October 2008: Special Focus on Domestic Violence Month & Prelude To The Election

David Garvin, MSW, LMSW is the program director for the Alternatives To Domestic Aggression (ADA). David received his Masters Degree in Social Work from Wayne State University in 1986. That same year he founded the ADA Program in Toledo Ohio. In 1987 he began ADA in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In October 1990 the Eastern Michigan University School of Social Work named David the Distinguished Alumni of the Year.

Tom Schaller is associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and coauthor of Devolution and Black State Legislators. The weekly national political columnist for The Baltimore Sun, Schaller has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, The New York Sun, The Boston Globe, The Washington Examiner and Salon, and has appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, MSNBC's Hardball, National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition, PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show, and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Tom earned his Ph. D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Traci and their black lab, Max