Dr. Eleasa Sokolski, an addiction medicine specialist and psychiatrist at OHSU, provides inpatient addiction consultations and outpatient psychiatry. A lecturer for Oregon's Forensic Evaluator Training Program since 2022, she completed residency at UC Davis and an OHSU fellowship. Her interests include medical education and co-occurring disorder treatment.
Aliza Kaplan, professor at Lewis & Clark Law School and director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic, leads efforts to address systemic issues and mentors future advocates. Co-founder of the Oregon Innocence Project, she is an award-winning educator and advocate against wrongful convictions.
Dr. Ashley Batastini, Associate Professor at Swinburne University, researches intervention strategies for high-risk populations and improving service access in legal contexts. A recipient of early career awards from APA Divisions 18 and 41, she serves on APA’s Advisory Committee for Mental Health Technology and co-chaired the AP-LS Telepsychology Taskforce.
Devon LaBat is a doctoral candidate in Legal Psychology at Florida International University, holds a master's in Psychology from FIU and a bachelor's in Psychology and Criminal Justice from Iowa State. Her research focuses on jury decision-making, interrogations, false confessions, and jurors' evaluations of forensic science expert testimony.
Lee Vargen, a doctoral student in clinical and forensic psychology at Simon Fraser University, specializes in violence risk assessment and management. His clinical and research work spans mental health and criminal justice settings, focusing on psychosis, sexual offending, and extremist violence. He has published extensively on risk assessment tools and their applications.
Daniel Murrie is director of psychology at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy and associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He trains clinicians, supervises trainees, conducts forensic evaluations, and researches forensic assessment, psychopathy, juvenile justice, and bias in forensic evaluations.
