
Panelist:Gil Vigil, Administrator of the Santa Fe Indian School and Board Member of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, District of New Mexico, Attorney General Gary King of New Mexico, Anna Martinez, Senior Advisor to the Associate Attorney General and Defending Childhood Initiative Co-Chair, Robert Listenbee, Jr., J.D. and Joe Torre, Defending Childhood Task Force Co-chairs, and Members of the Defending Childhood Task Force.
Panelist: Rochelle A., Vice President of Leaders Uniting Voices Youth Advocates (LUVYA) of New Mexico, Elsie Boudreau, LMSW, Alaska Native Justice Center, and Ivy Wright-Bryan, National Director of Native American Mentoring, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Panelist: Paul Smokowski, MSW, Ph.D., CP, Director of the North Carolina Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (NC-ACE),
Carole Justice, Coordinator of the Indian Country Methamphetamine Program, and Nate Monson, Executive Director of Iowa Safe Schools
Panelist: Mato Standing High, Attorney General of Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Janell Regimbal, Senior Vice President, Children and Family Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, and Annie Pelletier Kerrick, Idaho Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Project
Panelist: Dolores Subia BigFoot, Ph.D., Director, Indian Country Child Trauma Center and Project Making Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), Lyle Claw, President, Changing Lives Around the World (CLAW) Inc., Coloradas Mangas, President of the Mescalero Apache Youth Council and Youth Board Member for the Center for Native American Youth, and Maria Brock, LISW, Tribal Home Visiting Project Director, Native American Professional Parent Resources, Inc.
Members of the public provide testimony to the task force.
Panelist: Bernard P. Perlmutter, Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic, University of Miami School of Law, The Honorable Cindy S. Lederman, Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court of Miami-Dade County, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida, Defending Childhood Task Force Co-Chairs Joe Torre and Robert Listenbee, Jr. Defending Childhood Task Force Members.
Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services
Panelist: The Honorable Mark Luttrell, Jr., Mayor of Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee, The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. (Note: Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, rejoined the panel for further dialogue with the task force.)