2007 Symposium Speakers

Mark Bratman
Program Manager
Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking (ALERT)
P.O. Box 57839
Tucson, AZ 85079
520-790-0779

Strategies for Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking
Mark Bratman is a married father of three who transplanted to Arizona 10 years ago. He has a Masters degree in Psychology and Social Work. He has worked as a drug and alcohol counselor with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and as Phoenix Director of Social Services at the Salvation Army. In 2006 Mark joined the International Rescue Committee as the Social Services Trainer for the Phoenix regional office. Currently he is the Program Manager of ALERT, (Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking) a victim service provider program of the IRC. He coordinates case management and services to potential victims of human trafficking and oversees outreach and training efforts to raise awareness throughout the state.

James Corwin
Chief of Police
Kansas City Police Department
1125 Locust Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64106
816.234.5010
kboehm@kcpd.org

Day Laborers: A Law Enforcement Management Perspective
Chief James D. Corwin was sworn in as Kansas City, Missouri's 42nd police chief on October 26, 2004. Chief Corwin has been with the department since his appointment as a police officer in 1979. Chief Corwin was promoted to Deputy Chief in 1999 and served in the Administration Bureau where he had bureau level oversight of the Training Division, Information Services Division, Human Resources Division, and Operations Support Division. He also served as a deputy chief over the Patrol Bureau, the bureau responsible for command and management for the 24 hours of operation of all police patrol services for the city. Prior to his appointment as deputy chief, he held the rank of major from 1997 to 1999 and commanded the East Patrol Division. As a captain from 1994 to 1997, Chief Corwin held assignments at the Central Patrol Division as an assistant division commander and as the commander of the Budget Preparation and Control Unit. During his assignment as the Budget Unit Commander, he served as an assistant to the city manager of Kansas City, Missouri. Chief Corwin was promoted to sergeant in 1986 and held numerous patrol, investigative, and administrative assignments. As a police officer he was a field-training officer and also worked in the Long Range Planning and Grants Preparation Section. Chief Corwin was a Missouri State Liquor Control Agent before he became a police officer serving there from 1977 to 1979.

Chief Corwin holds a Master of Arts degree from Webster University (1991) in Human Resource Development and a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Missouri State University (1978) in Criminal Justice Administration. Chief Corwin is a graduate of the 192nd Session of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy. Chief Corwin is also a graduate of the Kansas City Missouri Regional Police Academy and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Academy.

Chief Corwin serves on numerous Boards including the Genesis Charter School, Regional Community Policing Institute at Missouri Western State University, Heart of America United Way, Missouri Emergency Response Commission, Brush Creek Community Partners, and the Kansas City Missouri Crime Commission/MCSP.

Amy Farrell
Associate Director
Institute on Race and Justice
3 Denton Terrace
Roslindale, MA 01231
617-373-7439
am.farrell@neu.edu

Responses to Human Trafficking
Dr. Farrell is the Associate Director of the Institute on Race and Justice and a Principle Research Scientist in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Her research on policing has covered such topics as hate crime reporting, police integrity, and racial disparities in traffic enforcement. In addition to her work on police practices, Dr. Farrell's research focuses on the interaction of race and gender in official decision making in the criminal justice system. Dr. Farrell is currently serving as co-principal investigator in a comprehensive study of law enforcement responses to human trafficking in the United States funded by the National Institute of Justice. Dr Farrell completed her doctorate from the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University in May of 2001.

Ed Gallagher
Deputy Criminal Chief
U.S. Attorney's Office
District of Southern Texas
919 Millam Avenue, Suite 1500,
P.O. Box 61129
Houston, TX 77208
713-567-9343
ed.gallagher@usdoj.gov

Immigration and National Security
Ed Gallagher is the Deputy Criminal Chief for the Major Offenders Section at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. He Supervises attorneys assigned to six units including the immigration and human trafficking enforcement unit. He is the Former chief of the organized crime strike force and an AUSA for over 17 years. Mr. Gallagher is also a former police officer and FBI agent. He is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Villanova Law School.

Rob Guerette
Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice
Florida International University, Miami
557 Spinnaker
Weston, FL 33326
954-557-5379
guerette@fiu.edu

Responding to Disorderly Day Laborer Sites
Rob Guerette is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Florida International University, Miami. He is the author of a recent Problem-Oriented Guide for Police entitled Disorder at Day Laborer Sites (U.S. Department of Justice, 2006) and co-editor of Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism (Ashgate Publishing, 2006). His research has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminology & Public Policy (forthcoming), Security Journal, Crime Prevention Studies and European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. He has worked on projects in affiliation with the Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Border Patrol, the National Research Council, United States Department of Justice-Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), and the British Home Office Research Directorate. He holds a doctorate from Rutgers University-Newark and was a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His research interests include situational crime prevention/problem-oriented policing, human smuggling and transnational crime, and public policy related to crime.

Valerie Hink
Legal Supervisor
Southern Arizona Legal Aid (SALA)
64 E. Broadway
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-623-9465
valeriehink@hotmail.com

The Violence Against Women Act: Protection for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence and Other Crimes
Valerie Hink graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1987, and began practicing immigration law in Tucson in 1989. She has been a staff attorney at Southern Arizona Legal Aid (SALA) since 1996, and is currently the legal supervisor of the VAWA immigration unit at SALA. She represents VAWA self-petitioners, U and T visa applicants, and respondents in deportation and removal proceedings. She has given presentations on VAWA and U visas in Arizona, and at the national conference of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women.

Timothy Jefferson
Case Manager
Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking (ALERT)
P.O. Box 57839
Tucson, AZ 85079520-790-0779
timothyj@theirc.org

Strategies for Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking
Tim Jefferson is a native Tucsonan and received his Bachelor's degree in international studies from the University of Arizona. Later he worked for the Center for International Policy, a Washington DC foreign policy think tank. From 2001 to 2004 he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. He received a Masters degree in Peace and Development Studies from the UNESCO International Peace Studies program at Universitat de Jaume I in Castellon, Spain where he focused on human rights and forced migration. Tim returned to Tucson, AZ. to work on the ALERT program for the International Rescue Committee. For the past year and a half Tim has worked as a case manager for victims of trafficking and trained professionals and communities across Southern Arizona on how to identify victims of human trafficking.

Charles Katz
Associate Professor
Interim Director
The Center For Violence Prevention and Community Safety
4701 W. Thunderbird Road
Glendale, AZ 85069
602-543-6618
charles.katz@asu.edu

Crime and Drug Use Among Immigrant Arrestees
Dr. Charles Katz is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University West. He is also serving as the interim director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety. Dr. Katz earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1997. He is the co-author/co-editor of three books The Police in America : An Introduction (5th edition) (McGraw Hill Publishing), Controversies in Criminal Justice (Roxbury Publishing), and On their Own: Policing Gangs in America (Cambridge University Press).

Joe Koehler
Assistant U.S. Attorney
U.S. Attorney's Office
District of Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
602-514-7699
joe.koehler@usdoj.gov

Immigration and the Southwest Border: Effect on Arizona
Joe Koehler has been an AUSA since 1992 and represents the United States in criminal prosecutions and coordinates criminal investigations. His experience includes trials in drug, immigration, violent crime and firearm cases, and he handles a high-volume case load that includes complex alien-smuggling, hostage-taking, money laundering, public corruption and other immigration cases. His prosecution experience includes child pornography, tax, counterfeiting, environmental and other federal cases.

Mr. Koehler has served as editor and has recruited authors for the Office of Legal Education Immigration Law manual (1998, 2000, 2005 ed.). He helped organize and instructed at DOJ immigration prosecution seminars from 1998 to 2006, and provided training to law enforcement agents. Mr. Koehler delivered a presentation on immigration prosecutions at the Ninth Circuit mid-Winter Conference (January 2003 & January 2007).

He maintains a nationwide e-mail group for immigration AUSAs. Previously, he served as a policy liaison for United States Attorneys office during his detail in Washington, D.C. for the office of the Counsel to the Director for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. Presently he is detailed to the Domestic Security Section in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, to assist in the drafting of federal immigration legislation.

Jack McDevitt
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
40 Churchill Hall
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-3482
j.mcdevitt@neu.edu

Human Trafficking: Implications for Immigration Policy
Jack McDevitt is the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies at the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Jack also directs the Institute on Race and Justice and the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research. Jack is the co author of three books. Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Hate Crime Revisited: American War on Those Who Are Different (both with Jack Levin) and Victimology(with Judy Sgarzy). He has also co-authored a number of reports on racial profiling including a monograph for the US Department of Justice and Statewide reports from Rhode Island and Massachusetts on the levels of disparity in traffic enforcement. Jack is co-principal investigator with Dr. Amy Farrell for a national evaluation of the recent Police Integrity Initiative of the U S Department of Justice's Office of Community Orientated Policing Services (COPS). Jack has trained thousands of law enforcement officials over the past 25 years, most recently in conjunction with the New England Regional Community Policing Institute. Over this period he has published numerous articles on a wide variety of topics in criminal justice. He has spoken on hate crime, racial profiling and security both nationally and internationally and has testified as an expert witness before the Judiciary Committees of both US Senate and The US House of Representatives and as invited expert at the White House.

Robert McWhirter
Maricopa County Legal Defender's Office
2730 South Morrow Street
Phoenix, AZ 85282
480-730-1353
rjmcwhirter@yahoo.com

Aliens and the Immigration Law Minefield
Robert McWhirter received his Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University College of Law in 1988. Upon graduation, Mr. McWhirter clerked for then Vice Chief Justice Stanley G. Feldman of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Mr. McWhirter was an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 1989 to 2007 representing Native Americans and other clients in a broad range of Federal cases including homicide, sexual abuse, and bank robbery. Mr. McWhirter developed a specialty in criminal immigration law having published articles in the Georgetown Immigration Law Review, the Criminal Practice Law Report. The American Bar Association published his book The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers, the second edition of which will come out in 2006.

Mr. McWhirter also teaches criminal immigration law and immigration consequences of criminal convictions nationally for the Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorneys with the program sponsored by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts as well as the history of the Fourth Amendment. Mr. McWhirter took a four month leave from the Federal Public Defender's Office in 1998 to be a visiting professor of law at the Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chile. He taught seminars in Spanish on Free Speech, Privacy and the Internet and American Criminal Procedure. Subsequently, Mr. McWhirter traveled to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Columbia where he taught trial practice skills to public defenders and judges. He has consulted with the new public defender office of Chile as part of the judicial reform in that country. Mr. McWhirter has also served as an advisor to the Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly drafting the new Venezuelan Constitution as a grant recipient from the United States State Department. Mr. McWhirter currently works for the Maricopa Country Legal Defender in death penalty trial defense, homicide defense, and other serious felony cases.

Paul Piñon
Coordinator
Human Trafficking Task Force
El Paso Police Department
911 N. Raynor
El Paso, TX 79903
915-564-7198
PinonP@elpasotexas.gov

Challenges to Building a Cohesive Task Force
Paul R. Piñon has been the Coordinator for the Human Trafficking Task Force since September of 2005. During this time, he has worked to strengthen the ties between Law Enforcement officials and the Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) and Social Service Providers who are a part of the task force. A public awareness campaign has been launched through the use of billboards in various parts of the City of El Paso. As of early 2007, over 550 Police Department personnel have received training on Human Trafficking (this represents approximately 48% of sworn personnel). In 2006, the Human Trafficking Task Force was named a semi-finalist (25 total semifinalists) for the Webber Seavey Award (given through the International Association of Chiefs of Police). Mr. Piñon has received an undergraduate degree in History as well as a graduate degree in Organizational Management.

Nancy Rodriguez
Associate Professor
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
4701 W. Thunderbird Road
Glendale, AZ 85069
602-543-6601
nancy.rodriguez@asu.edu

Crime and Drug Use Among Immigrant Arrestees
Nancy Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington State University in 1998. Her research interests include sentencing policies, juvenile court processes, and substance abuse. She also conducts research in the area of restorative justice. Her research has included program evaluations of drug courts, restorative justice programs, and three strikes laws. She has also conducted studies on the role of race/ethnicity and gender in juvenile court processes. Dr. Rodriguez recently completed a study of prosecution and sentencing practices of imprisoned drug offenders pre and post Arizona's mandatory drug treatment law. She is currently working on a statewide analysis of race/ethnicity and gender in Arizona's juvenile court system. Dr. Rodriguez has received several grants from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the co-author of Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-level Drug Charges in California and Arizona and co-editor of Images of Color, Images of Crime: Readings. Her recent work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Criminology & Public Policy.

Kim Rossmo
Research Professor and Director
Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation
Department of Criminal Justice
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
(512) 245-2006
KR13@txstate.edu

Geographic Patterns of Illegal Crossings of the Southern U.S. Border
Kim Rossmo is a Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the Department of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. Dr. Rossmo was formerly a management consultant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Director of Research for the Police Foundation, and the Detective Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department's Geographic Profiling Section. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations, the South Carolina Research Authority Integrated Solutions Group Advisory Board, and the editorial board for the international journal Homicide Studies. Recently, Dr. Rossmo completed projects on the applications of geographic profiling to insurgency problems in Iraq and illegal border crossings in Texas. He is currently conducting research on the geography of terrorism and insurgency. He is also working with biologists in the study of the spatial dynamics of animal foraging, including an analysis of White Shark predation patterns off the coast of South Africa. He is writing a book on criminal investigative failures.

Carlos Velez-Ibanez
Chair and Professor, Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Anthropology
Arizona State University
15078 E. San Blas Court
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
480-965-4908
carlos.velez-ibanez@asu.edu

There are Borders and Then there are Borders: Past and Current Issues of Migration and Immigration
His intellectual interests are broadly comparative and interdisciplinary and span specific interests in migration, economic stratification, political ecology, transnational community and household formation, and applied social science. Dr. Velez-Ibanez concentrates his work on the Southwestern United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. His publications are numerous including five books, three of which are based on original field research and his grants are many from NSF, NEH, and Private Foundations. He is presently conducting transnational field research in two rural valleys in California and New Mexico and their sending communities in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, San Diego (1975). Later he became Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, 1994-2005. Additionally, he was Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside from 1994-1999.

Previously he had been appointed Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984-1994 and Director of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982-1994. Prior to this appointment he was a tenured associate professor at UCLA. His honors include the 2004 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropology Association, and in 2003 the Bronislaw Malinowski Medal presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology in addition to a number of other awards and fellowships including a Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, 1993-94 and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement, 1999.

He is presently Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, Professor of Transborder Chicana/o Studies and Latina/o Studies and Anthropology 2005, Chair of the Department of Transborder Chicano/a and Latina/o Studies at Arizona State University, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of the University of California, Riverside.

James Diego Vigil
Professor of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
2355 SE II
Irvine, CA 92697
949-824-6113
vigil@uci.edu

Immigrant Adaptation, Marginalization, and the Emergence and Expansion of a Street Gang
James Diego Vigil is a Professor of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA and has held various teaching and administrative positions, most recently at Harvard University and UCLA. As an urban/applied anthropologist focusing on Mexican Americans, he has conducted research on ethno-history, education, culture change and acculturation, and adolescent and youth issues, especially street gangs. This work has resulted in such publication as From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican American Culture 2nd Edition (Waveland Press, 1998), Personas Mexicanas: Chicano Highschoolers in a Changing Los Angeles (Ft Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1997), and Barrio Gangs (University of Texas Press, 1988) and articles in journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences, Human Organization, Social Problems, Aztlan, and Ethos. His newest book, A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City (U. Texas, 2002), takes a cross-cultural look at the street gangs of Los Angeles.

Samuel Walker
Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182
402-554-3590
samwalker@unomaha.edu

Police and the New Immigration: Not Like the Old Police-Community Relations Issue
Samuel Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at the University if Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of 13 books on policing, criminal justice policy, and civil liberties. His special focus is on police accountability. In April, 2006 he co-sponsored a conference on Police and the New Immigration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Natalia Walter
Human Trafficking Consultant
Mosaic Family Services
Boston University School of Law, Office of Foreign Programs
765 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 1534
Boston, MA 02215
214-405-3397
walternatalia@yahoo.com

Human Trafficking in the U.S.: Why Immigrant Victims are Slipping Through the Cracks
Natalia Walter is a human trafficking consultant for Mosaic Family Services in Dallas, TX and is a senior lecturer, project manager at Boston University. Natalia is an attorney and trainer who has organized national and local trainings on human trafficking, psychological trauma, and representation of unaccompanied children for Border Patrol, FBI, police, prosecutors and non-profit agencies throughout the U.S. She has represented refugees, children in detention, human trafficking victims and indigent criminal defendants in U.S. immigration and criminal cases since 1996. Her work with unaccompanied children in immigration detention along the U.S. Mexico border led her to coordinate the first bi-national conference “Children on Their Own,” that was held in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in April 2006. She is the author, with Hussein Sadruddin and Dr. Jose Hidalgo, of the Stanford Law and Policy Review article "Human Trafficking in the United States: Expanding Victim Protection Beyond Prosecution Witnesses" (May 2005). Natalia is particularly interested in the cross-sections of law, mental health and language issues. She is fluent in Spanish and French, with a Master's Degree in linguistics and training in inter-cultural communication.