A native Missourian, General Coffman graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia and then Georgia State University Law School in Atlanta. Before moving to Colorado, AG Coffman’s legal career began more than 25 years ago in the Georgia Attorney General’s Office as a courtroom attorney. She then had the opportunity to work for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, where she acted as the primary liaison with the victims and their families following the 1996 domestic terror attack in Olympic Park. General Coffman moved to the State Capitol in 2004, where she had the honor of serving as Chief Counsel to Colorado Governor Bill Owens. General Coffman began her tenure at the Colorado Department of Law in March of 2005 when she was appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General. She proudly served in this role for 10 years, acting as chief of staff and chief operating officer for the largest law firm in the State of Colorado. After moving to Colorado, AG Coffman worked in Colorado state government for years. She worked for the Colorado General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Council with the Senate Judiciary Committee and then joined the senior management team at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman serves as the State’s 38th Attorney General. Since being elected in November of 2014, General Coffman has focused on community outreach, consumer protection, drug enforcement and protecting Colorado’s sovereignty. In 2016, Roll Call named AG Coffman one of the Most Influential Women in State Politics. In 2017 Law Week Colorado named AG Coffman one of the Top Women Attorneys.

Frank DeAngelis was a staff member at Columbine High School in the Jeffco School District in Littleton Colorado, from 1979 – 2014. He has also been called upon to speak about recovery after a school tragedy at a variety of conferences, and has assisted as a consultant after a number of other violent school events. He retired in June of 2014 after 35 years at Columbine High School. He is presently serving as a consultant for safety and emergency management for the Jeffco School District in Colorado, and continues to deliver speeches in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Steve came to the came to the Denver District Attorney’s Office in 1983, after seven and one-half years in the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado and in all served forty-four years in public service. Steve currently serves as a Senior Consultant to the US Department of Justice Environmental and Natural Resources Division and the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to build the infrastructure that addresses the rights and services for victims of environmental crime across the United States. Steve is now the Director Emeritus, Special Programs Unit, Denver District Attorney’s Office. This included administration of the Denver Victim Assistance Law and Enforcement Board. The creation and/or supervision of cutting edge Criminal Justice Programs is an integral part of Steve’s work. These programs include the Witness Protection Program (a national model of innovation by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys), Denver Anti Trafficking Alliance(DATA), Cold Case DNA Project, Justice Review Project (Post Convictio DNA Innocence Review), Victim Services Network (VSN), Juvenile and Young Adult Diversion Program, Domestic Violence Fast Track Program, Community Advocacy Program and the Rose Andom Family Justice Center, Elder Abuse Forensic Collaborative, Communities Against Senior Exploitation (CASE), the Drug Endangered Children Collaborative, and Courtrooms to Classrooms.

The Denver Victim Services 2000 Project (or VSN) is designated by the U.S. Department of Justice as the single urban site in the United States for a demonstration model of a victim services collaboration.

Steve is the past Chair and current member of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Victims of Crime. He was appointed by the Governor as a founding member of the Colorado Criminal Justice Commission.. Over the course of his forty-four year career he has been a catalyst for the development of interagency protocols that have been replicated nationwide on Witness Protection, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, and Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled. Steve served as one of the crisis team leaders in the response to the Columbine High School tragedy. His responsibilities included oversight of the crisis response, liaison between the jurisdiction and the United States Department of Justice, and consultant to the School Board and Administration. He continued his support of the services to the Columbine community by serving on the Executive Committee of the Mile High United Way/McCormick Tribune, “Healing Fund Foundation.” This resulted in his consultation work with various affected communities in the aftermath of mas tragedies such as; the Colorado Platte Canyon High School tragedy and the shootings at Virginia Tech University. Steve served as an advisor to the United Way of Connecticut and as faculty at the Symposium for Recovery for the Sandy Hook/Newtown communities. Steve was honored to be a member of the Executive Committee that created the Aurora Strong Resiliency Center in response to the Aurora Colorado Theater Shootings in 2012. He has served as a senior advisor to the US Department of Justice and Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance in response to the Boston Marathon Bombing. Steve is currently an Executive Board Member of the Colorado Healing Fund that centralizes fund collection and distribution in the aftermath of mass tragedies.

Steve had the honor of supervising the Colorado Oklahoma Resource Council (CORC) which served the victims of the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing who were in Denver for the McVeigh/Nichols trials. After September 11, 2001 Steve served in an advisory capacity to the United States Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime for the development of programs to serve the victims in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. He served on the Executive Planning Group for a Department of Justice Symposium on Response to Terrorism and is the Team Leader for the Technical Assistance to Community Leadership in the Aftermath of Mass Tragedy.

He co-chaired the committee that led to the passage of the Colorado Constitutional Amendment for Crime Victims Rights. Steve is a past President, current Executive Board Membe and Co-Chairperson of the Legislative Committee of the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Victims Constitutional Amendment Network. He was appointed by the Chief of the Supreme Court to Chair the Commission on the Treatment Standards for Domestic Violence and served on the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board.

Steve served on the US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime National Consortium Board, and Bureau of Justice Assistance Global Justice Information Technology Task Force. Steve is involved in the development of policies and programs that serve the citizens of Denver and Colorado ranging from the nurturing of our youngest children to the special care needed by our senior citizens. He serves as an advisor and consultant on policy development, boards of directors, fund raising, dispute resolution and inter-agency cooperation. Steve served as adjunct faculty to the University of Colorado Graduate School of Public Affairs for six years. He currently is on the Advisory Board to the Fels Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve was a founding member and co-chair of the Denver Domestic Violence Consortium and the Sexual Assault Interagency Council. He co-chaired the First National Symposium on Non-Stranger Sex Assaults. He was one of the primary authors of the City’s Inter-agency protocols on Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence, Sexual assault, Child Sex Abuse, Victimization of the Elderly and victimization of the Disabled. Steve was a founding member of the Mile High United Way Family Violence Prevention Initiative (Find the Good.org). He also served on The Colorado Department of Health Sex Assault Prevention Advisory Council.

Steve is proud to be a member of the Board of Directors of Unified Solutions Tribal Community Group. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Criminal Justice Association. Steve has served on numerous boards in the past including thirteen years on the Colorado Violence Against Women Act Board. He was the President of the Colorado Health Sciences Center Addiction Research and Treatment Services Foundation from 1983-1996. He served on the Mile High United Way Funds Distributions committee, the Board of Directors of First Night Colorado, the Board of Kops ‘n Kidsand the State Ad visory Council on Child Abuse, the Mental Health Association Committee for Children, the Rocky Mountain Poison Center, Nurses of Colorado Advisory Council, the Colorado Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force, and Colorado Contemporary Dance. Steve served for nine years as a Trustee of the St. Anne’s School in Denver and is a Past-President of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Children’s Chorale. Steve is a Past President and Life Member of the Board of the Kavod Senior Housing.

Steve has been a consultant and trainer for the US Office for Victims of Crime and for the US Bureau of Justice Assistance (Violence Reduction network), US Department of Education, National Organization for Victim Assistance, National Center for Victims of Crime, National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards, National Victim Assistance Academy, Aequitas, the Association of Prosecuting Attorney’s, and the National College of District Attorneys. He has spoken and been published both nationally and internationally on the subject of family violence, criminal victimization, community intervention, Witness Protection and non-profit development and management.

Steve has been the recipient of numerous honors. In April 2006 he was presented the National Crime Victim Services Award by the Attorney General of the United States. In fall of 2021, Steve was awarded a Special Award for Achievement in support of the establishment of the Rose Andom Center for Victims of Domestic Violence. In 2019 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Public Safety by the City and County of Denver. In 2007 he was awarded the Carolyn Hamil-Henderson Award by Denver SafeHouse for career contributions to issues concerning Domestic Violence.

Other awards include: 2012 National Crime Victims’ Law Institute Partnership Award (Denver DA’s Office Team); 2012 L’dor V’Dor Lifetime Contribution Award, Allied Jewish Senior Housing; 2012 Latina Safehouse Denver Services Award; 2008 Mothers Against Drunk Driving Award of Excellence; 1988 Project Pave, Person of the Year; 1989 National Organization for Victim Assistance, Volunteer of the year; 1990 Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, Outstanding Contribution to Victim Assistance Movement; 1990 Denver Police Department, special Contribution to the Department; 1996 Rape Assistance and Awareness Program, Community Service Award; 1997 Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, Exemplary Leadership Award; 1997 Norman S. Early, Jr. Award, Outstanding contribution to Victim Services; 1997 Addiction Research and Treatment Services University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Special Services Award; 1997 Project Safeguard, Advocate of the Year; 1998 Special Presidential Award for Services, Oklahoma Bombing Victims, 2003 Special Achievement Award Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

The foundation of Steve’s life is his family. Steve has been married for 48 years(but who is counting) to Anna G. Siegel and they have a daughter Erin who completed her Master of Education at Trinity University, along with a certificate in interior design, and a daughter Cassie, who graduated from the Frost School of Music, University of Miami and is a blossoming executive in the music industry. The Siegel’s are proud of our male additions to the family, husbands Scott and Lucas. Anna and Steve are known to spoil their family pets over the years, but lately the world centers around Quinn Eloise Peikin and Charlotte “Coco” Pearl Peikin, and latest treasure from Cassie and Lucas, girl granddaughter Ainsley born Thanksgiving 2022……our grandchildren.

His positive addictions include golf, cooking, music, and travel. He still is not biologically attached to his iPhone despite evidence to the contrary.

Kevin Engoian is a senior manager in KPMG’s Denver office, where he has provided assurance services to public and private company clients since graduating from the University of Notre Dame. With deep knowledge of finance and accounting, Kevin has also shown a passion for the development of others holding various coaching and mentoring roles in his career in public accounting.

Alyssa Carrier is a sought-after management consultant, entrepreneur and civic leader who serves as a strategic advisor and counselor to leaders at state and federal level organizations. She is frequently called on to lead projects and assemble teams to provide program expertise and compassionate guidance before, during and after a disaster. She is a 2018 graduate of Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Prior to founding AC Disaster Consulting, Alyssa served with FEMA Region VIII during Hurricane Sandy, where she led a recovery team. She also served with FEMA Region VI during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, where she worked in a variety of areas including grant management, mitigation, public assistance, damage assessments, training, and exercises. Alyssa holds more than 17 certifications and has provided hundreds of trainings to states, local governments, attorneys, and emergency managers in more than a dozen states. Her work performance extends across many states and territories, including Colorado, Florida, Oregon, North Dakota, New York, Louisiana, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Texas.

José Esquibel serves as the Associate Director of the Colorado Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. From 2015 until 2019, José served as the Director of the Office of Community Engagement in the Colorado Office of the Attorney General by appointment of Attorney General Cynthia Coffman. In that capacity, he co-led the effort to design and establish the Colorado Healing Fund as a non-profit organization. José is a former board member of the Safe2Tell program, a program developed in the years following the Columbine High School shooting that takes tips from students and adults concerned about their safety and the safety of others. In 2014, Safe2Tell became a program of the Colorado Office of the Attorney General and José helped oversee the program while director of the Office of Community Engagement.

Sarah Goodrum is a Research Professor in Violence Prevention with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly, she served as an A.M. and Jo Winchester Distinguished Professor and Department Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Northern Colorado and as Associate Professor and Department Chair in Anthropology and Sociology at Centre College. Dr. Goodrum’s research focuses on school violence prevention, homicide victimization, domestic violence, and the criminal justice system. Her co-authored Report on the Arapahoe High School Shooting, funded by The Denver Foundation, examined the lessons learned on violence prevention in schools. These lessons have been used to improve the violence prevention strategies for threat assessment, information sharing, and leadership in school settings. Recently, Dr. Goodrum extended this work on violence prevention to co-author the Colorado School Safety Guide for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office and serve as co-PI on an evaluation of the training for the Colorado Threat Assessment and Management Protocol in partnership with the Colorado School Safety Resource Center. She is currently the co-PI and consultant on several violence prevention projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

Goodrum’s publications have appeared in the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Symbolic Interaction, Sociological Spectrum, Sociological Focus, Criminal Justice Review, and International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory & Practice. Her book After Homicide: Victims’ Families in the Criminal Justice System chronicles the experiences of families of murder victims from death notification to the trial, is available through Lynne Rienner Publishers (2019).

Kelly Kissell is the Chair of the Colorado Healing Fund Advisory Committee.

Leslie is an accomplished communications and public affairs professional at the local, state and national level with significant expertise in planning, development and execution of strategic communications, policy, and community outreach programs that deliver exceptional, proven results. Leslie is a recognized leader and advocate with an in-depth understanding and perspective on the art of integrating complex policy conversations across multiple, diverse audiences and channels to affect how people consume information when and where it’s relevant for them, in order to build support and awareness for initiatives. Leslie is a collaborative team leader with solid project management and internal/external communications and relationship building expertise, as well as sound strategic planning capabilities. Her specialities include national, state and local public relations; external communications and media relations (including crisis communications); public policy expertise; community outreach; and civic engagement.

Jackie is a strategic communications professional who works collaboratively with clients in developing a strategic approach to capitalize on public relations opportunities and mitigate issues. Prioritizing these opportunities, programs, or issues, she focuses on achieving the communication objectives and delivering the greatest impact. Specializing in health care, higher education, and nonprofit sectors, Jackie has a breadth of experience navigating critical situations, minimizing negative impact and cultivating relationships that provide long term engagement and benefits. 

Bryan Krause is an education visionary who has long understood the relationship between strong school safety programs and high-quality education. He holds a master’s degree in educational leadership and has been leading crisis mental health response and recovery efforts for school tragedies for the past 19 years.

As a principal of a high school that suffered a school shooting, he understands the life changing impact that happens when violence comes to school. A former teacher, coach, and Area Assistant Superintendent, Bryan’s passion for K-12 education always shines through. He provides hope to those who have experienced heartbreak by helping students, staff, and leaders through the most difficult of times.

Bryan has responded to six school shootings in his career, provided the crisis mental health leadership following a student suicide by fire on campus, and led the mental health response for elementary students and staff following the kidnapping and homicide of a student. He has responded to hundreds of small and large crisis events that require mental health support, and each time, he does it with grace and kindness that allows students and educators the best opportunity for recovery.

Today, Bryan is a Senior National School Safety Strategist for CDW Education. He works with school districts across the U.S. in the implementation of strategic technology initiatives bringing 21st century school safety to 21st century learners.

Lori Poland is a thought leader and innovator. Lori has led advocates internationally in working toward improving lives for survivors and families impacted by harm. Lori has spent 21 years working in non-profits, 30 years as a motivational speaker, is a book author, and has led and run numerous businesses. Lori is an advocate for the voiceless and uses compassion and authenticity to help heal whenever she can. Lori knows the value of honesty, humanism, and personal reflection, keeping these at the forefront of her life driving toward lasting impact everywhere she turns.