Day 1

Congresswoman Jackie Speier is a fearless fighter for women’s equality, LGBTQ rights, and the disenfranchised who has dedicated her life to eliminating government corruption while working to strengthen America’s national and economic security.

James Killen is a final-year Ph.D. candidate whose research looks at the mental health of human rights defenders whom their government persecutes.

Retired British Army Lieutenant Colonel and the Founding Chairman of Whistleblowers UK. In a 24-year army career, he commanded a parachute squadron and 3rd (UK) Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment on operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and appointments in Counter-Terrorism (Special Projects) and Communications and Surveillance equipment procurement in the Ministry of Defense.

Tom Devine

Is Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director and has worked at the organization since 1979.

Richard Condit

A partner at Mehri & Skalet, and co-chairs the firm’s Whistleblower Rights Practice.

Jason Zuckerman

The National Law Journal describes him as a “leading whistleblower attorney.”

CEO of WhistleblowersUK and Director of Strategy & Policy All-Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing.

She blew the whistle on fraud and abuse of power inside and outside the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority targeting Financial Clients, Investment Advisors, and Law Enforcement.

Medically retired, after 16 years of Active Duty Service in the USN. In 1996, as part of a team, she established the Sexual Assault Prevention Victim Advocate (SAVI) program using the DOD curriculum and tailored it for the special environment with multiple subcommands on board US Naval Station Rota, Spain. Currently a Whistleblower Protection Advocate with Whistleblowers of America founder Jacqueline Garrick; establishing a Workplace Promise Institute in Pensacola, FL aiming to create an Ethical Relationship between Employees and Employers to encourage rightdoing in the workplace.

Clinical social worker, licensed in 5 states, has been practicing in DC Child Welfare since 2005. Christian has touched thousands of investigations and case managed or supervised hundreds of foster children, being noted as an expert in her field.

A founding partner of Cassandra-Helenus Partners, LLC - a leadership development and human communication firm. He is a sweat-equity partner in Somete Technology Group. He is an advisory board member of the Veteran Business Project.

A highly decorated, 25-year veteran Special Agent with the FBI. She served in the most difficult investigatory positions and was the first women named as the head of an FBI resident agency. She led the FBI’s highly successful programs combating crimes against women and child sex crime victims on North Dakota Indian Reservations.

Ted Blickwedel

A Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps is a combat and disabled veteran.

Her year-long trauma experienced at Samsung SA as an unprotected Samsung whistleblower and subsequent dismissal resulted in a self-appointed Ph.D. in Whistleblowing and creating various tangible changes for business implementation for our actual protection, should they dare.

Dr. Tenenbaum was accused of treason after blowing the whistle on the susceptibility of HMMWVs to IEDs and other weapons. Dr. Tenenbaum is still in the government court system after over 24 years of trying to obtain justice.