Jill E. Korbin Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA 1978) is the Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a Distinguished Fellow at The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was in the first cohort of the Scholars in Residence Program in the mid-1970s at the Kempe Center, and was a member of the Exeutive Board of ISPCAN and an Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. During her 40+ years at Case Western Reserve University, she was a NIH-funded researcher, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Founder and Co-Director of the Child Studies Program, and Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies. Korbin served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, as a board member of ChildFund International, and President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

She was a Congressional Science Fellow (Senator Bill Bradley, D-New Jersey) and a recipient of the Margaret Mead Award. Korbin has published on culture, context and neighborhood influences on child maltreatment and edited the first volume on culture and child maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, 2018, University of California Press). With Ben-Arieh, Casas and Frones, she co-edited the five volume Handbook of Child Well-Being (2014).  Korbin and Krugman co-edited the book series Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy that includes the Handbook of Child Maltreatment (Korbin and Krugman, 2014), and the Handbook of Child Maltreatment, Second Edition (Krugman and Korbin 2022). ​resilience, violence in society from a cultural perspective, and qualitative research methodologies.

Elizabeth J. Letourneau, PhD is the Moore Family Professor and inaugural director of MOOREPreventing Child Sexual Abuse, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For 37 years she has led research, policy, and practice efforts to end child sexual abuse. Her work has resulted in more than 100 scientific publications and been cited in state and federal court cases; by state, national, and international legislatures; and featured in numerous media outlets including TEDMED. She currently advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Commission, the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, and other government, corporate, and NGO entities. Dr. Letourneau recently consulted on Great Photo, Lovely Life, an Emmy-nominated documentary about one family’s experience with child sexual abuse.​

Luciana Assini-Meytin, Ph.D., is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and the Deputy Director at MOORE, Preventing Child Sexual Abuse. Her research focuses on preventing child sexual abuse in youth serving organizations, preventing problematic sexual behavior among youth, and examining the long-term effects of childhood trauma across the life course. Her work on child sexual abuse in youth serving organizations include the development of a national prevalence survey to assess organizational efforts to prevent child sexual abuse victimization and boundary-violating behaviors in these settings. She has also explored the feasibility of expanding a desk guide aimed at preventing child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations to K-12 schools. Currently, she is conducting a nationwide prevalence survey on child sexual abuse and boundary-violating behaviors in U.S. K-12 schools.

Dr. Laura Sigad, PhD, serves as the Department Chair of the Master of Education in the Inclusive Education department within the Faculty of Graduate Studies. With a background as an educational anthropologist, Dr. Sigad’s research centers on exploring risk and resilience from a cultural perspective and encompasses a broad spectrum of critical issues, including child abuse and neglect, and childhood poverty. Specifically, she investigates the dynamics of educator-student interactions, examining how educators navigate instances of student neglect, physical and sexual violence toward children, and other forms of trauma. She teaches courses focused on risk and resilience, violence in society from a cultural perspective, and qualitative research methodologies.