Amy J. L. Baker is director of research at the Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child protection at the New York Foundling Hospital and the author of Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind, which was featured in the New York Times. She is the author or coauthor of more than fifty peer-reviewed publications and has a Web site, www.amyjlbaker.com.Benjamin J. Charvat is a senior program manager at the New York City Department of Education and adjunct assistant professor at the NYU School of Social Work. For more than a decade, he has taught research methods, program evaluation, and advanced social policy in children and families.
Brian Ludmer, BComm, LLB , is an attorney whose practice is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (1982) and Bachelor of Law (1985) from the University of Toronto. Ludmer has practiced corporate and securities law for twenty-seven years and in parallel he conducts a family law practice focused on situations involving custody disputes, child estrangement, and parental alienation, as well as high net worth divorce litigation and business valuation.