Catherine S. Connell is a state licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms Connell is currently employed with the FBI as the Victim Services Division, Unit Chief for Child Victim Services Unit and is also a Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer. Ms Connell manages the FBIs Child/Adolescent Forensic interviewing program.  She provides interviews, consultation and training for FBI Agents, Assistant United States Attorney’s, and other federal, state and international law enforcement.   Ms Connell has been qualified as an expert witness on multiple subjects in civil and criminal cases, in Federal and local jurisdictions. Ms Connell has coauthored and published Interviewing Compliant Adolescent Victims, A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Incorporating Child Pornography Images in the Forensic Interview and Working Together: Building and Sustaining a Multijurisdictional Response to Missing or Murdered Indigenous Children and Adolescents. 

Heather Provencher, LCSW, is Senior Manager for Federal Partnerships at National Children’s Alliance (NCA). Prior to joining NCA, she worked in foster care and child protective services and held investigative, forensic interviewing, advocacy, and prevention education roles at Children's Advocacy Centers in Maryland and California.