Ellen Pence is one of the original organizers of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project. She has worked within the battered women's movement at local, state, and national levels since 1975. As an international lecturer, author, and producer of several training videos on community responses to battering, she has influenced much of the thinking in the criminal justice system on this issue. Ms. Pence is currently a graduate student at the Ontario Institute of Education in Toronto.