Allison Moder is a survivor of domestic violence and adjunct professor in Practical Theology at Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles and Ph.D. student at Claremont School of Theology, where she researches in the fields of theology, neuroscience, psychology, and women’s studies to create resources for women to heal from relationship abuse.

Jenevieve Mannell is an Associate Professor in the University College London’s Institute for Global Health, specializing in the prevention of violence among women in places like Afghanistan, India, Peru, Samoa, and South Africa.

Hannah Hollander is a domestic violence advocate and Founder of Speak Your Truth Today – a Global Facebook Support Group for Domestic Violence Survivors with over 18,000 members.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence helps people better understand, respond to, and prevent domestic violence. They have developed a number of key initiatives to facilitate a deeper focus on a particular issue or population, including  VAWnet, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project, and Community Based Participatory Research toolkit.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence is a social change organization dedicated to creating a social, political, and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists. Deborah J. Vagins serves as President & CEO. E-mail contact through website form.

The Disaster Relief for Indigenous Communities Grant Program supports the recovery and revitalization of Indigenous peoples and communities throughout the North Valley region of California impacted by disaster.

Fred Krüger is full professor of geography at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany. His research and teaching interests focus on development geography and on urban studies, including linkages between culture(s) and risk, with a focus on vulnerability, livelihood security, and disaster prevention and preparedness.

Peter J. Thuesen is professor of religious studies and adjunct professor of American studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation and director of humanities research in the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. He is the author of Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather.