Eric Skwarczynski can best be described as a storyteller.

He has spent the last 7 years fulfilling various media production roles, including as a videographer, photographer, writer & graphic designer. His work has taken him to over 20 states and 13 different countries, and has included a documentary film, an 8-episode mini-series, several commercials.

Eric is deeply passionate about raising awareness of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within Independent Baptist Churches and hopes to create a documentary on the subject.

His podcast, Preacher Boys, launched in January 2020, and quickly surpassed 350k downloads just one year later.

Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history, women’s history, and church history.

She is the president of the Conference on Faith and History and is a member of Christians for Biblical Equality.

Barr has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and is a regular contributor to The Anxious Bench, the popular Patheos website on Christian history.

She is also the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, available on Amazon here.

Patrick Weaver is an outspoken advocate and leading voice of change for victims of domestic abuse. He is dedicated to abuse prevention and intervention, empowering victims and survivors, and equipping the church to serve those harmed by intimate partner predators.

Patrick’s bold, life-giving teaching fearlessly wrestles with the realities of life, and intentionally focuses on the whole person – the complex mixture of spiritual, physical, social, mental, and emotional components that make us human.

Through his inspirational books, blogs, social media, and online presence, Patrick has the privilege of reaching and impacting over 1 million people around the world every month for the cause of Christ. His gift for helping God’s people win gives Christians practical ways to understand and live out their faith, and inspires individuals to relentlessly steer their lives towards their vision, passion, and purpose.

Order Patrick's book "He Walks With Me", transformational walk with God for victims and survivors of DV/IPV, and use promo code PROMOHWM to receive a 10% off.

Dr. Debra Wingfield has been training therapists and counseling children and adults who experienced child maltreatment and family violence for over 45 years now.

She educates and trains professionals across multiple disciplines, mental health, advocates, attorneys, and community members on the impacts of domestic abuse and coercive control.

Wingfield is the author of Eyes Wide Open: Help! with Control Freak Co-Parents helps protective parents assess and heal from domestic violence or coercive control.

Her book From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey, is a workbook to help adults heal from child maltreatment and family violence.

Through a Child's Voice: Transformational Journaling is for tweens and up who experienced child abuse and coercive control.

Sarah Bader was raised in rural Northern Idaho and attended a cult, briefly.

That experience gave her insight into the kind of woman she did NOT want to be, so she actively pursued a religion-free life.

Bader is now a small business owner. The Swaddle Company offers ethical, slow-fashion, hand-dyed, organic products. 

In her spare time, she works to help cult survivors find healing.

Brian Bennett is a 24-year law enforcement veteran. For the past 14 years he has served as a professional law enforcement trainer, specializing in the areas of domestic violence, strangulation assaults, and vulnerable adult abuse.
   

Each year, Bennett trains about 15,000 officers, as well as prosecutors, doctors, nurses, EMS, and victim service providers.

A published author and international presenter, Bennett's awards include Law Enforcement Officer of the Year (South Carolina Victim Assistance Network 2019) and Scotland Yard Award for the capture of an international murder suspect.

Jimmy Hinton, MDiv, grew up in Shanksville, PA, just one mile from where United 93 crashed on September 11, 2001.

In 2011, Jimmy’s sister confided that she had been sexually abused when she was a young child by their father, a former minister of 27 years. Jimmy reported his father to authorities which resulted in his confession of 23 victims and a conviction of 30-60 years in Pennsylvania state corrections facility.

Now, Jimmy researches child molester deception techniques and specializes in abuse in plain sight. He serves as a full time minister at the Somerset Church of Christ.

In 2021, Jimmy published The Devil Inside: How My Minister Father Molested Kids In Our Home and Church for Decades and How I Finally Stopped Him. (Buy it HERE.)

Jimmy is also speaker, abuse advocate, and safeguarding specialist with G.R.A.C.E (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment).

Jimmy and his mom, Clara, also host weekly episodes on The Speaking Out on Sex Abuse Podcast.

Dr. Dan Allender has pioneered a unique therapy centered around his innovative theory and training in transforming betrayal, ambivalence, and powerlessness into faith, hope, and love. He is a professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School and founder of The Allender Center, speaking on trauma, sexual abuse recovery, love and forgiveness, and intimacy.

He’s a popular podcaster on The Allender Center Podcast and the author of Healing the Wounded Heart, The Wounded Heart, The Healing Path, To Be Told, and God Loves Sex.

Cathy Loerzel MA, is cofounder and executive vice president of The Allender Center. 

Cathy has spent the last decade working with Dan Allender to develop Trauma Informed Narrative Theory and is a popular speaker and instructor. She and her husband live in Seattle with their two children, two dogs, and thirteen chickens.

Professor Evan Stark is a forensic social worker and author of several books including Coercive Control. 

A lecturer at Yale and Rutgers University, he has also held appointments at the University of Essex, Bristol University and the University of Edinburgh.

Stark’s award-winning book was the original source of the coercive control model when the United Kingdom’s Home Office widened the definition of domestic violence. Stark played a major role in the consultation that led to the drafting of the new Coercive Control law in the United Kingdom. 

Stark is a world-renowned expert on Coercive Control consulted by state governments, domestic violence organizations and the media on intimate partner abuse and control using psychological manipulation and terror.

Dr Rob Jensen, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, collaborates with New Perennials Publishing and the New Perennials Project. 

He is the author of many books, including The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (2017) and Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (2007).

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her law degree from Yale Law School. Tuerkheimer served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence and child abuse prosecution.

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Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. DeKeseredy has published 27 books, over 130 scientific journal articles and close to 100 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems.

In 2008, the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology (DCC) and in 2008 the DCC gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology. In 2017, he received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology and the Robert Jerrin Book Award from the ASC’s Division on Victimology. In 2022, he was named an ASC Fellow.