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Dr Dominic Willmott
Chair/Senior Trustee
Dr Dom Willmott Chair of the Board of Trustees Reader in Legal Psychology, Loughborough Uni Dominic is regularly invited to deliver talks and training about the role of bias in the courtroom, as well as how psychology can be used to better understand and tackle rape and gender-based violence.
Chantelle Davis
Advisory Board
Chantelle is a solicitor working for a global law firm and she is a specialist in commercial litigation. She advises on a broad range of areas including political risk, product and property liability and prospects of recovery in complex insurance litigation. Chantelle also has experience in events organisation and marketing/PR.
Ramya Nagesh
Trustee
Ramya is a barrister and author, specialising in criminal law. Before coming to the Bar Ramya worked primarily in the not for profit sector specialising in human rights and international criminal law. Ramya currently sits on the CPS West Midlands Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel as the independent Barrister representative.
Danielle Davis
Advisory Board
Danielle’s background has spanned across the public and not for profit sector focusing on improving strategic responses to violence and abuse. Her research has included: young people who have experienced sexual exploitation, young men displaying harmful sexual behaviour and the needs of male sexual assault victims. Danielle has a degree in psychology from the University of West London and is the founder and director of Davis and Associates.
Eileen Doyle
Trustee
Eileen is a counsellor with extensive third sector experience. She is a specialist in providing therapeutic interventions to adults who have been sexually abused as children. She formerly worked for a charity providing counselling for people affected by rape and sexual assault. Eileen also runs a thriving private practice, working with adults and young people.
John Lennon
Trustee
John has a background in social work, training social workers and working with adults with learning difficulties. John is a survivor and has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of male rape. He is the author of ‘My Journey to Justice?’ which chronicles his experience. John has previously set up a charity to help male survivors of sexual violence.
Dr Anthony Murphy
Advisory Board
Anthony is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology with a research focus on criminal justice, police investigation, psycho-legal process, and victim experience. Anthony’s work includes collaborating with the Metropolitan Police to develop rape myth training for officers, the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime for the 2019 London Rape Review, and multiple levels of the criminal justice system. Anthony is passionate about using research to build evidence-based practice in training of personnel in criminal justice to improve the experiences of victims.
Nicola Herbert
Advisory Board
Nicola is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and rape. She told her story 38 years later when she went on to endure a gladiatorial experience in the witness box and lived under the spotlight of the press during a high profile trial. The last six years she has put her experiences to good use as a public speaker helping the public and professional organisations to understand more about this topic. She works with NHS England and is part of a research project at Coventry University that is determining how to make a victim's experience through a SARC a more sympathetic and effective journey. In her private health and wellness practice she runs trauma informed yoga workshops supporting men and women in their quest to manage their trauma and recovery.
Our Patron
Madeleine Black
Madeleine Black has an unusual personal story which she uses to inspire and motivate others. She chose to forgive the two men who gang raped her at thirteen years old and she shares her story for many reasons. She wants to end the shame, stigma and silence surrounding sexual violence enabling others to find their voice, whatever their story is. The sharing of her story publicly on The Forgiveness Project’s website in September 2014, opened many doors for Madeleine in ways she never imagined, and the invitations started to pour in. Many women and men got in contact and explained how reading her story gave them strength, hope, and a different perspective of what’s possible in their lives. She has taken part in both TV and radio interviews and has been invited to share her story of being gang raped as a teenager at conferences, book events, schools etc. In March 2018 she won the Amazing Strength award at the No. 1 Magazine Amazing Women Awards and in October of the same year was asked to be the Patron for Say Women, a Scottish organisation which offers safe accommodation and support to young women who are survivors of sexual abuse/rape and who are homeless. She is one of 50 Thrivers taking part in research by The Global Resilience Project to develop a resilience blueprint for others. She is a TEDx speaker, a story teller for The Forgiveness Project and has recently become involved with their programme RESTORE, sharing her story in prisons Her memoir, Unbroken, was published on April 4th 2017.
Director and Co-Founder
Leonie Hodge
Leonie Hodge is a consultant, trainer, and social change leader with 19 years of unbroken expertise in safeguarding, consent education, and justice reform. She began this work at the age of 23, leaving a career as a TV researcher to found TeenBoundariesUK in 2008 — at a time when sexualised bullying and sexting were not yet part of the public conversation. Using her own savings and an instinct that the issue was urgent and underserved, she built one of the UK's first organisations dedicated to preventing peer-on-peer sexual exploitation and promoting healthy relationships among young people.
please rewrite e: TeenBoundariesUK was launched with the support of community service volunteers in Hemel Hempstead, alongside the backing of local MP Mike Penning and the Children, Schools and Families team at Hertfordshire County Council, whose representatives attended early sessions to observe lesson delivery and contribute to question-and-answer discussions on content and approach.
Under her leadership, TeenBoundaries reached over 7,000 teenagers and trained more than 800 headteachers, teaching staff, and health workers across England. The charity secured funding from the Home Office Crime Innovation Fund, Comic Relief, and the Big Lottery, and successfully merged with national parenting charity Family Lives in 2011. Her work was recognised across national media, including two appearances on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, a filmed resource for BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, a feature on BBC Breakfast, and coverage in The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, OK! Magazine, and BBC World.
In the years that followed, Leonie extended her expertise into higher education and the corporate sector. She was the named Anti-Harassment and Training Officer at the University of Bath, where she designed and delivered "Be The Change" — a mandatory 15-hour e-learning induction on diversity, inclusion, and anti-harassment now completed by every student and member of staff at one of the UK's top-10 universities. She has also delivered programmes for law firms including Clarke Willmott LLP, where she was recommended by colleagues at Simmons & Simmons, and has served as Interim Learning and Development Projects Lead at Women's Aid.
In 2020, Leonie founded Justice Is Now, a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for survivors of sexual violence through advocacy, judicial reform, and direct support. She works alongside barristers, judges, and the police to embed trauma-informed practices across the criminal justice system, develops educational modules for future sexual offences barristers, and acts as a structured voice for complainants navigating the courts. Her approach is grounded in the understanding that rape is not only a criminal justice issue but a public health inequality — one whose consequences ripple across families and generations, costing England and Wales an estimated £400 billion in lifetime economic burden each year.
Now 42, Leonie brings nearly two decades of frontline experience, policy influence, and institutional credibility to every aspect of her work. She remains one of the most consistent, innovative, and trusted voices in the UK on consent, safeguarding, and justice for survivors of sexual violence.
For speaking, consultancy, or media enquiries, please contact info@justiceisnow.org
Early Press links:
*Radio 5 live investigates* 5th October 2014 First to highlight sexting as a national issue around self-harm
**BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour** 20 September 2011 Partner violence among disadvantaged teenagers; with Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone
**BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour** April 2013 Sexting and pornography with Mariella Frostrup, Claire Perry MP and the Deputy Children's Commissioner
**BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat** c.2013–15 Filmed session plan on pornography and consent — lauded as a groundbreaking classroom resource
**The Sunday Times** 27 May 2012 "Dangers of the 'sexting' generation" — full feature
**OK! Magazine & BBC World** 2008 Charity launch
**The Daily Telegraph** c.2012 *Commercialism, Sexualisation and Hyper Masculinity* Report national press coverage
**LVS Perspectives #32** 18 Nov 2021 Relationships, Sex and Health Education — guest speaker
**ClickView / School Matters** Ongoing , Anti-bullying lessons to teenagers — broadcast educational resource
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