Michael Boyle currently serves as the first Program Director at the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center, which assists sexual assault victims in need of independent, victim-centered evidence recovery efforts. A thirty year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, Mr. Boyle attained the rank of Lieutenant and served for fourteen years as the commanding officer of the Child Abuse Unit, where he was responsible for administrative oversight of a collaborative investigative process that included child welfare authorities, medical professionals and forensic interviewers working on approximately 1,700 reported cases of child abuse or neglect each year.Michael Boyle
Christine Campbell is the Assistant Vice President, Trauma Services at HCA Gulf Coast Division. Previously, she was the SANE Coordinator at Crozer-Chester Medical Center and a SANE nurse for the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center. She obtained her Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training (SANE) in September 2002. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in forensic medicine. She was formerly the Director of the Clinical Forensic Examiner Program at Abington Memorial Hospital. She has trained nurses throughout Berks, Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties and was a member of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Advisory Committee, Montgomery County Sexual Task Force and the Montgomery County Human Trafficking Task Force. Ms. Campbell provides lectures and ongoing training to various medical providers in the areas of adult and child sexual assault.Christine Campbell
Stacey Ginesin is a clinical psychologist with over twenty years of experience working with sexual offenders in Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia in research, outpatient, and prison settings. She is the clinical director of the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board. She previously served as an SOAB board member for over a decade. Dr. Ginesin was instrumental in the development of the TAP program, an outpatient sex offender treatment program in Philadelphia and served as the program director until 2010. In that capacity she provided treatment, conducted evaluations and risk assessments, and supervised other clinicians. She has worked closely with the court systems in Philadelphia and surrounding counties. Dr. Ginesin has also worked with sexual abuse victims and their families. She earned her BA in psychology from Brown University and received her PhD in psychology from Emory University.Stacey Ginesin
A prosecutor with forty years of experience in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice, Arnold Gordon most recently served as First Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia. He previously served as Deputy of the D.A.’s Trial Division and Chief of the Homicide, Felony Waiver, and Municipal Court Units. As a Special Attorney in the Justice Department’s Organized Crime section, Mr. Gordon played a major role in the investigation and subsequent conviction in one of the most significant racketeering cases in U.S. history. After retiring from the District Attorney’s Office, he was a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is currently retired.Arnold Gordon
Ms. Kivitz is a former prosecutor and former chief of the Child Abuse Unit in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. She has extensive experience in private practice where she has handled a broad range of litigation matters including civil rights, toxic tort, corporate investigations, internal disciplinary proceedings, personal injury, Title IX and employment, and commercial disputes. She specializes in abuse litigation and continues to represent assault victims. Ms. Kivitz was a longtime member of the board of directors of, and serves as pro bono counsel to, the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance, a nonprofit organization which collaborates with law enforcement, child welfare, and medical professionals, and conducts state of the art forensic interviews of child abuse victims. She is a member of the Brandeis Law Society and has served on its executive committee since 2010.Bebe Kivitz
Janet Shaw Lemoine is a former victim advocate and trainer with sixteen years of experience in Philadelphia and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Most recently, she served as the director of the Victim/Witness Training and Networking Project funded through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and administered by the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute. Her responsibilities included training, troubleshooting and networking statewide with system-based victim/witness coordinators as well as community-based agencies. She previously served as director of Northwest Victim Services, the first community-based, comprehensive victim service agency in Philadelphia. Prior to her work with victims, Ms. Lemoine served as a secondary school teacher with the Philadelphia School District. She has a master’s degree from Villanova University and a law degree from the Delaware Law School of Widener University.Janet Shaw Lemoine
Father Stephen Leva serves as pastor of Saint Joseph Church in Downingtown. A native Philadelphian, he grew up in Olney and attended Saint Helena Elementary School and Cardinal Dougherty High School. He attended Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Saint Pius X Seminary in Erlanger, Kentucky and Mount Saint Mary’s College and Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1988 in Arlington, Virginia for the Diocese of Arlington, and served as a priest in that diocese for seventeen years. Father Leva returned home to Philadelphia and was incardinated into the Archdiocese in 2008. His first assignment in the Archdiocese was as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Doylestown.Reverend Stephen Leva
A nationally recognized trainer with more than thirty years of experience in law enforcement, probation and parole, Richmond (Rick) Parsons is Deputy Director of the Carey Group, a consulting agency specializing in criminal justice. His prior experience includes Chief of Carbon County Adult Probation, deputy chief of offender services for the Montgomery County Adult Probation and Parole Department, and co-owner of a company that focused on providing training and services for the management of sex offenders. He has conducted training for local, state and national probation and parole, law enforcement, and treatment agencies on topics such as computer search and seizure, sex offender management, and leadership. He has served on the executive board of the County Chief Adult Probation and Parole Officers Association and is the past chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Probation. He is one of the founders of the mid-Atlantic chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He is currently on the board for the Victim Resource Center in Wilkes Barre and was a recipient of the Matty Muir Leadership Award which recognized his contributions to victims of Montgomery County.Richmond Parsons
Anne Shenberger, MSS, LSW, is strategic director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)/Youth Advocates Inc., after serving as the executive director for eight years. She also maintains a private consulting practice focusing on litigation involving the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Prior to joining CASA, she was the president and CEO of Philadelphia Safe and Sound, a private nonprofit agency charged with administering the City of Philadelphia’s afterschool and youth violence prevention programs. Before Safe and Sound, Ms. Shenberger served for twenty years as the southeast regional director of Pennsylvania’s Office of Children, Youth and Families. In that role, she was responsible for the investigation of allegations of child abuse in foster and adoptive homes, group homes, residential facilities and day care centers. With a master’s degree in social work from Bryn Mawr College, she is a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania. Ms. Shenberger serves on the dean’s advisory board of the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.Anne Shenberger
A former prosecutor, Mr. Spinelli was a founding partner of the law firm of Kelley Jasons McGowan Spinelli Hanna & Reber, with offices in five cities. Mr. Spinelli specialized in representing companies and insurance carriers involved in mass tort litigation. He has extensive experience in overall claims management in hundreds of thousands of claims nationwide and appeared in numerous state and federal courts throughout the country. In addition to organizing and participating in numerous legal seminars on mass tort litigation across the country, Mr. Spinelli has lectured on medico-legal issues at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine and Temple University.Robert N. Spinelli, Chair
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Mr. Toczydlowski clerked for Philadelphia’s President Judge, and then joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he served for over thirty years as a trial prosecutor and supervisor. During that time he was also detailed to the U.S Attorney’s Office as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. Mr. Toczydlowski has served as a consultant to and speaker for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Institute of Justice, and the American Prosecutors Research Institute. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor in criminal justice at the Community College of Philadelphia and Drexel University. He is a retired Colonel (06) of the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate Corps, with more than 30 years of service. He was the founding director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office of Investigations and held that position for seven years.Albert Toczydlowski