Maren’s work in the movement to end violence against women began in northern Minnesota in 2000 when she served as the coordinator of an extensive community-based analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system’s response to violence against Indigenous women. [Read more]
Maren’s work in the movement to end violence against women began in northern Minnesota in 2000 when she served as the coordinator of an extensive community-based analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system’s response to violence against Indigenous women. She has since volunteered as an on-call advocate for a battered women’s shelter and as a birth doula for low income women. In her twenty years at Praxis, Maren has provided extensive consultation and guidance to communities across the country seeking to improve their system responses to gender-based violence. She has co-developed numerous resources, including: Engage to Protect: Foundations for Supervised Visitation and Exchange; Building the Practice of Orientation in Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange: A Trainers Guide; and most recently, Make the Call – A Toolkit for Advocacy Programs to Implement Advocacy-Initiated Response to Domestic Violence Crimes. Currently Maren serves as the senior manager responsible for the implementation of Praxis’ Institutional Analysis and Blueprint for Safety programs.