Deborah is a licensed and certified EMDR therapist, trainer, and consultant at Curo. Deborah believes in the transformational power of neurobiology for individuals, groups, and businesses. With advanced training and certifications in EMDR, she offers comprehensive and integrative interventions that effectively create adaptive experiences in current life experiences. With over 15 years of experience and lots of humor, she leads people and organizations into empowerment through research-based approaches.

Robert Downen is a senior writer at Texas Monthly who often focuses on the intersection of politics and religion. Before joining TM in 2025, he covered politics and extremism for The Texas Tribune, where his work on the influence of far-right megadonors and white supremacists on the Texas GOP won or placed for numerous national investigative awards. A native of the Chicago suburbs, Robert arrived in Houston the day before Hurricane Harvey, and soon after, he began leading the Houston Chronicle’s groundbreaking coverage of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention—coverage that led to historic reforms, new laws in Texas, and a Department of Justice investigation. He is now based in Austin.

Tiffany Thigpen is an advocate for changes regarding abuse by spiritual authorities in Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) churches. She hopes to lessen the predatory ease of access in prevention steps and also to improve the response to reporting. An advocate since 2007, Tiffany has been actively participating in reform efforts, including media campaigns for awareness and subsequently in the SBC's investigations and task force discussions, asking leadership for abuse reform.