Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman holds the distinguished chair in psychology within the University of California Davis and is the Director of its Center for Public Policy Research. She is widely credited with initiating the contemporary scientific study of children's witness memory as well as child victim witnesses within legal situations. Professor Goodman is the author of many publications and many grants to her name, is also the recipient of a variety of international and national awards. She works with a variety of governments and agencies across the world regarding policies as well as the study of child abuse in the justice system. She is a consultant at the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center and was previously the Multidisciplinary Interview Center of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is a member of many professional organizations including those of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 56). Professor Goodman is also a part of the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (Founding member) International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has been president of The American Psychological Association's Developmental Division and three Divisions of Child and Family Policy and Practice Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Developmental Psychology.