Whistleblowers of America - Roundtable Series

2025 WPI Conference

Roundtable

Series

Bring together subpopulations of whistleblowers in a forum to share information and focus on their unique issues and identify ways to work together to address challenges.

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Our Guests

April

4.22.2025

Whistleblowers and Worship: Engaging the faith based community for support

Whistleblower mental health and resilience is a very important conversation, esapecially when disclosures impact community. How can the faith-based communities and their leaders be involved in supporting the whistleblower through the process and how can they help with the struggles people face when trying to do the right thing.

Joe Carson

Joe Carson, is the putative GOAT of career federal agency whistleblowers and “engineer zero” as a catalyst to the engineering profession consciously evolving its mission to “engineers apply laws of math and discoveries of science to the universe’s natural resources to create a world that works for all.” His decades of largely futile efforts to obtain overt support from faith communities and their leaders evidences their lack of moral/institutional courage when their professional standing and economic security could be impacted if they did other than bystand and say “you’ll get your reward in heaven, but I have to think of my family, Shalom.”

Sarah Shirley

Chaplain | Spiritual Director | Leadership & Clergy Coach | Transition & Grief Specialist

David Tenenbaum

Dr. David A. Tenenbaum has been working for the US Army as a civilian engineer since December 1984. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Chemical Engineering and a Doctorate in Business Administration. Dr. Tenenbaum has extensive experience working with other countries, conducting risk assessments and assessing technologies worldwide, and developing business opportunities worldwide.

March

3.25.2025

Spouses Speak: Living with Whistleblowers

We know that whistleblowing impacts a family because economic decisions must be made that involve finances and social status. Whistleblowers have discussed how important their families have been to them during the process. But we also know that not all families survive the stress and many whistleblowers face divorce and additional challenges to parenting. This session will bring together the spouses of whistleblowers to hear their perspectives and what would be more helpful to them as they navigated this journey, which they often did not see coming.

Karen Carson

Karen Carson is a retired pediatric critical care nurse of 44 years and a former elected school board member who served for 12 years. She and her husband, Joe, have been married for 40 years, raising three children and cherishing their roles as Mimi and Bubba to two grandchildren. For over three decades, Karen has stood by Joe as they navigated workplace threats, legal battles, and whistleblower retaliation, offering a unique perspective on the resilience and challenges faced by whistleblower families.

Kelly Paxton

Kelly has worked in the public and private sector. Most recently she worked as an investigator for Nike. Her investigations include embezzlement, conflict of interest, intellectual property, Open Source Intelligence and fraud. Kelly is also the proud owner of pinkcollarcrime.com, a passion of hers about embezzlers in the workplace. Her book, Embezzlement How to Prevent, Detect and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime, was published in December, 2020.

Madeline Tenenbaum

Madeline Tenenbaum is a clinical social worker and myomassalogist who was primarily a stay-at-home mom when her family's whistleblowing journey began. Their lives changed overnight when an FBI raid on the Sabbath disrupted their home, with their young children (4 years and 18 months) present. Days later, the media descended, turning their private struggle into public spectacle. Madeline offers a firsthand perspective on the emotional, financial, and social toll of whistleblowing on families, shedding light on the resilience needed to navigate public scrutiny and personal hardship

February

2.25.2025

The Journalist-Whistleblower Relationship Rules

Journalists and whistleblowers need each other, but what are the rules of engagement? Whistleblowers are motivated to tell their stories but knowing when you are ready to go public is important to success. It takes planning, research preparation, content development and editorial approval before a story goes to press.

AnneClaire Stapleton

AnneClaire Stapleton is a multi-Emmy Award-winning conflict journalist who spent 16 years at CNN, covering some of the world’s most urgent global issues, including terrorism, mass casualties, and major geopolitical crises. Her reporting took her to the frontlines of history-defining events, including four deployments to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022.

Ariella Steinhorn

Ariella Steinhorn is a writer and media entrepreneur. Her writing focuses on relationship dynamics in work and love. She has built two ghostwriting and media relations companies focused on exposing untold power imbalances, called Superposition and Lioness.

Our Guests

January

1.28.2025

Exposing Dirty Money

What is dirty money and how do we know when taxpayer or shareholder money is being misused or stolen? This group of financial sector experts will discuss their cases and the issues that they have faced in going to the SEC, CFTC and FINRA for assistance and support. What do we as consumers need to know about ditry money?