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Jay Weimer, Deputy Branch Chief, Northern District of Texas

Jay Weimer has been an Assistant United States Attorney since 2005. Jay graduated from Yale Law School in 1999 and went to work for a large civil litigation firm in Houston, Texas. In 2005, he took his first job as an AUSA in the Southern District of Georgia. While there, he prosecuted and tried cases involving kidnapping, public corruption, and child abuse. In 2007, he joined the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas where he eventually specialized in national security prosecutions. Jay currently serves as Deputy Branch Chief of the Fort Worth Office and supervises AUSAs prosecuting national security, fraud, cyber-crimes, and child exploitation offenses.

Dr. Phil Arkow, President & Secretary of the National LINK Coalition

Internationally acclaimed lecturer, author and educator Phil Arkow is President & Secretary of the National LINK Coalition – the Global Resource Center on The LINK between Animal Abuse and Human Violence – and edits the monthly LINK-Letter, with over 5,700 subscribers. He chairs the Latham Foundation’s Animal Abuse and Family Violence Prevention Project. He teaches at the University of Florida and Harcum College. He has presented over 400 times in 17 countries, 38 states and 9 Canadian provinces, and has authored over 100 key reference works on human-animal interactions and violence prevention.

He co-founded the National Link Coalition, the National Animal Control Association, and the Colorado and New Jersey humane federations. He has served with the National Sheriffs Association’s National Coalition on Violence Against Animals, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the ASPCA, American Humane, the Delta Society, the Animals & Society Institute, the National District Attorneys Association, the Academy on Violence & Abuse, and the American Association of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from New Jersey Child Assault Prevention and the Heart of Veterinary Social Work Award from the International Association of Veterinary Social Work.

Eduardo Chávez, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Eduardo A. Chávez leads the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Field Division, overseeing all DEA operations in North Texas to include Dallas, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Amarillo, and Tyler, as well as the entire state of Oklahoma, with offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and McAlester. SAC Chávez began his career over 24 years ago, where he spent several years doing extensive undercover work infiltrating Mexican drug trafficking organizations, as well as leading complex conspiracy cases that targeted some of the most prolific methamphetamine and heroin traffickers in the Southwest. Previously, SAC Chávez has held assignments in the Central Valley of California, Mexico City, New Mexico, and DEA Headquarters in Washington DC. SAC Chávez grew up along the Southwest border in New Mexico and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in International Politics from Georgetown University in Washington DC.