DSFG Solutions: Experts utilizing the power of Law, Policy, and Community

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Daphne S. Felten-Green

Daphne Felten-Green is an attorney, civil rights trainer, mediator, and facilitator of dialogue. Her work revolves around justice, equity, and community engagement and has done so throughout her decades-long career. After retiring from federal service, she founded DSFG Solutions, LLC in 2022 to continue her decades-long work of ensuring civil and human rights are protected and facilitating connection between community members to solve problems. She serves as the CEO of DSFG Solutions, LLC.

Through group facilitation and dialogue, she assists organizations in developing solutions and chart new paths of engagement. Her clients include community, faith, business, law enforcement, non-profit and government leaders. She serves as a community mediator and facilitator with the Ohio State University Moritz School of Law, Divided Community Project, at the Bridge Initiative, where she works with community, campus, state, and local government leaders hone their skills in preventing and responding effectively to civil unrest and tension in communities around the Country. She also works directly with grassroot community leaders to help them develop innovative strategies to support their efforts to prevent and stop hate and to build safe inclusive communities.

Daphne’s work with law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies focuses on providing professional hate crimes law training programs along with a consortium of fellow subject matter experts. The training aims to enhance law enforcement agencies’ investigative strategies, to increase reporting and prosecution of hate crimes, and to improve engagement with community members, survivors, and victims of hate crimes.

Prior to her work as a private consultant, Daphne served as dedicated public servant executive in the federal government. She served nearly 20 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) where she had the privilege of being one of the founding employees of the DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) which was created to advance community policing throughout the country and where she served as Associate General Counsel. She later served as Special Counsel at DOJ’s Office for Civil Rights at the Office of Justice Program where she ensured law enforcement agencies and other federal funding recipients complied with federal civil rights laws. When the Office found non-compliance, she worked collaboratively with the state and local agency executives to voluntarily comply with the law by helping them design new practices that would not be violative of civil rights laws. She later served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel of DOJ’s Community Relations Service where she oversaw policy initiatives and program implementation by a nationwide team of conciliators and mediators to prevent and quell community conflict, hate crimes and hate incidents. Daphne later served for 7 years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as its first Deputy Director in the Office of Minority Women and Inclusion and then later as Senior Policy Counsel for fair lending practices.

Daphne is heavily involved in volunteer service and serves on the Steering Committee of the Divided Community Project; as co-Chair of the Survivors in Action Working Group of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit; as a Board Member of the 2nd Lt. Collins Foundation; and as a Board Member of the Westfield State University Foundation. She also serves as an Advisor to the Executive Director and Board of Directors of VineCorps, a comprehensive youth development organization that builds neighborhood hubs of connection, action and growth in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Admitted to the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars, Daphne earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. from Westfield State University. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., and she and her family reside in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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Holly M. Davis, CAE

Holly M. Davis, CAE brings nearly 30 years of experience building the civic infrastructure that strengthens democratic participation and community leadership. She served as Executive Director of the Center for Women and Democracy and co-founder of the Indiana Leadership Forum, work centered on preparing citizens and leaders to engage effectively in public life. As Vice President of Education and Training at the National Women's Political Caucus and founder of the Evergreen Campaign Institute, she built training programs that opened pathways into political and civic leadership for people across the country. She is a 2007 graduate of the Campaign School at Yale University, serves on the Advisory Council for the LBJ School of Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin's Women's Campaign School, and is a graduate of the 2026 cohort of Leadership Alexandria.

Holly has also worked at the intersection of policy and community impact, representing the philanthropic and nonprofit sector on the Indiana Digital Equity Task Force, the Public Policy Committee of the United Philanthropy Forum, and as a national working group member focused on philanthropic reforms. Her career has combined this policy engagement with hands-on organizational leadership, including managing political affairs for trade associations and raising millions in funding from corporations, PACs, foundations, and individuals to advance mission-driven work. She is a member of the inaugural Gen2Gen Mentoring Program cohort and is preparing to attend the Reykjavik Global Forum in November 2026. Her contributions to civic and community leadership have been recognized with a place on the Indianapolis Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list, a Distinguished Hoosier honor from Governor Mitch Daniels, and a Sagamore of the Wabash from Governor Eric Holcomb.

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Pardeep S. Kalenka

Pardeep Singh Kaleka is Clinical Director at Mental Health America-Wisconsin, a senior anti-hate advocate, and co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds. After losing his father in the 2012 Oak Creek Sikh Temple attack, he became a leading voice for community healing, resilience, and faith.

With over 27 years of experience in law enforcement, education, mental health, and supporting hate-crime survivors, Pardeep has served with the U.S. Department of Justice-CRS and led the Interfaith Conference. He specializes in communal trauma and helps public health professionals, educators, and law enforcement develop community-oriented strategies to address conflict, hate, and rising targeted violence.

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Lisalyn Jacobs

Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO, of Just Solutions: Bringing in Justice. With 35 years of experience as a lawyer and policy expert, she has vast experience at the federal level in working with both the executive and legislative branches, and on federal judicial nominations. She advises federal and non-profit clients on a variety of issues including racial, gender and economic equity, restorative justice, campus sexual violence, workplace and other economic protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence, sexual harassment, and stalking, criminal justice and policing reform, and the intersections of two or more of these issues.

Listed by Women's Media Center for press expertise in sexual and domestic violence, civil rights, education (including affirmative action, Title IX and campus sexual assault). She has been quoted in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Politico, and on NPR. Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, the Hill, and on Talk Poverty.

Recipient of American Bar Association; Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence 20/20 Vision Award (2015). Contributor: Michelle Obama's Impact on African American Women and Girls (2018). Author of, “Showing Up: How We See, Speak and Disrupt Racial Inequity Facing Survivors,” (Center for Survivor Agency and Justice, 2017); Co-author of, “The Need for a Uniform Federal Response to the Workplace Impact of Interpersonal Violence,” (Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, 2010).

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Nadine Neufville

Nadine Neufville is a subject matter expert with more than 25 years of experience developing effective collaborative initiatives addressing domestic abuse, sexual violence, stalking, dating violence, and trafficking in persons with a particular focus on how those crimes impact underserved and underrepresented communities. Currently consulting on gender-based violence and human trafficking, Ms. Neufville began her lifelong commitment to ending gender-based violence in 1985 as a volunteer with her local domestic violence shelter. She now provides domestic and international advice and guidance regarding gender-based violence training, technical assistance, and professional tools and resources to non-profit organizations, public and private universities, and federal, state, local, and tribal governmental agencies.

Ms. Neufville has developed a reputation for her proficiency in using problem-solving skills and sound judgment to positively impact organizational success. For more than a decade, she served as the Deputy Director for Grant Development and Management with the US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) - directing the programmatic and financial management of OVW's 20+ discretionary and formula grant programs, demonstration projects, and Training and Technical Assistance Initiative with an annual appropriation of several hundred million dollars. She led organizational effectiveness by building and maintaining relationships with external constituents, actively engaging staff in organizational challenges, and aligning operations to support mission and performance toward leadership's goals.

Ms. Neufville brings to projects expertise in forming and directing multi-disciplinary teams to meet shared goals while respecting and maintaining individual professional responsibilities. During her OVW tenure, which began in 1996, she was centrally involved in OVW's efforts to offer ground-breaking educational opportunities and tools for the cohort of professionals responsible for the justice system's response to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. She has worked directly with judges, prosecutors, victim advocates, law enforcement officers, and civil attorneys to ensure that technical assistance meets their professional needs and effectively responds to their specific professional challenges and responsibilities. She has also represented the United States in international meetings related to ending gender-based violence. She firmly believes that grant funds without appropriate training and technical assistance can be more dangerous to survivor safety and well-being than the absence of grant funds.

Admitted to the Maryland Bar, Ms. Neufville received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her undergraduate degree from Yale University.