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Thank you to First Business Bank for sponsoring ATSA's conversations with Visionary Voices in our field. The folks that help shape the work we do today--how did we get here, and where do they hope we'll go next! On April 4, Franca Cortoni, PhD, CPsych, will join us as our next guest.

Franca Cortoni received her doctorate in clinical and forensic psychology from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 1989, she has worked with and conducted research on female and male sexual offenders. In 2007, after many years with Correctional Services Canada, she moved to the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal where she is Professor of criminological psychology. She is also a Research Fellow at the International Centre of Comparative Criminology. Her research focuses on the factors associated with the development of sexual offending behavior, risk assessment, and treatment of both male and female sexual offenders. She has published extensively on these issues. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Association for the Treatment & Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA). Her latest project focuses on the effectiveness of treatment to reduce sexual offending behavior among men.

Visionary Voices is sponsored by First Business Bank.