Jennifer Gentile Long: Director

Christina L. Mathews: Communication and Operations Manager

Jenifer Markowitz: Medical Advisor

Jeffrey P. Greipp: Attorney Advisor

Christopher Mallios: Attorney Advisor

Toolsi G. Meisner: Attorney Advisor

Douglas J. Miles: Attorney Advisor

Sarah A. Wess: Attorney Advisor

Jennifer Gentile Long
Jennifer Gentile Long serves as the Director of AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As Director, she supervises, provides, and participates in training events, resource development, case consultation, and the delivery of technical assistance to prosecutors and allied professionals.

She has worked on issues related to violence against women for more than a decade. For the past five years she has worked with civilian and military prosecutors, as well as other allied professionals, on the prosecution of violence against women and children. In addition to presenting on the topic of violence against women and children, she has authored several articles, a monograph, and a book chapter, and has peer reviewed numerous publications.

Ms. Long is the former Director of the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women (NCPVAW) at the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), the research and technical assistance division of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA). Before her appointment as Director of NCPVAW, she worked as a Senior Attorney at APRI/NDAA.

Prior to joining APRI, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she prosecuted cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault, and child physical and sexual abuse. She volunteered as an advocate at the Women's Resource Center in Hamilton, Bermuda, where she provided legal services to victims of domestic violence. She also served as a child advocate through the Support Center for Child Advocacy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ms. Long graduated from Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Fels School of Government and is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

Christina L. Mathews
Christina L. Mathews currently serves as the Communication and Operations Manager for AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As the Communication and Operations Manager, her major areas of responsibility include business operations, financial management, conference planning, marketing, and programmatic systems development.

Ms Mathews has been working on issues related to prosecution and violence against women since 2002. She has planned, supervised, participated in, and observed numerous training events for prosecutors and allied professionals on criminal justice issues related to violence against women, child abuse, gun violence, illegal drugs, and homeland security.

Her previous experience includes records and database management at the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA); conference planning, grant administration, and project coordination at the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) the research, training and technical assistance division of NDAA; marketing and special events management in the private sector; and administrative coordination at the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).

Ms. Mathews also volunteers with a local rape crisis hotline.

Jenifer Markowitz
Jenifer Markowitz is the Medical Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutor's Resource on Violence Against Women. As Medical Advisor, Dr. Markowitz presents on a variety of forensic-related topics including medical-forensic examinations, strangulation, drug-and alcohol-facilitated sexual assault, and expert witness testimony. She also conducts research; provides expert testimony, case consultation, and technical assistance; and develops training materials, resources, and publications.

In addition to her work with AEquitas, she is the project manager for an OVW-funded project on Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program sustainability for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Dr. Markowitz also continues to maintain a clinical practice with the program she once directed, the DOVE Program, in Akron, Ohio, where she sees sexual assault, domestic violence and elder abuse/neglect patients.

A forensic nurse examiner since 1995, Dr. Markowitz's has presented as an expert and a facilitator for organizations such as the National District Attorneys Association and a several state prosecuting attorney associations, as well as the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps. Her past national activities include working with the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to develop a national protocol and training standards for Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations; with the U.S. Department of Defense to revise the military's Sexual Assault Evidence Collection kit and corresponding documentation forms, and as an Advisory Board member for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. She is the author of multiple publications, including the clinical text, The Color Atlas of Domestic Violence, (Mosby), published in 2003. In 2004, Dr. Markowitz was the recipient of the International Association of Forensic Nurses' Distinguished Fellow award. In 2009, she joined the editorial board of the Sexual Assault Report. She is also the editor of Forensic Health Online, an independent website dedicated to increasing online access to clinical forensic education.

Dr. Markowitz received a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her clinical doctorate in nursing (ND) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado and is board certified as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (Adult/Adolescent).

Jeffrey P. Greipp
Jeffrey P. Greipp is an Attorney Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As an Attorney Advisor, he presents on trial strategy, legal analysis and policy, and ethical issues related to violence against women at the local, state, and national level. He conducts research; develops training materials, resources, and publications; and provides case consultation and technical assistance for prosecutors and allied professionals.

Prior to joining AEquitas he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Milwaukee County from 1999 through 2009, spending the majority of his career in sexual assaults, crimes against children, and domestic violence prosecutions. He also served with the Eastern District of Wisconsin U.S. Attorney's Office prosecuting organized crime and racketeering cases. In 2006 he was appointed to the position of Captain of the Milwaukee County Domestic Violence Division, supervising the divisions' ten prosecutors and three dedicated domestic violence circuit courts.

In addition to his prosecutorial experience, Mr. Greipp served as the Vice President of the Association of State Prosecutors and as an executive board member of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association serving as each Association's legislative spokesperson. Wisconsin's Governor and state legislative leaders appointed him to serve on several legislative council committees where he reviewed Wisconsin's criminal code with other experts, drafting revisions which have since been adopted into law. Mr. Greipp was recognized for his work in revising Wisconsin criminal codes and statutes related to crimes against children, intimidation, sexual assault, and human trafficking; and helping create the Milwaukee Witness Protection Program in 2007.

He has trained with the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), several state prosecuting attorneys associations and law enforcement agencies. He served on the Statewide VAWA Advisory Board, the Homicide Review Commission Executive Board, and he co-chaired the Milwaukee Mayoral Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School teaching advanced courses in trial advocacy and domestic violence.

Mr. Greipp gradated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and Marquette University Law School. He is admitted to practice in the State of Wisconsin and the Eastern and Western Federal Districts.

Christopher Mallios
Christopher Mallios is an Attorney Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As an Attorney Advisor he presents on trial strategy, legal analysis and policy, and ethical issues related to violence against women at the local, state, and national level. He conducts research; develops training materials, resources, and publications; and provides case consultation and technical assistance for prosecutors and allied professionals.

For more than 10 years, Mr. Mallios worked as a trial attorney and supervisor specializing primarily in the prosecution of crimes involving violence against women. As the Chief of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Family Violence & Sexual Assault Unit, he prosecuted and supervised the prosecution of thousands of cases involving domestic violence, sexual assault, and child physical and sexual abuse. Mr. Mallios also served as an advisor for the Philadelphia Police Department's Special Victims Unit and Internal Affairs Division. The District Attorney selected Mr. Mallios to serve as her liaison to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Philadelphia, and as Hate Crimes Coordinator, he was responsible for training prosecutors and victim/witness coordinators and acting as a liaison to law enforcement and other government and private agencies.

During the three years he spent as a prosecutor/lobbyist in the Legislation Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Mr. Mallios drafted and promoted legislation to benefit prosecutors, police, and crime victims in Pennsylvania's General Assembly on behalf of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. Mr. Mallios has testified in many legislative hearings and has presented numerous training programs at Philadelphia's Police Academy and Detective Training Program. He also trained many classes of volunteers at Women Organized Against Rape in Philadelphia.

Mr. Mallios served as a co-chair of the Law Enforcement Subcommittee of the Philadelphia Domestic Violence Task Force, and was an active member of Philadelphia's Sexual Assault Advisory Council, which promoted a coordinated multidisciplinary response for victims of sexual assault. In that role, he helped bring state-of-the-art rape kits and standardized medical record forms for sexual assault treatment in Philadelphia's emergency rooms. Mr. Mallios was also responsible for training more than 300 prosecutors as the director of Continuing Legal Education at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, where he often taught programs on ethics for prosecutors. He has been a frequent presenter for the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute and he teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University.

Mr. Mallios received his B.S. in Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law. He served as a law clerk on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, and is member of the bars of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Toolsi G. Meisner
Toolsi G. Meisner is an Attorney Advisor with AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. Ms. Meisner researches the latest case law and legislation on issues related to domestic and sexual violence prosecutions. She identifies innovative programs, procedures, and strategies employed by prosecutors of violence against women and provides technical assistance and case consultation to prosecutors and allied criminal justice professionals across the country. Ms. Meisner develops materials and provides training for local, state, and national conferences. She also synthesizes research to contribute to articles and legal publications.

Prior to working with AEquitas, Ms. Meisner was a Staff Attorney for the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA) at the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), the research and technical assistance division of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA). She also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was specially assigned to the Municipal Court Unit's Domestic Violence Courtroom handling a large caseload of misdemeanor trials and felony preliminary hearings. She also prosecuted child sexual and physical abuse and neglect cases.

Ms. Meisner obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While in law school, she participated in the Gender and Human Rights Policy Clinic collaborating with the Washington Office on Latin America and Amnesty International to make recommendations to the Mexican Government on methods of providing reparations to the families of murdered and disappeared women in Ciudad Juarez.

Ms. Meisner also volunteered as a companion to survivors of sexual violence with the Orange County Rape Crisis Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and assisted the Center in developing a county-wide multidisciplinary Sexual Assault Response Team (SART).

Ms. Meisner remains an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar.

Douglas J. Miles
Douglas J. Miles is an Attorney Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As an Attorney Advisor, he presents on trial strategy, legal analysis and policy, and ethical issues related to violence against women at the local, state, and national level. He conducts research; develops training materials, resources, and publications; and provides case consultation and technical assistance for prosecutors and allied professionals.

For over 23 years, Mr. Miles worked as a trial attorney specializing in the prosecution of criminal offenses involving violence against women. As a Chief Deputy District Attorney in Colorado Springs, Colorado he managed the County Court Division and the Special Victims Unit. He has argued cases before the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court.

Mr. Miles has developed numerous innovative multidisciplinary programs to better hold domestic violence offenders accountable and enhance victim safety while reducing negative collateral consequences for victims participating in the criminal justice system. He was one of the founding members of the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT), a multidisciplinary response team focused on high-risk domestic violence offenders. The DVERT program became a model of multidisciplinary response throughout the country. He was also the architect of the Domestic violence Fast Track Court in Colorado Springs. The Fast Track Court resulted in numerous domestic violence offenders being ordered into treatment within 48 hours of their offense. To protect victims participating in the criminal justice system, he implemented a Victim Video Link System whereby victims are able to observe and participate in preliminary court proceedings from a remote and safe location. Mr. Miles also created the Domestic Violence Pilot Project, incorporating contextual analysis into the criminal justice system to account for the dynamics of violence and the differences between batterers and victims who use violence.

Mr. Miles has served as a presenter and facilitator for the National District Attorneys Association and several state prosecuting attorney associations. He has also developed curricula and presented for the Colorado Regional Community Policing Institute, the Colorado Ending Violence Against Women Project and the Colorado Springs Police Academy.

Mr. Miles received his B.A. in Education from the University of Arizona and his JD from the University of Colorado and is a member of the Colorado State Bar.

Sarah A. Wess
Sarah A. Wess is an Attorney Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutors' Resource on Violence Against Women. As an Attorney Advisor, Ms. Wess provides training, resource development, case consultation, and technical assistance to prosecutors and allied professionals.

She has ten years experience in the field of criminal prosecution, the majority of which has focused on Violence Against Women. Prior to joining AEquitas, she served as an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Ms. Wess also served as Assistant District Attorney in both Westchester County and Steuben County, New York. As a prosecutor in Westchester County's Special Prosecutions Division, Ms. Wess was assigned to one of New York's first Integrated Domestic Violence Courts and further prosecuted felony sex crimes and child abuse cases. As a prosecutor in Steuben County, Ms. Wess was responsible for the entire domestic violence caseload in the county, served as the coordinator of a multi-disciplinary Domestic Abuse Review Team and assisted in the development of the county's first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program.

In addition to her prosecutorial experience, Ms. Wess worked as a Senior Attorney for the DNA Forensics Program at the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), the research, training and technical assistance division of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), where she provided training and technical assistance to prosecutors on the legal application of forensic DNA evidence. Ms. Wess has served as faculty for NDAA's DNA Forensic Program, the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA) and the National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women (NCPVAW).

Ms. Wess earned her JD from Albany Law School and her BA from Saint Bonaventure University.

She is a member of both the District of Columbia and New York State Bar.