Dave Kosson, Ph.D., President
Dr. Kosson is a Professor of Psychology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. His research focuses on the cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, and developmental mechanisms underlying psychopathy. He is also a former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. He founded the Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation in 2006 and has served as its first President. He also served as Treasurer until 2011.
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Paul Babiak, Ph.D., Vice President 
Dr. Babiak is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist who coaches and consults with executives on leadership and executive development issues and management concerns. His research focuses on corporate psychopaths, their traits and characteristics, manipulation techniques, and the impact they can have on organizational performance and employee job satisfaction. He is the author of Snakes In Suits, Revised Edition: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office, with Dr. Robert D. Hare, as well as several scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Babiak has been a guest on many radio and television programs, including the Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Kudlow and Cramer-CNBC, Dateline NBC, Fox News Live, CBC, BBC, PRI and interviewed by newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post, Globe and Mail, Times of London, Business 2.0, FastCompany, Harvard Business Review, Fraud Magazine, HR Executive, Science, New Scientist. Documentaries featuring his and Dr. Hare’s work include BBC Horizon, Membrane-UK, Discovery Channel-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Company, and Independent Film-Czech Republic. The New York Times Magazine included his unique contributions to the study of corporate psychopathy in the December 2004 “Year In Ideas” special issue. He speaks internationally about the corporate psychopath at professional conferences and business meetings.
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Megan Moshe, M.A., Co-Treasurer
Megan graduated with a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with a specialization in Victimology from Seattle University. Her research has focused on victim oriented solutions and the public and professional knowledge base of human trafficking. She has been helping the Aftermath Foundation since 2011.
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Kristopher Brazil, Ph.D., Co-Treasurer
Dr. Brazil is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Youth Studies from Brock University in Ontario, Canada. His research has focused on integrating multiple psychological perspectives such as developmental, evolutionary, and relational, to understand psychopathy and the impact it has on relationship health and functioning. He has been a volunteer with Aftermath since 2019, serving on the Newsletter Committee.
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Sandy Michels, M.S., Secretary
Sandy is a professional civil engineer and has worked for a number of years in land development. Most recently she graduated with a post baccalaureate, majoring in psychology and she plans to continue on to graduate school. She understands the needs of survivors and wants to help by disseminating information on the subject of psychopathy
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Robert Hare, Ph.D.
Dr. Hare is the author of Without Conscience, coauthor of Snakes in Suits, and the creator of the standard clinical tool for diagnosing psychopathy, The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. He is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and president of Darkstone Research Group, a forensic research and consulting firm. He has won numerous awards for his research, lectures widely on psychopathy, and consults with law enforcement organizations, including the FBI. In 2010 he was named a member of the Order of Canada.
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Cathy Gates, M.A.
Cathy is a retired Public Health Nurse and is the Director of Thrive Ministries (Niagara), a charity that supports the spiritual vitality of Christian ministry leaders. Cathy is also a survivor whose goal is to increase awareness and knowledge of psychopathy and foster effective recovery strategies for survivors. She joined the Aftermath Foundation as a volunteer in 2011 and has served on the Executive Committee and as Secretary.
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Alan J. Harris, Esq.
Alan Harris is an attorney admitted to practice in New York State. He is a graduate of University of Chicago Law School. His law office is located in Pleasantville, New York. He is also a former certified public accountant in the District of Columbia. He is the Chairperson of the Dobbs Ferry (New York) Board of Ethics and has been appointed as a Guardian Ad Litem by the Westchester County Surrogate. He joined the Aftermath board of directors in 2013.
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Linda Hartoonian, M.S.Ed
Linda is an educator whose areas of expertise include Special Learning and Behavior. She has past criminal justice experience, having worked in the field of law enforcement, as a police officer. Linda is also a survivor whose goal is to empower other survivors through education.
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Jill Ricke, Ph.D.
Dr. Jill Ricke is a licensed Psychologist in Tallahassee, Florida. She is in private practice and specializes in the treatment of victims of violent crime including Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence and Stalking. Her other areas of expertise include Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders. She is on the Board of Directors for the Florida Psychological Association and is a volunteer for the Red Cross Mental Health Disaster Services.
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Mary Ellen O’Toole, Ph.D.
Dr. Mary Ellen O’Toole is the Director of the Forensic Science Program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, one of the most prominent ones in the United States. In that role, she directs a faculty of experts in a wide range of sciences including Forensic Biology (DNA), Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Chemistry, Biometrics – Forensic Facial Reconstruction, Forensic Anthropology, and Crime Scene Behavior. Prior to her university career, Dr. O’Toole served as an FBI Agent for nearly 28 years. For more than half of that time, she worked in the Bureau’s prestigious Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) (featured in the hit TV series Criminal Minds). As one of the senior agents in the BAU, Dr. O’Toole consulted on many of the FBI’s highest profile and most complex criminal cases, including serial homicides and sexual assaults, child abductions, school and campus violence threats, crimes involving predatory behavior and other crimes of violence involving patterned behavior.
As part of her work, Dr. O’Toole specialized in identifying patterns of psychopathic behavior at serial crime scenes that often present significant challenges for investigators and interviewers that do not exist in other cases. These challenges stem from the cluster of traits found in the psychopathic construct which are specifically underscored by the offender’s profound lack of empathy for their behavior, callous treatment of their victims, a cavalier willingness to reoffend and their unparalleled risk taking in their crimes. Dr. O’Toole is the author of Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us (Hudson Street Press, 2012) in which she discusses how to assess people and behavior for violent, dangerous and concerning behaviors. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Violence & Gender published by Mary Ann Liebert Publications. The international focus of this journal is on the critical examination of biological, genetic, behavioral, psychological, racial, ethnic, and cultural factors as they relate to the gender of perpetrators of violence.
