Speakers

Erin Holmes is the Director of Traffic Safety at the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility where she manages Responsibility.org’s traffic safety portfolio and partnerships, and is involved in the development of traffic safety and criminal justice policy. In this role, Erin endeavors to translate research into practice and provide thought leadership on impaired driving issues.

Prior to joining Responsibility.org in September of 2014, Erin was a Research Scientist at the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) in Ottawa, Canada. During her tenure at TIRF, Erin published more than 40 reports and articles and delivered in excess of 50 presentations internationally on impaired driving, criminal justice system improvements, alcohol monitoring technologies, remedial programs, risk assessment, and drug policy. She also conducted process evaluations, developed online curricula, education programs, and primers. Erin was involved in TIRF’s international symposia series on interlocks and served as the co-coordinator of the Working Group on DWI System Improvements, a U.S. criminal justice coalition on impaired driving. In addition, she provided NHTSA-funded training and technical assistance to more than 20 states to improve the delivery of interlock programs across the United States. She has extensive professional experience working with practitioners and offender populations including nearly a decade of volunteer experience within the Canadian criminal justice and correctional systems.

Erin graduated summa cum laude and has an Honors and Master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Ottawa. She is a Junior Fellow at the Drug Policy Institute in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida and routinely serves as faculty for the National Judicial College on traffic safety issues.

Terry is a professional consultant on police and sheriff department policy, specializing in use of force, body cameras, and Fourth Amendment issues. 

Terry is a former Deputy City Attorney for Boise, Idaho.  In that role, he spent 10 years providing legal advice to the Boise Police and Fire Departments and the Boise City Clerk.  Additionally, Terry served as the Meridian Police Liaison from 2008 to 2016 and the Eagle City Police Liaison from 2014 to 2016.  As the police liaison, Terry provided legal advice and training to police officers on a myriad of issues, reviewed thousands of public records requests and property/weapon dispositions; and regularly drafted resolutions and ordinances on behalf of the department.  Terry also assisted police officers with on-going criminal investigations, legal requests for arrest and search warrants, and provided legal advice for officers and commanders in the field.  Prior to being a full-time police liaison, Terry served as a criminal prosecutor on a wide range of criminal offenses and sat as first chair on more than 30 jury trials and handled hundreds of bench trials. 

In 2015, Terry was awarded the Idaho Municipal Attorneys Association, Dale Storer Professionalism Award for his significant and positive contribution to the practice of Idaho municipal law.  Terry lives in Eagle, Idaho with his wife, Nicole (who manages her own immigration law firm) and their four sons.  Terry and Nicole graduated from the University of Idaho, College of Law in 2004. 

James Tobin began his law enforcement career in 1996 with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. In 2006 Tobin joined the Prescott Valley Police Department. As a proud alumni of Yavapai College in Prescott. Az., Tobin once again became a “Roughrider” as a member of the Yavapai College Police Department in September 2016.

Tobin has been named as his agency’s “Deputy/Officer of the Year” three times (2004, 2008 and 2010) and has been named a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.) Yavapai County “DUI Officer of the Year” four times.

 In 2009, Tobin was named the MATFORCE – Yavapai County Substance Abuse Task Force “Community Member of the Year.” 

In 2011, Tobin received the “Community Leadership Award” from the Northwest Alcohol Conference (Boise, Idaho).

In 2012 Tobin received the “Mickey Sadoff - President’s Award” from the National Office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.) in Washington, D.C.  Tobin served as the Chairman of the MATFORCE Underage Drinking Task Force in Yavapai County from 2008 to 2013 and from 2016 to present.

In 2013 MATFORCE received the “National Coalition of the Year” award from CADCA from among 5000 substance abuse coalitions, with special recognition given for underage drinking enforcement and prevention efforts.

Tobin’s proudest accomplishment is being a husband to his darling wife Jacinda and a father to his wonderful children.

Author, consultant, advisor to three U.S. presidential administrations, and assistant professor, Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D., has studied, researched, written about, and implemented drug policy for almost 20 years. He has worked in the Clinton (2000), Bush (2002-2003) Administrations, and in 2011 he stepped down after serving more than two years as the senior advisor to President Obama’s drug control director, having been the only drug policy staffer to have ever served as a political appointee in a Democrat and Republican administration. He has appeared since at the Aspen Ideas and New Yorker festivals, on the Organization of American States blue ribbon commission advising hemispheric drug policy, and in hundreds of forums and discussions promoting the ideas outlined in his first book, Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana, published by Beaufort. He has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and in virtually every major media publication and news channel on the subject of drug policy.

Dr. Sabet is the President of SAM, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a science-based policy organization. He is also the Director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida and an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. With Patrick J. Kennedy, he is the co-founder of Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana). He is also a policy consultant to numerous domestic and international organizations through his company, the Policy Solutions Lab. His current clients include the United Nations, where he holds a senior advisor position at the Italy-based United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. He also recently served as the only non medical doctor on the writing committee establishing the official position on marijuana legalization for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).

In addition, he advises several non-governmental organizations working to reduce drug abuse and its consequences, and serves in an international role as an advisor, in various capacities, to the United Nations and other multi-national organizations.

Dr. Sabet’s regular blog is housed at the Huffington Post and he regularly contributes to opinion-editorial pages, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Los Angeles Times. Two of his op-eds published since 2011 have earned him a “Five Best Columns” distinction by The Atlantic. He is the winner of the 2014 Nils Bejerot Award for Global Drug Prevention, given at Stockholm City Hall by the anti-drug organization chaired by H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden and the John P. McGovern Award for Drug Prevention given by the Institute for Behavior and Health, and Robert DuPont, the founding director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

He received his Doctorate of Philosophy and Masters of Science from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar in 2007 and 2002, respectively, and his B.A. with high honors in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.