2016 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Police Constable Danielle Bottineau has wanted to be a police officer since childhood. She was influenced and vividly remembers positive interactions with police officers from her smaller hometown community. 

Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-van Furth is an ordained Episcopal Priest and the founding Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.

Boris leads Human Rights Watch’s advocacy efforts on LGBT rights around the world. He meets regularly with victims of homophobia and trans-phobia, and with government officials, members of parliament, and journalists in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe to push for progress on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Randy W. Berry is the U.S. State Department’s first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons. He arrived in his new post on April 13, 2015. Prior to serving as the Special Envoy, he served as the United States Consul General in Amsterdam.

Adrian Jjuuko is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and advocate. He is the Executive Director of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF). HRAPF engages the Police and the Judiciary on LGBTI rights within a largely hostile legal environment.

Aleksandar started his career in law enforcement in 2007 with the Serbian Ministry of Interior as a border police officer.

Allard Feddes is by training a social psychologist with a specialization in the area of conflict and cooperation between social groups.

Brett has been serving the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. (MPDC) for over 2 decades and has been involved in Law Enforcement for 30 years. He is currently assigned to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Academy, where he is overseeing several special projects for the Chief of Police.

Dahni began working with Victoria Police in late 2015, as the Community Portfolio Manager for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) and Seniors Portfolios.

Hetty Nietsch (1958) is a journalist and television director. For twelve years she worked for the Dutch daily morning paper Trouw. 

Jackie’s working life has focused on social justice, community engagement, diversity and education. Since the mid 90’s she specialized in sexuality and gender diversity issues, managing a branch of ACON (formerly AIDS Council of New South Wales) and in 1999 becoming the first NSW Attorney General’s Department Policy Officer, Gay and Lesbian Liaison. In this role Jackie started working closely with the NSW Police Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officer (GLLO) program.

Dr. Kai Jonas (born 1972) is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (and from 01. September 2016 Associate Professor at Maastricht University).

Staff Sergeant Kimberley O’Toole is in her 22nd year of policing with the Toronto Police Service and is currently working as a platoon commander in one of Toronto’s busiest divisions and central lockup facility. She has had a diverse career, working in both a uniform and in an investigative capacity. Some areas of highlight include her work in child abuse, sex and gender based crimes, youth crime, human rights and the Homicide Squad.

Namra Gilani is a human rights lawyer based in Pakistan. She has a background in criminal justice, with experience in cases involving victims of police torture and prisoners under the sentence of death.

Paul Franey is an Irish police sergeant, police trainer and coach with 16 years policing experience. He has worked in response, community policing, human resources and now works in management support. He is a founder of the Garda LGBT network.

Petrik Thomann is a police officer from Zürich, Switzerland. He started his police service in 2004 and was co-founder of PinkCop Switzerland in 2008.

Since 1999 Rik van de Westelaken has worked for the Dutch broadcasting company NOS. He started his television career in 1995 as an editor and reporter for the local Amsterdam television station AT5.

Roddrick Colvin is an associate professor in the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City (CUNY). In addition to his interest in employment equity, he is also interested in organizational behavior in police departments, and lesbian and gay civil rights.

Salman Waheed Malik has a Masters in Social and Political Thought from Warwick University, UK. He began his career as an investigator on the death penalty and extrajudicial rendition cases at a human rights organisation in Pakistan.

Simonetta is a psychologist-psychotherapist and police officer in the Municipal Police of Bologna (Italy). She is the president of the Italian LGBT police and army association “Polis Aperta” and deputy board member of the European LGBT Police Association (EGPA).

Constable Tad Milmine is a police officer with the Calgary Police Service in Alberta, Canada and formerly served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although Tad is now living out his dream, it wasn’t always this way.  Tad grew up in an abusive home where he was confined to a basement for 12 years plus he experienced bullying on a daily basis at school.

Ton van Lierop works as business editor and news coordinator for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT in Brussels, where he previously acted as newsmanager and editor/reporter for the late television news.

W.J. (Willem) Nijkerk started his career with the Public Prosecution Office in 1996. First as a legal policy advisor and since 2002 as a public prosecutor in the city of Utrecht.

Jovan Kojičić is an Assistant Professor in European Law. Prof. Kojičić has an extensive background in in the human rights field, policy and legislative framework, as well as in environmental law and international environmental law.