Data for Good - How Data Escrow and Science Can Help End Rape

(In partnership with Data Business DC (https://www.meetup.com/Data-Business-DC/events/229912203/))

This meetup that will examine how data and data science can help tackle the global pandemic of sexual assault and rape, featuring multiple speakers from the field.

Schedule

We will be changing up the format of our event. Please note that we will be starting earlier than in the past.

6:00 PM - Doors open

6:15 PM - Introductions

6:25 PM - First Speaker

6:50 PM - Intermission and Food

7:10 PM - Second Speaker

Jessica Ladd - Founder & CEO of Sexual Health Innovations

Jess is the Founder & CEO of Sexual Health Innovations (SHI), a nonprofit dedicated to creating tech to advance sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. SHI's main initiative is Callisto, an online trauma-informed sexual assault reporting system.

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Jess has been honored as a TED Fellow, a Fearless Changemaker by the Case Foundation, an Emerging Innovator by Ashoka and American Express, and as the Civic Hacker of the Year by Baltimore Innovation Week. Before founding Sexual Health Innovations, Jess worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, as a Public Policy Associate at The AIDS Institute, and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. Jess also founded The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore and a chapter of FemSex at Pomona College. Jess received her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and her BA in Public Policy/Human Sexuality at Pomona College. She left a PhD program in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in order to pursue work at Sexual Health Innovations full-time.

Amanda Nguyen - President and Founder, Rise

Amanda is the president and founder of Rise, a millennial driven national nonprofit working with multiple state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to implement a Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights. In her capacity for Rise, she has drafted and helped introduce legislation in multiple Statehouses and the United States Congress.

Amanda’s start in public service began at NASA where she worked on the last space shuttle launch, public-private partnerships and the Asteroid Redirect Grand Challenge Mission. She has also worked at the White House in the Office of Public Engagement and the Chief of Staff’s office, at Morgan Stanley in public finance investment banking, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center analyzing the Kepler exoplanet mission. Amanda graduated from Harvard University. During college, Amanda created the first student-written course in Harvard's history and co-founded Wema Children, an orphanage in Kenya.

When she is not fighting for survivor rights, Amanda is also the Deputy White House Liaison at the Department of State and a 2016 TED fellow. She is 24 years old.

NATHAN W. GALBREATH, PH.D., M.F.S.

Dr. Nate Galbreath is the Senior Executive Advisor for the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO). In this position, he is the Department’s Highly Qualified Expert for DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) programs, training initiatives, and research involving applications of behavioral health, forensic science, criminal investigation, and program evaluation. Dr. Galbreath reports directly to the SAPRO Director, who serves as the single point of authority, accountability, and oversight for the SAPR program in the Department of Defense.

Dr. Galbreath was assigned as the first military Deputy Director of the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office from 2007 to 2009. He retired from active duty on October 1, 2009 and worked as a licensed clinical psychologist and forensic science specialist in independent practice in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He was appointed to his current position at SAPRO in May 2012.

He entered the Air Force in 1989 after completing a BA in Spanish and International Affairs at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. He was assigned to Howard Air Force Base, Panama, from 1989 – 1990 as a Special Agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). He went on to serve a total of 11 years with AFOSI as an agent, a forensic science specialist, and a Detachment Commander (Special Agent in Charge) at Air Force base offices in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

Dr. Galbreath was competitively selected by the Air Force to earn a Master of Forensic Science from the George Washington University, Washington, DC (awarded in 1993), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD (awarded in 2004). He has also completed a number of internships and fellowships, including a fellowship in Forensic Medicine at the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, and a clinical psychology residency at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, MD.

Dr. Galbreath’s clinical experience focused on treating and researching sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders. He also evaluated and treated sex offenders with Dr. Fred S. Berlin at the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, which is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, MD. He also served as the Behavioral Health Clinic director at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, where he supervised mental health, family advocacy, and alcohol/drug treatment programs from 2004 to 2007. He is currently a licensed psychologist in the state of Maryland.

Dr. Galbreath maintains close ties to the law enforcement community. He has provided training at national and international conferences hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, and other non-governmental organizations. He serves as a Professorial Lecturer in the Forensic Sciences at the George Washington University, where he created one of the nation’s first graduate level courses on child abuse investigations. He also teaches a graduate course on sexual assault investigations. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at USUHS. Dr. Galbreath has also published a book chapter on child molesters, co-authored a chapter on sexual disorders and the Internet, and co-authored journal articles relating to sex offender recidivism and online sexual problems. He has been a primary author on the Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military since 2007.