Ana Maria M. Guzman, J.D. has been a Client Service Specialist with the State Public Defender’s Office-Milwaukee Trial since 1988.  In addition, Ms. Guzman served as a Lecturer at Marquette University for the Department of Social and Cultural Science.  She taught two of the required courses for the Social Work Program for 7 years.  Her work as an advocate has led to her involvement with the National Association for Sentencing Advocates for which she currently is serving her third term as a Board Member.  One of her areas of concentration at the Milwaukee Trial Office has been in sexual assault and AODA issues.  She obtained her training in sex offender issues with the Wisconsin Sex Offender Treatment Network and the nationally recognized Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.  She is at present a member of the National Resource Group for the Center for Sex Offender Management, a national effort to address the issue of sex offender management.  Ms. Guzman attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension for the AODA Certification Track Program.  She serves as a Field Liaison for several area university programs in criminal justice and social work  Ms. Guzman is also greatly interested in multicultural issues and has facilitated numerous workshops in cultural diversity, including authoring a chapter entitled, “We Live and Learn in an Increasingly Diverse Society,” published in Developing Leadership Through Student Employment.  She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her undergraduate work, majoring in Philosophy.  She went on to receive her Juris Doctorate from Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C.