Amalfi first joined the movement to end violence against women as a student attorney in the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at Tulane University, where she represented survivors obtaining protective orders, divorces and child custody. [Read more]
Amanda (kanaka maoli) has nearly a decade of experience as an advocate, organizer, and technical assistance provider in the movement to end gender-based violence. [Read more]
Bree began her advocacy in the movement to end gender-based violence in 1997. Since then, she has worked as an advocate, trainer, coordinator, supervisor and program director for community-based, domestic and sexual violence organizations. [Read more]
Diane has been an educator, advocate, and activist in the movement to end gender-based violence for thirty years. She previously directed a campus advocacy and prevention program, worked at battered women’s shelters in Ohio and Washington, D.C., and has been active in community-based social change efforts addressing violence, reproductive justice, and racial justice. [Read more]
Elena has been involved in the movement to end gender-based violence as an advocate, activist, organizer, and researcher. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Justice (concentration on Incarcerated Women), as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. [Read more]
Kata has worked to end gender-based violence for over thirty-five years as an advocate, therapist, trainer and manager for grassroots, campus, local and national sexual assault and domestic violence organizations. She joined the Praxis staff in 2017 and holds a Masters in Social Work. [Read more]
Kue is new to the gender-based violence field but brings experience from the realm of higher education access and equity. For four years, he organized retreats and programs to inform first-generation, low-income students of color about how to access higher education. [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. [Read more]
Noushin came to Praxis in 2007 with over thirty years of accounting and financial experience in all aspects of accounting and finance. She holds a Master Degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Keller Graduate School, a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Azad University in Iran, and has completed extensive training in Government Financial Management. [Read more]
For the last five years, Patrice's work and passions have been firmly seated in the reproductive justice movement, which she views as an extension of the movement to end gender-based violence. Patrice joined Praxis, December 2018. [Read more]
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Shelly has worked to end gender-based violence since 1994, working previously with the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs, including their Battered Women’s Justice Project, U. S. Marine Corps Training Project, and the National Training Project. [Read more]
