This week we are speaking with Dominique Waltower, motivational speaker and Violence Prevention Advocate. Dom will share his personal story of perpetration of domestic violence as well as his rich history of his work with other men to end their domestic violence.

My name is Dominique Waltower, I am a motivational speaker and Violence Prevention Advocate. I have been speaking/training publicly for over 9 years and I specialize in

presenting in an engaging and thought-provoking manner. I have trained on a variety of topics including Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment, Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse,

Anger Management, Stress Management, The Process of Change, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Change and De-escalation.

I have worked in multiple areas of Human Service Field for over 25 years. I have experience in Child Welfare, Probation, Drug Treatment, Dropout Prevention, Continuing Education and Domestic Violence/ Sexual Assault. I hold a bachelor’s

degree in Sociology/Psychology from CSU Bakersfield.

I am currently a contracted speaker/facilitator with Camp Pendelton Marine Base, UC Davis Continuing Education and A Call to Men.

I have spoken at several conferences and trainings on this and other topics. Please have a look at some of my past events:

1. 2015, 2016,2107, 2018, 2019 San Diego County DV Essentials Training

2. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, CRC 40 Hr. DV Training, Encinitas Ca.

3. 2017, 2019 Keynote Speaker, US Marines MCAS Miramar San Diego Ca.

4. 2018, Keynote Speaker, Indigenous Stop Domestic

Violence Conference, Brisbane, Australia

5. 2018, Keynote Speaker, DV/ SH 32nd Street Naval Base, San Diego Ca.

6. 2018, Keynote Speaker, Southern Indian Health Council, Barona Ca.

7. 2019, DV/SA/SH Training US Marines Camp Pendleton, San Diego, Ca.

8. 2019 Workshop Presenter, Shifting the Lens Conference Los Angeles

9. 2019, Fort Hood Military Police Brigade, Killeen Texas

10. 2019, Keynote Speaker, US Air Force Presenter Scotts Air Force Base,

11. 2019, Trainer, Option House 40 HR DV Training

12. 2019, DV Training, Center Against Sexual Assault of Southwest Riverside County

13. 2020, Keynote Speaker, New Jersey Judicial Council, New Jersey

14. 2020, Shifting the Lens Conference, Keynote Speaker, Virtual

15. 2020, DV/ SH Training Army Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Seattle, WA.

16. 2021, Keynote Speaker, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Annual Conference, Los Angeles, Ca.

17. 2022, Keynote, National Council OF Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Reno NV

18. 2023, Consultant, Gila River Indian Community, Phoenix Arizona

19. 2023, Keynote Speaker, MCAS Miramar, San Diego Ca.

20. 2023, Keynote Speaker, Fresno State Football, Fresno Ca.

21. 2024, IVAT workshop presenter, San Diego Ca.

22. 2024, Keynote Speaker, Fresno State Football, Fresno Ca,

23. 2024, keynote Speaker, Oregon Judicial Conference, Sunriver Oregon

Mentioned during the interview:
Dominique Waltower website: https://www.dwaltower.com/

Will2Change: https://www.will2change.org/

This week we are speaking with Lundy Bancroft. Lundy will share his rich history of his work in the movement to end domestic violence by focusing his writing and work with those who perpetrate the intimate partner abuse.

Lundy Bancroft, Family Issues SpecialistLundy Bancroft has specialized for over thirty years in interventions for abusive men and their children. He is the author of the best-seller Why Does He Do That? the prizewinning professional book The Batterer as Parent, and four other books in the field of abuse and recovery. Lundy is the former Training Director of Emerge, the U.S.’s first batterer intervention program. He has worked with over a thousand abusers directly, and has supervised another thousand cases. He has presented to hundreds of audiences across the U.S. and Canada, and overseas. His latest book is In Custody, a suspense novel that exposes corruption in the family court system.

Family court reforms by Lundy Bancroft: https://www.biscmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Family-court-reforms-by-Lundy-Bancroft.pdf

Lundy Bancroft Books: https://lundybancroft.com/books/

Lundy Bancroft website: https://lundybancroft.com/

This week we are speaking with Paul Bukovec. Paul will share his rich history of his work in the movement to end domestic violence, the development of early intervention programming, and more!

Paul Bukovec, LSW, was the Director of Menergy, a counseling center for men which he founded in 1994. In this capacity he served as chief clinician for a practice that specialized in the treatment of perpetrators of domestic abuse. As head of this treatment program for wife and partner abusers, he was responsible for programming, clinical supervision and the coordination of all direct service, including individual and group evaluation and treatment for offenders, and training and outreach presentations on domestic violence in a wide variety of settings. He served as a consultant and trainer for local and state wide domestic violence agencies and coalitions. To the service community-at-large, Mr. Bukovec served as a case consultant for domestic violence cases involving victims and perpetrators. He spoke at many national and regional professional conferences and was featured as a guest on local television and radio on numerous occasions. He was featured with his program on the ABC-TV news show "20/20," December 1987.

In 1984, Mr. Bukovec became the founder and director of Project RAP for Family Service of Philadelphia, designing the first abuser treatment program in the Philadelphia area. During his ten year tenure, Bukovec organized and chaired The Brown Bag Forum, a monthly professional training series featuring local experts speaking on a variety of subjects relating to family violence, which served hundreds of clinicians locally. In 1988, Mr. Bukovec coordinated and chaired a major two-day national conference: Violence in the Family, hosting over 400 professionals from around the U.S.

An active member of the state-wide Batterers Intervention Network, Mr. Bukovec was a co-author of Standards for Batterers Programs promulgated by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. He also wrote a monograph, Psychotherapy for The Male Batterer published in The Renfrew Perspective.

Mr. Bukovec was a full time assistant professor for four and one-half years in the Child Care Department of Temple University, and a part time instructor for Community College of Philadelphia for several years. He has also been a field supervisor for graduate social work students from Smith College, Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research, the University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny University, Rutgers University, and Temple University. He guest lectured at most of the local colleges and graduate clinical programs.

Paul retired in December of 2013. He now spends his time cooking, writing, camping and hanging out with family.

Crusty Bits of Scrapple: Sketches, Scuffles and Tough Tales from Philly by Paul Bukovec

Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and scholar-activist who has long been a major figure in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equity and prevent gender-based violence. He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America and beyond.

The multiracial, mixed-gender MVP program was the first system-wide prevention initiative in the college and professional sports culture in North America, as well as in all branches of the US military. MVP introduced "bystander" training to the gender violence prevention field; Katz is one of the early architects of this now broadly popular approach.

He is also a journalist and author who has published numerous popular as well as academic articles on a range of cultural and political topics, along with three books, the classic Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, and the award-winning Man Enough: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. His new book is entitled Every Man: Why Violence Against Women Is a Men's Issue, published in February by Penguin Random House UK. The American version is due out in September from Bloomsbury Publishing.

Katz is also a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine, where he writes about masculinities, sex, violence, and politics. He is the creator of numerous educational documentaries, including the classic Tough Guise series, as well as The Man Card: 50 Years of Gender, Power, and the American Presidency, released last fall. He is co-founder of the Young Men Research Project, which explores better ways of engaging young men politically. His TEDx talk -- about violence against women as a men's issue, has been translated into 27 languages and has over 5.5 million views.

Katz is an acclaimed lecturer who has delivered thousands of speeches and conducted leadership trainings in all fifty U.S. states, eight Canadian provinces, and every continent except Antarctica.

Jackson Katz, Ph.D.

Founder & President

MVP Strategies

https://jacksonkatz.substack.com/

https://www.jacksonkatz.com/

https://mvpstrat.com/

For Jackson's talk at TEDxWomen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvSfeCRxe8

JERRY TELLO

Jerry Tello is an internationally recognized authority in family strengthening, therapeutic healing, cross-cultural issues, and motivational speaking. Over the last forty years as a noted therapist, author, performer and program developer, Mr. Tello has incorporated his real life experience, together with research-based knowledge, and indigenous, culturally-based teachings, to engage all in a reality-based healing and growth-inspiring experience. Mr. Tello is the author of children's books, professional publications, culturally-based curricula, motivational CD's and other media. Mr. Tello has received numerous awards including the Ambassador of Peace Award and Presidential Crime Victims Service Award.

Jerry Tello is a father, grandfather, son, brother and relative of many. He is from a family of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan roots, and was raised in the South Central/Compton areas of Los Angeles. Over the last 40 years, he has dedicated himself to the service of individuals, families, communities. He has done so by speaking to over half of a million people, and training thousands of service providers across the nation. Mr. Tello is considered an international expert in the areas of: transformational healing, men and boys of color, racial justice, and community peace and mobilization.

He is co-founder of the National Compadres Network and is currently Director of Training and Capacity Building. He has authored numerous articles, videos, and curricula addressing fatherhood, youth “rites of passage,” culturally-based family strengthening, and healing the healer. He is the author of Recovering Your Sacredness, A Father’s Love, a series of children’s books, coeditor of Family Violence and Men of Color, has served as a principal consultant for Scholastic Books on International Bilingual Literacy curriculum, and has published a series of motivational health and healing CDs. He has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Latina and Lowrider magazines. He is the recipient of numerous awards, which include the 2016 Maria Shriver’s Annual

Advocate for Change award, the 2015 White House Champions of Change award, two California

Governor’s Awards, the Ambassador of Peace Award presented by Rotary International, and the 2012 Presidential Crime Victims Service award, presented by President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno.

Finally, in collaboration with the American G.I. Forum, Mr. Tello was part of an effort providing domestic violence awareness, healing, and support services to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Persian Gulf veterans and their spouses. Presently, he continues to serve families and communities directly at the Sacred Circles Center in Whittier, California and is a member of the Sacred Circles performance group, a group dedicated to community peace and healing. He is the proud father of three children: Marcos, Renee, and Emilio; and grandfather of Amara, Naiya, Greyson, Harrison, Vivienne and Elias.

Maestro Jerro Tello: https://www.jerrytello.com/

JERRY TELLO

Jerry Tello is an internationally recognized authority in family strengthening, therapeutic healing, cross-cultural issues, and motivational speaking. Over the last forty years as a noted therapist, author, performer and program developer, Mr. Tello has incorporated his real life experience, together with research-based knowledge, and indigenous, culturally-based teachings, to engage all in a reality-based healing and growth-inspiring experience. Mr. Tello is the author of children's books, professional publications, culturally-based curricula, motivational CD's and other media. Mr. Tello has received numerous awards including the Ambassador of Peace Award and Presidential Crime Victims Service Award.

Jerry Tello is a father, grandfather, son, brother and relative of many. He is from a family of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan roots, and was raised in the South Central/Compton areas of Los Angeles. Over the last 40 years, he has dedicated himself to the service of individuals, families, communities. He has done so by speaking to over half of a million people, and training thousands of service providers across the nation. Mr. Tello is considered an international expert in the areas of: transformational healing, men and boys of color, racial justice, and community peace and mobilization.

He is co-founder of the National Compadres Network and is currently Director of Training and Capacity Building. He has authored numerous articles, videos, and curricula addressing fatherhood, youth “rites of passage,” culturally-based family strengthening, and healing the healer. He is the author of Recovering Your Sacredness, A Father’s Love, a series of children’s books, coeditor of Family Violence and Men of Color, has served as a principal consultant for Scholastic Books on International Bilingual Literacy curriculum, and has published a series of motivational health and healing CDs. He has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Latina and Lowrider magazines. He is the recipient of numerous awards, which include the 2016 Maria Shriver’s Annual Advocate for Change award, the 2015 White House Champions of Change award, two California Governor’s Awards, the Ambassador of Peace Award presented by Rotary International, and the 2012 Presidential Crime Victims Service award, presented by President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno.

Finally, in collaboration with the American G.I. Forum, Mr. Tello was part of an effort providing domestic violence awareness, healing, and support services to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Persian Gulf veterans and their spouses. Presently, he continues to serve families and communities directly at the Sacred Circles Center in Whittier, California and is a member of the Sacred Circles performance group, a group dedicated to community peace and healing. He is the proud father of three children: Marcos, Renee, and Emilio; and grandfather of Amara, Naiya, Greyson, Harrison, Vivienne and Elias.

Maestro Jerry Tello: ⁠https://www.jerrytello.com/

This week we are speaking with Rhea Almeida. Rhea will share the rich history of her work in the movement to end domestic violence.

Rhea V. Almeida, MS, Ph.D., founder of Institute for family services, is a family therapist, trainer and educator. Creator of a Liberation Based Healing Perspective in family therapy, Dr. Almeida is the author of numerous journal articles and four books: Expansions of Feminist Theory Through Diversity (1994), Transformations in Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives (1998) and co-author of Transformative Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society (2008) & Liberation Based Healing Practices (2018).

She is Founder of the national Liberation Based Healing Conference currently in its 20th year!

In 2005 she received the American Family Therapy Academy Distinguished Award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy. She has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Pure Oxygen, Family Therapy Networker

Dr. Almeida is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She grew up in Uganda and London before coming to the U.S.

https://www.instituteforfamilyservices.com/

This week we are speaking with Eric Mankowski. Eric will share his rich history of his work in the movement to end domestic violence by focusing his research and work with those who perpetrate the intimate partner abuse.

Eric S. Mankowski (he/him), Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. His research, teaching, and consultation practice address gendered forms of violence in its social ecological and structural contexts, with particular focus on the social construction and transformation of masculinity. His recent work with doctoral students examines restorative justice processes in surrogate IPV victim impact panels, and the relationship between masculinity ideology and desire for power in abusive male partners. He developed the Battering Intervention Program Proximal Outcomes survey, which is used to evaluate programs throughout the U.S. and world. As co-chair of the Oregon Department of Justice Batterer Intervention Programs Advisory Committee, he has studied the implementation of legal standards for partner abuse intervention program throughout the United States.

https://www.biscmi.org/the-archives/

https://www.biscmi.org/do-battering-intervention-programs-work/

https://www.doj.state.or.us/crime-victims/advisory-committees-task-forces/batterer-intervention-program-bip-advisory-committee/

https://sites.google.com/view/genderandviolencepdx/home?authuser=0

https://workplacesrespond.org

This week we are speaking with Dan Saunders. Dan will share his rich history of his work in the movement to end domestic violence by focusing his research and work with those who perpetrate the intimate partner abuse.

Daniel G. Saunders

Professor Emeritus of Social Work

Daniel Saunders, professor of social work, established one of the first intervention programs for men who batter and helped to establish crisis and advocacy programs for battered women in the 1970s. His research, teaching, and service center on the problems of dating and domestic violence. His specific studies focus on offender program evaluation, the traumatic effects of victimization, and the response of professionals and the public to dating and domestic violence. His research has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Justice. In addition, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholars grant to conduct research at the Te Awatea Violence Research Centre, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Professor Saunders' most recent projects involve an evaluation of supervised visitation programs for the children of battered women and a survey of child custody evaluators regarding their beliefs about domestic violence. Based on his publication record, a 2019 report listed him in the top 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty. In 2024, the analytics company Elsevier listed him among the world's top 2% of scientists.

Research Interests/Focus

Domestic and dating violence, direct practice, program evaluation.

Curriculum Vitae: https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/faculty/cvs/saunddan_cv.pdf

List of Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=L5uCO3AAAAAJ

This week we are speaking with Dr. Trish Singh is the owner and Clinical Director of A New Awakening in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trish will share her rich history of her work the movement to end domestic violence.

Dr. Trish Singh, Ph.D., LPCC

Dr. Trish Singh is the owner and Clinical Director of A New Awakening in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, she leads comprehensive outpatient treatment programs specializing in mental health and substance abuse recovery. With over twenty years of experience, Dr. Singh has dedicated her career to implementing evidence-based interventions that address the complex needs of individuals and families affected by behavioral health challenges.

A dedicated advocate in the domestic violence intervention field, Dr. Singh has been instrumental in designing and implementing programming aimed at breaking cycles of abuse, supporting offender rehabilitation, and fostering long-term behavioral change. Her expertise in trauma-informed care and court-mandated treatment programs has positioned her as a trusted resource for community partners, including the criminal justice system, social service agencies, and advocacy groups.

At A New Awakening, Dr. Singh continues to expand access to quality behavioral health services, ensuring that individuals receive the support, counseling, and resources needed for lasting recovery and personal growth.

A New Awakening, Inc. https://anewawakening.com/