Professors
Angela Gover, Ph.D.
Angela R. Gover is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Gover received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from New Mexico State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Her research interests include policy relevant family violence issues, violence against women, gender and crime, and evaluation research. Some of her published work has appeared in Violence and Victims, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Criminology and Public Policy, Justice Quarterly, and Women & Criminal Justice. Dr. Gover recently completed two funded research projects: “The Impact of Proactive Enforcement of No-Contact Orders on Victim Safety and Repeat Victimization” (funded by the Department of Justice) and “Utilizing Evidence-Based Practices to Implement Differentiated Treatment for Domestic Violence Offenders in Colorado” (funded by the Colorado Department of Public Safety). Her current projects include: “The Effectiveness of Coordinated Outreach in Intimate Partner Violence Cases: A Randomized, Longitudinal Design” (funded by the Department of Justice) and the “Campus Crime and Safety Project” (funded by UCD’s Center for Faculty Development).
Contact:
angela.gover@ucdenver.edu
Phone: 303-315-2474
Lecturers
Janet Mickish, Ph.D.
Janet E. Mickish has been involved in domestic violence prevention and intervention for 25 years. For 8 1/2 years, she was the executive director of the Colorado Domestic Violence Coalition. She has taught domestic violence and criminal justice at University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State University, and other institutions of higher education across the country. She has authored numerous domestic violence works, including training manuals for health care providers and lawyers. She is currently the Manager of Funding Resources for Total Longterm Care in Denver and a consultant with Mickish Consulting.
Contact:
jmickish@aimhigh.net
W: 303-360-3951
Cathy Phelps, MA, MSW
Cathy Phelps is the Executive Director of The Denver Center for Crime Victims (DCCV) in Denver, Colorado. DCCV is a 18-year old nonprofit agency recognized as a national model whose mission is to provide crisis counseling, case management, and advocacy to victims of crime and also crime prevention education. Cathy has been with the agency for 18 years, including 12 years as the Program Director. In June of 2006, the agency was featured in an article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy: “Employee-Wellness Programs Pay Off in Productivity and Morale.” In 2002, the agency received a number of awards, including the Martin Luther King, Jr., Business Social Responsibility Award, the Colorado Parent Magazine Award for Best Companies for Working Families and the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Community Service Award.
Cathy earned her Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Denver and has over 22 years of experience working in crime victims’ programs. In addition, Cathy graduated with her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Denver in June of 2001. Concurrent with her position at The Denver Center for Crime Victims, she has served as part-time faculty for Metropolitan State College of Denver. In addition, she facilitates 32-week clinical support groups for African American survivors of sexual (and domestic) violence for the local rape crisis center. She has a wide array of interests, is a published author and holds memberships on local and national boards
Contact:
cpdenver@earthlink.net
W: 303-860-0660, #230
Terrie Pease
Terri Pease, PhD, is an educator, clinician, and consultant who focuses her work on creating cross-sector clinical and programmatic responses to sexual assault and domestic violence. She has devoted much of her career to addressing trauma and abuse of people with disabilities and in communities of color, and has been especially interested in enabling and broadening collaborations between victim service providers and providers who support people who have mental health, cognitive and learning disabilities. Dr. Pease is an accomplished trainer with more than 15 years of experience crafting and delivering tailored trainings on working with victims of violent crimes who live with trauma and/or mental illness Dr. Pease is a former board member of NCADV and has long-standing ties to the domestic violence movement.
She is the Adult Trauma Specialist at the National Center on Domestic Violence Trauma and Mental Health, and was formerly the Clinical Director of the Mental Retardation Residential and Support Division of ServiceNet, Inc, (a residential program in western Massachusetts serving adults with psychiatric and developmental disabilities) and was Program Director at Safe Horizon’s Partnership to Prevent Domestic Violence (an RWJ-funded project to engage primary care physicians and HMOs in addressing domestic violence). She was a tenured professor in the Division of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University in Illinois.
Her exceptional work to better the safety and health status of battered women was recognized by the Family Violence Prevention Fund with the first Health Care and Domestic Violence Advocate Leadership Award. Dr. Pease was a national consultant for the Zero to Three Early Head Start National Resource Center’s Infant Mental Health program. She was also appointed to the faculty of the National Academy for Equal Justice for Persons with Disabilities at Temple University.
She holds a B.A. in biology from Reed College, a Ph.D. in developmental psychopathology from the Division of Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University. After earning the Ph.D., she went on to post-doctoral study of clinical neuropsychology at the Fielding Institute. Dr. Pease is the author of a forthcoming book from Sidran Institute Press) that will offer self-help skills to trauma survivors who have cognitive or developmental disabilities, and a companion volume for families and staff who are supporting survivors who face these challenges.
Contact:
peaseclasses@gmail.com
W: 312-399-7359
Kathleen Schoen, Esq.
Kathleen Schoen, Esq. graduated from University of Oregon Law School in 1980. She is a member of both the Colorado and Oregon bars, and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association. She has been working in the area of domestic violence intervention and prevention since 1985. Along with a criminal justice coordinator for the battered women’s program and a police officer in Aurora, Colorado, she spearheaded the development and implementation of the first in the nation fast-track prosecution of domestic violence. She is currently the director of the Colorado Bar Association’s Access to Justice and Local Bar Relations Department where she manages several projects, including the Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business Project, designed to create awareness and skills in the business community about the impact of domestic violence on business; Kids & Court, researching and disseminating information to attorneys about how to prevent/decrease trauma to children who are witnesses in court proceedings; Colorado Network to End Financial Exploitation of the Elderly; and Colorado Alliance to Prevent Cruelty, a statewide collaboration of criminal justice and animal welfare professionals cross-training each other about the link between animal abuse and family violence. She also provides support to the Access to Justice Commission, Availability of Legal Services pro bono coordinators, and local bar associations. Kathleen has written, spoken, and taught nationally and internationally on many topics, including of women and violence, mediation and family violence, and the link between animal abuse and family violence. She is the 2003 recipient of the Carolyn Hamil-Henderson Memorial Award from SafeHouse Denver for her inspiration and leadership to end domestic violence.
Contact:
kschoen@cobar.org
W: 303-824-5305
Barbara Morris, MD
Barbara Morris, MD, is a family physician and geriatrician at Wind Crest Medical Center in Littleton, Colorado. She has in-depth experience in caring for victims and survivors of intimate partner violence through her work with Safe Clinic at Women in Crisis in Arvada, Colorado.
Dr. Morris has also had extensive policy and programmatic experience in services for victims and survivors via her board of directors’ role with both The Family Tree and The STOP Violence Against Women Act boards.
Sue Hagedorn, APNP-BC, PhD, WHNP, FPNP
Sue Hagedorn has practiced for over thirty years as a nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse educator and nurse activist. Retired in 2007 from her position as Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing, she continues as Associate Professor Emeritus and as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She has completed the New School’s Certificate in Documentary Media. Dr. Hagedorn has directed and produced a number of documentaries that celebrate nurses and nursing. Her film Miracle Man won several awards, including a New York Emmy nomination. Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Denver
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Barbara Paradiso, MPA
Director, Program and Center on Domestic Violence
Barbara Paradiso is the Director for the Center and Program on Domestic Violence at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver (UCD). Barbara has worked on behalf of battered women and their children for more than twenty two years as an advocate, administrator and activist. Prior to her position at CU, she served as the Director of Domestic Violence Programs for the Sunshine Lady Foundation of North Carolina. For twelve years, from 1985-1997, Barbara was the Executive Director of Boulder County Safehouse. Barbara has been active in the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence as Co-Chair of the organization, Chair of the Legislative, Membership, Queer Advocacy and Finance Committees. She is currently on the Board of Boulder County Advocates for Transitional Housing and is Treasurer of the Board for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Barbara has presented and provided consultation to organizations on a state, local and national level on effective non-profit administration, as well as, topics related to violence against women and children.
Contact:
Barbara.paradiso@ucdenver.edu
W: 303-315-2736
Sam Cole
Director of Community Relations
Sam Cole is the Director of Community Relations for the Center on Domestic Violence. Previously, he managed the Democracy Project at the Gill Foundation in Denver serving 400 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and allied non-profit organizations throughout the country. While at the Gill Foundation, Sam also reviewed grant requests and made grant awards, oversaw the development of a 12 million record voting block of gay-friendly individuals, and trained over 1000 activists in 21 states on movement-building strategies. Sam has also been employed as the Executive Director of the Colorado Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, where he developed a training program on domestic violence prevention for health care professionals. Sam currently serves on the board of Community Shares of Colorado, mentors two children through Denver Kids, Inc. and serves on the Mayor’s GLBT Commission in Denver. He previously served on the boards of SAFE Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, and the Ford Motor Company Dispute Settlement Program.
Contact:
Sam.cole@ucdenver.edu
W: 303-315-2470
Ena Vu
Project Coordinator
Ena Vu recently joined the Center on Domestic Violence as the project coordinator. Ena volunteers on the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking (CoNEHT) hotline. She also assisted in community-based research work such as the Colorado Project to Comprehensively Combat Human Trafficking and Community Needs Assessment. Previously, Ena interned at Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (COVA) as a victim advocate at the Denver City Attorney's office. At the Denver City Attorney's Office, she prepared family and domestic violence cases for pretrial, as well as preparing survivors for pre/post court procedures. Ena is currently a student at the School of Public Affairs for her Masters of Public Administration. She also holds a Masters of Criminal Justice with a concentration of Domestic Violence and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Colorado Denver. While in college, she also volunteered at the Governor's Commission on Community Service doing research work for the needs assessment for funding in target communities in Colorado, as well as assist in coordinating the Colorado State Services conferences for Americorps and Vista Members.
Contact:
E: Ena.Vu@ucdenver.edu
T: 303-315-2319
Lorrie Johnson
Domestic Violence Specialist
Lorrie Johnson has recently moved to Denver from Wichita, Kansas to work on the new END Violence project at the University of Colorado Denver. Lorrie has spent the past 10 years doing community work and collaboration focused on domestic violence and positive self esteem for girls and women. Her previous position as a Violence Prevention Specialist on the Start Strong project was housed out of a domestic violence shelter in Wichita, Kansas. Much of Lorrie's previous work and volunteer responsibilities focused on educating middle and high school teens about healthy relationship skills and empowering students to have respect for themselves and others. Lorrie has obtained an undergraduate degree in Women's Studies and a Maters in Business Administration and she uses her education, activism and passion to demonstrate and motivate positive change for women and children's rights.
E: Lorrie.johnson@ucdenver.edu
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Lisa Ingarfield, Associate Director, The Phoenix Center at Auraria
Phone: (303) 315 - 2058
E-mail: Lisa.Ingarfield@ucdenver.edu
Lisa Ingarfield has worked in higher education for 10 years and specifically with survivors of sexual assault on college campuses for the last five years. Prior to joining the Auraria campus, she volunteered at Colorado State University for their victim assistance team, the Fort Collins Crossroads domestic violence safe house, and most recently worked to develop and implement all aspects of the Gender Violence Education and Support Services Office at the University of Denver. She has completed over 140 hours in victim advocacy training including completing the Colorado Organization of Victim Assistance (COVA) Academy program. She holds an MA degree U.S. History from the University of Sussex, UK, an MS degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University and is pursuing a PhD in Culture and Communication at the University of Denver.