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National Center on Sexual Exploitation

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE or NCSE) is an American anti-pornography organization.

Background

Founded in 1962 as Morality in Media (MIM), NCOSE opposes pornography by highlighting the links to sex trafficking, violence against women, child abuse, and addiction.

Staff

  • Patrick A. Trueman: CEO & President
  • Dawn Hawkins: Senior Vice President & Executive Director
  • Benjamin W. Bull: Vice President & General Counsel
  • Lisa L. Thompson: Vice President of Policy and Research
  • Haley Halverson: Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach
  • Madison Darling: Director of Operations
  • Eleanor Kennelly Gaetan: Senior Advisor for Public Policy
  • Dani Pinter: Legal Counsel for NCOSE Law Center
  • Jake Roberson: Creative Director and Public Relations Manager

Board

CEO & President

  • Patrick A. Trueman
  • Former Chief, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section U.S. Department of Justice

Board Chair

  • Ron DeHaas
  • President and Co-founder, Covenant Eyes

Board Chair (Emeritus)

  • Robert L. Cahill, Jr.
  • Former Managing Partner, Conklin Cahill & Co.

Board Secretary

  • Rhonda Graff
  • Former Aerospace Program Manager/Industrial Engineer

Board Treasurer

  • Ken Sukhia
  • Partner, Sukhia Law Group

Members

  • Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College; Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding
  • Beth Coons, Chair, Farnsworth Companies
  • Jay Dennis, President Join One Million Men
  • John D. Foubert, Dean, College of Education, Union University
  • Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
  • Donald L. Hilton, Neurosurgeon
  • Donna M. Hughes, Professor, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair The University of Rhode Island
  • Mary Anne Layden, Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Bishop Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, Retired
  • Dan O’Bryant, JD Former Fellow in Residence, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University, Former Faculty United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Margaret Rucks, Managing Director Rucks Family Foundation
  • Olga Samaniego, National Regent, Catholic Daughters of the Americas
  • Linnea W. Smith, Retired Psychiatrist
  • Melea Stephens, Marriage and Family Therapist

Resources

NCOSE (endsexualexploitation.org)

  • moralityinmedia.org [archive]
  • ncose.com [archive]

Facebook (facebook.com)

  • facebook.com/PornHarms

US Library of Congress (loc.gov)

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0008400/