Contributor Bios

• David Butt
  David Butt is Legal Director of the Kids' Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA). He is also a trial and appellate lawyer with a wide-ranging practice. As an Assistant Crown Attorney, he was the first Canadian prosecutor to specialize in Internet child abuse cases, and has since advised, consulted with, and taught prosecutors and police officers across the country.
• Orlena Cain
  Orlena Cain is a media personality. One of her main concerns is the prevention of child abuse. As a child, she was a victim. A former Social Worker, she counseled and helped young offenders, learning disabled, autistic, and special needs children. She currently manages her own online magazine and entertainment company.
• Eliot Callahan
  Eliot Callahan has been a volunteer for three years at Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA), a reintegration program based on Restorative Justice principles to support and hold accountable sex offenders who are returning to the community after incarceration. Currently, he studies Criminology.
• Paul Gillespie
  Paul Gillespie is President and CEO of the Kids' Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA). A former police officer, he built and led the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Police Service Sex Crimes Unit to become widely acknowledged as world leaders in the field of investigation that tracks pedophiles and those who traffic and trade in child pornography.

• Dr. Julian Gojer
  Dr. Julian Gojer is a Forensic Psychiatrist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also on staff at the Toronto Western Hospital and a consultant at the St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre. For more than ten years, he has provided group and individual therapy for those charged with sex offences, and those on probation and parole. He frequently conducts assessments for dangerous and violent offender hearings in Ontario and across the country.
• Dr. R. Karl Hanson
  Dr. R. Karl Hanson is Senior Research Officer at Public Safety Canada and Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Department at Carleton University. A leading researcher in the field of sexual offender risk assessment and treatment, he has published more than 100 articles, including several highly influential reviews, and has developed the most widely used risk assessment tools for sexual offenders.
• Eileen Henderson
  Eileen Henderson is the Restorative Justice Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Ontario. Her primary responsibility for almost eight years has been to manage Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA).
• Karyn Kennedy
  Karyn Kennedy is the Executive Director at BOOST (formerly Toronto Child Abuse Centre), a multi-service agency with a mandate to coordinate a community response to child abuse. She is a trained Art Therapist and has worked in the area of child abuse since 1983.