David Altschuler, Ph.D.
David Altschuler is principal research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. He serves as adjunct associate professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also co-directs the Juvenile Reintegration and Aftercare Center at Johns Hopkins and is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. His work focuses on juvenile crime and justice system sanctioning, juvenile offender reentry, privatization in juvenile corrections, and drug involvement and crime among inner-city youth.

Elleen Deck, M.Ed.
Elleen Deck is the former deputy director for Reclaiming Futures. She has worked for more than 30 years with teens as a teacher, special education administrator and consultant for a number of national initiatives. She was a project director with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Mental Health Services Program for Youth and later served as a consultant for the federal Center for Mental Health Services Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program as well as a federal interagency effort called Safe Schools/Healthy Students.

Charlotte Goodluck, Ph.D.
Charlotte Goodluck is a professor of social work at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, and is a member of the Navajo Nation. Her research focuses on Native American children's well-being indicators and the identification of Native American strengths. Charlotte has been invited to represent North America this coming summer at a roundtable in Toronto, Canada, for a United Nations study on violence against children.

Emmitt Hayes Jr.
Emmitt Hayes Jr. is director of the Substance Abuse Services Division for the Travis County (Texas) Juvenile Probation Department. He has been involved with developing, implementing and managing human service projects for more than 27 years. For the past 10 years, Emmitt has served as a diversity consultant for corporations, state governments, local and community based service providers, and colleges and universities. As a mental health and chemical dependency counselor for several years, he worked with adult and juvenile offenders.

Timothy Turley, MPA
Timothy Turley has worked the past five years for Denver public schools managing a program for suspended middle school students. He also provides training to Denver schools on restorative justice models as an alternative to the more traditional disciplinary actions of suspension and expulsion. He previously served as chief probation officer for the Denver Juvenile Probation Department. Tim is involved in numerous community boards of directors for youth service agencies as well as serving as a consultant on juvenile justice and restorative justice issues.