Taylor Teichman is a Project Coordinator for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center providing national and statewide trainings, ongoing technical assistance, and resource development and management. From grassroots initiatives, to advocacy, and current national work and projects, Taylor carries with her over 10+ years of involvement in the sexual violence movement. In relation to her professional and personal work, Taylor enjoys exploring the variety of ways to center healing with teaching and practicing yoga and other movement, traveling, reading, and personally embracing her inner child.

Dr. Connie Wunn is a community-based advocate, educator, and researcher on issues impacting women and girls of color. She is the co-founder of AAPI Women Lead, an organization working to strengthen political and social platforms for Asian and Pacific Islander communities. She founded Transformative Research, a consultancy that trains organizations in community-driven research and data analysis. She has published with Feminist Wire, Race, Ethnicity, and Education, and more. She gives talks across the US on issues of race, gender, and violence, including an appearance on BET for the Angela Rye Show. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley.

Strong Oak Lefebvre is the co-founder and Executive Director of Visioning B.E.A.R. (balance, equality, and Respect) Circle Intertribal Coalition, Inc., a nonprofit organization. Ms Lefebvre is a member of the first Governor’s Statutory Restorative Justice Advisory Committee for the state of Massachusetts. She will serve on the committee for a six-year term from November 2018 to November 2024. Ms Lefebvre serves on the Raliance Policy Group committee of the National Partnership Initiative. She has an MSSA from Case Western Reserve University.

Bianca I Laureano is an award-winning educator, curriculum writer, and sexologist. She is a founding member of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN), The LatiNegrxs Project, and founded ANTE UP! a virtual freedom school for justice workers offering professional development in 2017. She has written several curricula that focus on communities of color: What’s the REAL DEAL about Love and Solidarity? (2015) and Communication MixTape: Speak On It Vol 1. (2017) and wrote the sexual and reproductive justice discussion guide for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene published in 2018. Bianca has been on the board of CLAGS, the LGBTQ Center at CUNY, and The Black Girl Project. She currently resides in Oakland, CA with her core partner G and is an AASECT certified sexuality educator. Find out more about Bianca at her website BiancaLaureano.com.

Emma believes strongly in the power of a therapeutic relationship to promote healing. Since completing her MSW in 2004 her focus has been on trauma recovery for survivors of domestic violence and sexual trauma. In her practice now she’s working with individuals and couples on body positivity, exploration of polyamory and ethical non-monogamy, challenges with sexual desires and gender identity. A long history of working with adolescents and teenagers, including teaching sexual health education, Emma is particularly invested in providing non-judgmental support to young people who are struggling with issues related to their body, gender and/or sexuality.

Tracy Wright is the Technical Assistance Provider and Women of Color Leadership Project Coordinator with the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault for the National Resource Sharing Project. Her current work provides technical assistance and training to 16 state and territorial sexual assault coalitions. In this capacity, Tracy works with national entities to create a coordinated response to ending sexual violence, addresses emerging issues and carves out initiatives specifically for women of color in the anti-sexual violence movement. Tracy holds a BA in Mass Communications from Shaw University and a MS in Print Journalism from Florida A&M University.

Michelle Dixon-Wall is a Technical Assistance Provider at the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs for the National Resource Sharing Project. In her role, she supports 18 Sexual Assault Coalitions from the Dakotas to the U.S. territories in the Pacific. Prior to coalition work, Michelle worked in dual advocacy programs for 11 years in both Washington and California. During this time, she had the unique experience of working for one of the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative sites during the project. Michelle is a graduate of the Evergreen State College, with a primary field of study in gender and social justice.

Vanessa Timmons is the Executive Director of the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence and has been a writer, activist, and women’s health advocate for over 25 years. She attended Marylhurst University’s Multidisciplinary Studies Program in Portland, Oregon, and has continued her formal education through certificates and training, including the Interpersonal Neurobiology of Trauma Certification Program at Portland State University. Vanessa has served as the Director of Programs at Raphael House of Portland, a Northwest regional field organizer for the National Organization for Women, and the domestic violence program coordinator for the Multnomah County Domestic Violence Coordination Office, in addition to serving OCADSV in the past as the Women of Color Coordinator and Board Chair.

Since 1991, Keri Moran-Kuhn has been engaged in supporting survivors. Her work began in Ohio, then continued in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and eventually lead her to Oregon in 2000. Keri has been with the Oregon Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence since 2005 in various roles and currently is the Associate Director. Keri works on behalf of Oregon's local domestic and sexual violence community-based programs and utilizes her skills advocating for survivors and for the programs who serve them, with state systems as well as nationally. She is the proud mama of three kiddos.

Leanne Guy, Diné, has over 21 years of experience in tribal community health promotion/disease prevention, public health, and safety initiatives. She is the founding executive director of the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition, the first statewide tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalition in Arizona. Previously, she directed a tribal domestic violence and sexual assault victim services program on the Diné Nation and worked for the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. and the Indian Health Service directing programs on HIV/AIDS and women’s health, respectively. Presently, Leanne serves on the boards of the Alliance of Tribal Coalitions to End Violence and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.

Kelly Wilt is a writer, speaker, and practitioner with over a decade of experience in trauma and healing work. She has worked closely with individuals and communities across the United States and abroad to help build strong practices for healing and wellness. As warm as she is fierce, Kelly is passionate about supporting people and projects that work to create a better world. Interested in the intersections of individual and community wellbeing—nutrition, movement and mental health—creative expression, activism, and healing—and methods for building sustainable community-based initiatives, Kelly thrives working with topics that are often overlapping and nuanced.

I am … Black Womyn Queer Gemini Full Figured Army Brat First Born Big Sister Daughter GodMomx3 Friend Lover Founder of Voycetress Media LLC divorced Phd Student Womyn’s College grad survivor of sexual assault at age 12 twice survivor of structural violence by grown adult bullies dialogue facilitator. Knowing all is happening for me and not to me. Battling daily the parts of me content to remain broken and the parts of me desiring to be healed. A documenter of Her-story/ theirstory/ himstory/ themstory. I am not Shaashawna, Shawan, Sasquatch or Shawshank. My Mother named me Shaashawn, so I am. (punctuation absent and present on purpose)

Laura Palumbo is Communications Director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Laura works on strategic messaging, media engagement and educational materials to promote that prevention is possible. For over nine years she had led NSVRC in developing materials for advocates, parents, college students and media. She holds a Master of Arts in Communications from Penn State University with specializations in Critical Cultural Studies, Media Analysis and Non-profit Management.

Cat Fribley has been working to end sexual violence since 1994. She directs the Resource Sharing Project (RSP) for the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Through this project she provides capacity building training and technical assistance to those working to end sexual violence, as well as coordinating the national activities of the project. She has worked to end sexual and domestic violence for these last 20+ years at national, state, and local advocacy organizations. Cat trains on a broad range of sexual assault issues with special interest areas including survivors giving birth, healing sexuality, anti-racist organizing, organizational development, and LGBTQI issues.

Kris Bein is the Assistant Director for the Resource Sharing Project at the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, where she provides training and technical assistance to state and territorial sexual assault coalitions and rural dual/multi-service advocacy agencies on sexual assault services and advocacy skills. Ms. Bein has been a part of the anti-violence movement since 1995. She provided medical and legal advocacy to sexual assault survivors and institutional advocacy in rural southern Illinois before coming to the RSP.

Karla Vierthaler is Advocacy and Resources Director for National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). She supports the provision of technical assistance to the nation on a wide range of sexual violence prevention and intervention topics. She has been an advocate in the movement to end sexual violence for over twenty years. Ms. Vierthaler previously worked for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, where she developed resources and provided training on the impact of sexual violence in various communities, including adults in later life, people with disabilities, and others.

Sally J. Laskey is the Evaluation Coordinator at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. For over 25 years, Ms. Laskey has worked for social change at local, state and national levels. She focuses her work on sexual assault program development, evaluation, and sustainability.

Ali Mailen Perrotto is the President/CEO of SARCC of Lebanon & Schuylkill Counties. Her agency provides no-cost counseling, advocacy, and community education on sexual violence prevention and response. She holds a Master’s degree in Community Psychology & Social Change from Pennsylvania State University. She has worked as at local, state, and national organizations providing advocacy, information, and support around sexual violence victimization and prevention.

Nicole Matthews is a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, and is the Executive Director for Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition, a statewide coalition and National Tribal Technical Assistance Provider, addressing sexual violence and sex trafficking against Indigenous people The mission of this organization is to strengthen the voices of Indigenous women to create awareness, influence social change, and reclaim the traditional values that honor the sovereignty of Indigenous women and children thereby eliminating the sexual violence perpetrated against them. Their vision is: Creating Safety and Justice for Native Women Through the Teachings of Our Grandmothers. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State University in Applied Psychology including a minor in Human Relations and Multicultural Education. Nicole was one of five researchers who interviewed 105 Native women used in prostitution and trafficking for their report: Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. Nicole sits on the State of Minnesota Attorney General’s Work Group on Sexual Assault; she is a board member for the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; she sits on the Work Group on Sexual Assault Investigation Training for Peace Officers; and she has presented at numerous conferences and events on sexual violence and sex trafficking. Nicole is also the proud mother of three beautiful children and the grandmother to one. They give her the strength and motivation to continue working to end gender-based violence.

White, queer, and genderqueer, Rev. Miller Hoffman has worked for two decades at the crossroads of social, spiritual, and sexual justice with national civil rights organizations, New York-based anti-violence programs, and local domestic- and rape-crisis centers. He is ordained with Metropolitan Community Churches and a student and teacher of tai chi chuan. Miller's writing explores the places where personal action meets and impacts social change.

Tiombe Wallace is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 23 years of experience as a Black intersectional feminist therapist, educator, and activist. She is the owner of a private psychotherapy practice, training and consulting business. She provides services and training for rape crisis and domestic violence advocates, social workers, therapists, first responders, and campuses across the nation. Her specializations include intersectional feminist therapy, culturally responsive trauma-informed care, sexual and intimate partner violence, and healing historical trauma in communities experiencing marginalization and oppression.

Santa Molina-Marshall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Holistic Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who has been in the field of trauma and sexual violence since 1990. In April 2014, she was awarded the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2014 Visionary Voice Award, for her outstanding work in the field of anti-sexual violence within her community. She manages her Private Practice in Washington, DC and is a national and international speaker on Cultural Issues, Women, Trauma, Mindfulness, Grief and Loss, Compassion Fatigue, The Neurobiology of Trauma, and other topics. She received her BS and her MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work in NYC and obtained licensing/certification as a Massage Therapist, Integral Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and is an Ordained Interfaith Minister from the New Seminary in New York City. For 8 years she held the position of Director of Counseling and Advocacy at the DC Rape Crisis Center, and directed the Center’s counseling program; and supervised all clinical staff and graduate social work students. Between March 2013 and January 2014, Ms. Molina-Marshall served as Interim Executive Director. She is a compassionate dedicated clinician, administrator and survivor.

Wanda Swan directs the Office of Respect at Emory University and is a national award-winning survivor advocate. Leading an anti-violence program that works to end violence by ending oppression, she prioritizes investigating the historical racial context associated with systems built, sustained by, or benefitting from White Supremacy. Embedded in the anti-violence movement for the over 10 years, Wanda seeks value in interrogating systems of oppression and examining strategies minoritized groups are often forced to employ for self-preservation. Wanda also owns Seed of the Free, LLC., a greeting card company using Petty Activism as a form of resistance and co-founded Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association.

A yoga professional since 2002 with a wide variety of experiences in healing and resiliency, recently enhanced with yoga therapeutics, yoga for healthy aging, as well as mindfulness based stress reduction & trauma informed yoga. These tools are shared with drop in centers, organizations, kids & survivors of trauma. Lori provides classes, workshops, retreats, and private sessions. She integrates natural systems thinking, personal training & meditation to find and maintain our own individual wise movement and sustainability. When we are in good awareness ourselves, we are continuing to expand the toolkit used in wellness for whole-life, whole community solutions. We remain aware of our innate wisdom as a key to being in respectful relation to our own system and surroundings.

Valerie Davis has been part of the anti-violence movement since 1995 and currently works with the Resource Sharing Project as the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative TA Specialist providing training and technical assistance to dual/multi-service programs on enhancing and building comprehensive sexual assault services. Valerie holds a master’s degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in domestic violence, from the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to her work with the RSP, Valerie worked as an advocate and Program Director for a dual domestic violence and sexual assault program within a larger multi-service agency for fifteen years. Over the course of her career in the anti-violence movement, Valerie has been responsible for program development, supervision and mentoring of staff and volunteers, ensuring quality services, grant management, sustainability, community partnerships, training, and direct service.

Mira Yusef is the executive director of Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity, formerly Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa, an organization serving victims/survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Iowa. She is also one of the founders and a member of the National Organization of Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV). In addition, she serves on the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) National Advisory Council. Mira has a Master’s in Social Work, with specialization in Community Organizing, and a Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mira was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, 2004-2005, to pursue research in the Philippines on Muslim Filipinas employed as domestic workers in the Middle East. She was also awarded the National Security Education Program (NSEP) David Boren Fellowship in 2006 to study the Indonesian and Malay languages as well as conduct field research in Malaysia and Philippines. Mira can be reached at mira@monsooniowa.org

Germaine Omish-Lucero, has been advocating the needs of Native victims over 20 years. She is the original Executive Director for the Strong Hearted Native Women’s Coalition, Inc., founded in 2005, to assist tribes to create the appropriate tribal resolutions to assist in identifying and mediating essential changes to reduce crimes covered under VAWA. Germaine now sits as a board member representing her reservation. She volunteers her time between several state/national organizations and works part-time as the Special Projects Director for the Alliance of Tribal Coalitions to End Violence. She is a tribal citizen of the Rincon, Band of Luiseno Indians in San Diego County, Ca.

Guadalupe Lopez is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and has been employed for the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition since 2007. She has extensive experience in advocacy for American Indian women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence. Guadalupe is known for her expertise in training and presenting on a wide variety of issues surrounding sexual violence of American Indian and Alaska Native women. She was one of the culturally-specific TA providers for the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative through the Office of Violence Against Women, and has been a faculty member for Praxis International’s Advocacy Learning Center. She also volunteered as a sexual assault advocate for Sexual Offence Services of Ramsey County for eight years. In addition, Guadalupe was also one of five researchers who interviewed 105 Native women used in prostitution and trafficking for MIWSAC's report: Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. Guadalupe also provided Technical Assistance to over 30 tribes under the Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program for the Office on Violence Against Woman.