-chair of the AWAEM Task Force on women’s groups, they developed the AWAEM Toolkit 2020 Edition [issuu.com] as a resource for women in academic emergency medicine. She’s working closely with the leadership of SCUF as the chair of the Accreditation Documents Task Force, a group preparing resources for all AEMUS programs to use in preparation for US fellowship accreditation through EUFAC. Her professional interests include point of care ultrasound, medical education, mentorship, female leadership and promotion. She balances her academic and professional responsibilities with her role as a single mom.

Dr. Adrianne Artis is a pediatrician who subspecialized in Child Abuse Pediatrics. She obtained her medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC and she completed her general pediatrics residency at Orlando Health, in Orlando Florida. Dr. Artis then went on to complete a fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Emory University. During fellowship, Dr. Artis focused her fellowship research project on racial disparities in child abuse evaluation. Dr. Artis joined the Child and Adolescent Protection Center at Children’s National Medical Center in August 2018 as a full time Child Abuse Pediatrician, and Medical Director of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) program. As part of the Child and Adolescent Protection Team, she provides a medical opinion for the District of Columbia and Prince Georges Counties multi-disciplinary teams. Dr. Artis also sees patients referred from the surrounding counties in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas. Patient evaluations include seeing patients on an outpatient basis at the Children’s National Medical Center Hospital based CAPC clinic and the Safe Shores clinic at the Bundy School, as well as conducting inpatient consults for children who are admitted to Children’s National Medical Center Hospital. Dr. Artis is excited to have started working in this field and she looks forward to continuing to work with community partners.

Destiny Bryant is currently a Senior Assistant District Attorney at the Newton County District Attorney’s Office in Covington, Georgia. She has been a prosecutor for over 7 years, and she has specialized training in prosecuting cases involving sexual and physical abuse of women and children. In 2015, Ms. Bryant worked alongside chief prosecutor Dalia Racine to start an Anti-Trafficking and Exploitation Unit in DeKalb County Georgia. In that capacity, she gained extensive knowledge by working closely with multidisciplinary teams, law enforcement, and victims to gain a full understanding of how to aggressively prosecute human trafficking cases. She now uses her experience to train others in the community on how to identify and understand victims. She also works with law enforcement and other prosecutors to help build their cases and protect children. She is an adjunct professor at Emory Law School where she teaches an anti-human trafficking course to help law students understand the impact human trafficking can have on legal systems and society-at-large. Ms. Bryant lives in Covington, Georgia with her husband and their small child.

Allison McCarley Jackson, MD, MPH, is a board certified Child Abuse Pediatrician serving as the Division Chief of the Child and Adolescent Protection Center of Children’s National Medical Center, and as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University. As a pediatrician on her team for over 16 years, she evaluates and treats children victimized by all forms of child maltreatment. As an extension of her clinical work, she has testified as a medical expert throughout the region. Her additional responsibilities include providing physician leadership to the District of Columbia’s Multidisciplinary Team on Child Abuse. Dr. Jackson is an active member of the Children’s Academy of Pediatric Educators through which she is working to improve early identification of abuse and neglect by physicians by enhancing the education of pediatricians on the recognition and response to child physical abuse. Dr. Jackson also provides clinical and didactic instruction to medical students, residents, fellows, and to child-serving professionals in the region on the subject of child maltreatment and its impact across the lifespan. Dr. Jackson, is a 2014 recipient of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families Commissioner’s Award, and most recently received the honor of an Endowed Professorship by the Washington Children’s Foundation. Her advocacy on behalf of victims of child abuse and neglect is reflected in her service on the DC Children’s Justice Act Task Force, the DC Victim Assistance Network, and as the Ray Helfer Society’s representative to the National Coalition of Child Abuse. She has been a primary and co-investigator in a number of research protocols and has several publications.

Jedidiah D. Smith, PhD, CHHP, has been in private practice for more than 35 years involving Traditional Naturopathy, Preventative Supplementation, Clinical Reflexology, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Holistic Life Coaching and various therapies. He is founder/owner of The Center for Holistic Wellness & Anti-Aging, a private practice of Holistic Medicine and other modalities and practitioners. In 1988 Dr. Smith was co-founder and CEO/CFO of The Ohio Academy of Holistic Health, Inc. which was the first Holistic Medical Academy of its type federally accredited in the United States. He has lectured internationally on many topics pertaining to Holistic Wellness & Mind/Body Medicine, Integrative therapies as it relates to Allopathic Medicine and approaches as well as the latest research concerning the science of wellness. He practices what he teaches.

Executive Director, the DC Rape Crisis Center (DCRCC). Ms. Henard has been with the DC Rape Crisis Center for the last thirteen years serving in different capacities, lending invaluable experience including leadership roles in fundraising, operations, cultivating relationships and strategic partnerships, as well as coalition building. Under Ms. Henard’s Executive leadership she has not only repositioned the oldest rape crisis center in the country, but she has laid a strong foundation as the agency prepares to celebrate 50 years of survivor centered, and community led services. Additionally, under Ms. Henard’s leadership the DC Rape Crisis Center received the 2019, and 2020 Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal, the 2019 and 2020 Best of Washington Award to include the Business Hall of Fame, as well as the 2019 Agency of the Year Award by the National Association of Social Workers. Ms. Henard’ s direct service experience in many gender-based violence programs has helped to inform her policy analysis that has led to coordinating public policy initiatives and organizing and planning spaces for survivor led advocacy. Spanning over 20 years of dedicated service in the violence against women's movement, Ms. Henard’ s experience exemplifies her expertise in non-profit management, organizational development, crisis management , education, training, fundraising and public policy. Ms. Henard has worked nationally and internationally in helping organizations build capacity to respond to the needs of sexual violence in their communities. Ms. Henard’s high level training and technical assistance provided to local nonprofits, and international NGO’s has resulted in the repositioning of the sexual assault coalition in the District of Columbia, opening the first rape crisis center in Lagos, Nigeria, as well as working with a coalition of international NGOs in developing a mobile app to aid refugee workers who are working with sexual assault victims. Ms. Henard has been recognized locally, and nationally, for her contributions to the violence against women movement to include, but not limited to the following, the 2015 national "Victim Impact Award" from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2018, Ms. Henard was named by Essence Magazine as one of four African American women on the ground doing sexual violence work. She was also named in 2018 by the Washington City Paper as one of 20 people in DC making a difference. She also received the 2018 alumni achievement award from National Catholic School of Social Service at the Catholic University of America. Ms. Henard was named the 2019 Community Leader of the Year by RALIANCE, as well as she received the 2019 40 under 40 award from the Washington Business Journal. Ms. Henard received the 2020 Washington Women of Excellence Award presented by Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, DC, and was named by Washington Business Journal as one of 2020’s People on the Move. Additionally, Ms. Henard was selected to be a part of the 2021 class of Leadership Greater Washington. Most recently, Ms. Henard was awarded the 2020 Washingtonian of the Year award. Ms. Henard currently sits on numerous boards and commissions including but not limited to the Advisory Board of Women at Risk International Foundation –WARIF located in Lagos, Nigeria. The alumni board of the National Catholic School of Social Service where she also holds a faculty appointment, the Board of Directors for the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, the Presidents Commission, Alumni Board and Board of Trustee’s at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Ms. Henard was most recently appointment DC Commissioner on the Sexual Harassment Prevention Commission by the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Ms. Henard has been featured on such media outlets as Fox DC, ABC Washington, CNN, USA Today, The Complex, AOL, NBC Washington, Washington Post, WHUR Radio, Ventor’s Africa, Business Daily Online, The Root, Essence Magazine, as well as The Cult have interviewed Ms. Henard. Ms. Henard holds a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from Wheaton College (MA), and a Masters of Social Work degree from the National Catholic School of Social Service at the Catholic University of America. Additionally, Ms. Henard has deep ties within the policy sector having served as a Ralph Bunche Institute Fellow at Duke University, a Congressional Truman Fellow on Capitol Hill, a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Georgetown Law Center. Additionally, Ms. Henard was a Shannon Institute Fellow at the Wilder Foundation. Before joining the DC Rape Crisis Center, Ms. Henard served as a Senate Aide for Senator Barack Obama D-IL on Capitol Hill, as well as Special Assistant on his Presidential Campaign. Sexual violence work by nature is challenging, and we want people who are committed and dedicated to not only doing this work, but also doing this work in community. Ms. Henard has the energy of a woman in her 20s, the confidence of a woman in her 30s, the experience of a woman in her 40s and the grace of a woman in her 50s. She is timeless; her combination of poise, kindness and intelligence is one for the history books. For a time such as this, Ms. Henard is the one she represents a new level of Leadership in the Greater Washington area, and beyond.

Karma Cottman, is the Executive Director of the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, a project of the Coalition. Before joining the Coalition in 2010, Karma was employed at the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV). As the Vice President of Policy and Emerging Issues, she directed the agency’s policy agenda and supervised NNEDV’s state coalition and housing technical assistance projects. Ms. Cottman worked closely with national policy partners to strengthen federal legislation to effectively respond to the needs of all survivors of domestic violence and federal agencies to enhance violence against women programming. Since 1994, Karma, a Washington D.C. native, has worked with numerous national partners to address emerging issues in domestic violence service provision and sits on several national committees. Karma served as the co-director of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Rural Diversity Initiative where she assisted with the development of a community assessment tool used to identify service gaps in numerous local Florida communities. Karma also served on the steering committee of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African Community and the Policy Partnership for Communities of Color.