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Diane Fleet is currently the Assistant Director of GreenHouse17 (formerly, the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program), a nonprofit advocacy agency in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky committed to ending intimate partner abuse in families and the community. Diane’s focus is working on developing best practices for trauma informed residential programming for victims of domestic violence that centers around a 40-acre working farm. Her first 10 years were spent in the criminal justice system overseeing the Office of Fayette County Sheriff’s Victim Service Division.

Laura Gately is the founder of Professional Advantage Consulting, specializing in executive coaching and leadership consultation. She works with CEOs, executives, leaders, and high potentials in high-tech, research, manufacturing, transportation, service, and healthcare industries. She helps clients with professional growth, integration and transition, personal re-engagement, relationship improvement, derailment recovery, and team enhancement. Laura has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Texas Woman’s University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dana Walton-Macaulay is currently Assistant Dean of Student Life and Director of Conduct and Community Standards at Portland State University. Previously she served as the Assistant Director of Student Conduct at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Dana has more than 20 years of professional experience in higher education including 13 years in Conduct and Residence Life at the University of Kentucky where she was Associate Dean of Students for Student Conduct and Hendrix College, where she was Assistant Director of Residential Life. She holds a J.D. from the William H. Bowen School of Law.

Derek R. Lane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and former Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Communication in the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky. An active researcher, he received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Oklahoma. Derek’s research is in the broad area of face-to-face and mediated message reception and processing to affect attitude and behavior change in instructional, organizational, and health contexts. He is especially interested in developing curricula to prevent power-based personal violence.

Madeline McCarren, PhD, MPH, is a biostatistician in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She earned a BS in Chemistry in 1978, a PhD in pharmacology in 1982, and an MPH in epidemiology in 1992. McCarren has worked with both primary and secondary data. She has designed, conducted, analyzed, and published studies based on both experimental and observational designs. Because of her diverse training and experience, her niche is to provide a bridge between subject matter experts and statisticians and design effective and efficient studies. She can often see opportunities and potential pitfalls that those separate groups miss.