Pauletta Red Willow is a dedicated advocate for abused, neglected, trafficked, runaway, and homeless youth. With more than 24 years’ experience as a child advocate, Ms. Red Willow is the founder of the transitional living program at Maggie’s [...]

Pamela Carriveau, PhD is the System Vice President for Academic Programming with the SD Board of Regents.

Daniele Dosch, MSW is a Victim Specialist and Special Agent with the South Dakota Office of Attorney General in the Division of Criminal Investigation.

Lieutenant Paul Stevens currently serves with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, where he is assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division. In addition to oversight of all Criminal Investigations, Lt. Stevens supervises the Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officer Program [...]

Laura Scheibe is the director of the Division of College, Career, and Student Success for the South Dakota Department of Education. In this role she serves as the state’s Director for Career and Technical Education, oversees the Job’s [...]

Toby Russell is the Supervisory Special Assistant Attorney General for the Internet Crimes Against Children and Digital Evidence Unit under the Division of Criminal Investigation. Toby is also the Commander of the statewide Internet Crimes Against Children Task [...]

Tifanie Petro, MS, serves as the Director of Advocacy and Prevention, overseeing the Children’s Home Child Advocacy Center and multiple statewide awareness and education campaigns. In addition to overseeing collaborative investigations of child abuse cases; Tifanie provides forensic [...]

Kathy LaPlante, MSW, is a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, and a master of social welfare degree from the University of California [...]

Teresa R. Nieto, MSW, enrolled Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate has over 22 years of experience in state, tribal, private, and federal child welfare systems.

Tatewin Means is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Oglala Lakota and Inhanktonwan nations in South Dakota. Ms. Means grew up in her Oglala homelands where her father is from. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford [...]