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Farzana leads the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, as its Chief Executive Officer, strategically guiding its resources, policy advocacy, training and technical assistance provided in the United States and its territories while centering racial equity in advancing safety and supports for survivors of domestic violence.  She is a founding member of the U.S.-based Muslim Advocacy Network against Domestic Violence, focusing on building collaborative partnerships and developing resources. 

She has had a long and deep commitment to prevention of violence and is active in her local community in Harrisburg, PA, co-leading the Strategies for Community Action Committee of the Community Responder’s Network to expand community dialogue to protect and safeguard the safety, respect, and dignity of all. She is also a planning  committee member for the Community Diversity Forum, a conglomerate of regional representatives of higher education, health systems, social justice & disability rights organizations committed to promoting diversity in the community through consistent and informative educational forums. She serves on the board of the Pennsylvania Immigrant & Refugee Women’s Network and nationally on the Navigators Circle of the Resonance Network.

She has a Bachelor’s in English and Anthropology and has her Master’s in Public Administration with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management. She also successfully completed a Harvard Executive Education Fellowship on Performance Measurement for Nonprofits and another on Building and Leading Diverse Organizations.

Kate (she/they) is a queer Southern femme mama who adores her family, reveling in bodies of water, the smell of magnolia blossoms, and the hum of cicadas in the summer. Kate works in the movement to end sexual and intimate partner violence and is especially drawn to art as narrative and political practice, discovering new ways to foster compassion, and dreaming up futures in which we all thrive. She is enthralled with the work of Resonance and deeply proud and humbled to be in company with the luminous spirits and minds who make up its glorious network. Kate hails from the lands of the Kiskiack peoples, currently known as Williamsburg, Virginia.

My life practice is supporting aspirations and dream-making. I believe together, we can build a world where all thrive over generations. I am seeking ways to integrate spirit, community, physical presence and this thing we call work. Love is my gift and knowing is my core strength.  I will always be learning and experimenting. I am invested in knowing the ancestors and hearing their wisdom in service of the descendants. I am a storyteller and a listener. My personal challenge is saying ‘yes’ to too much. I love without reservation. (She/they pronouns).

Klarissa Oh (she/they) believes that there is a divine light in each of us, and she seeks to contribute to a world that recognizes, honors, and celebrates all people and especially children. Klarissa is a proud auntie, a neighbor, a partner, a daughter, a sister, a mama, an activist, a group facilitator, a practitioner and facilitator of Non-Violent Communication, and a companion to her own beloved self.  She is co-launching repairenting.org, a project supporting adults to accompany themselves in loving and powerful ways and, thereby enabling them to be with and for the young people and beloveds in their lives.  She is thrilled to be a part of Resonance where she finds people, vision, and practices that show her that another world–where all people are seen and valued–is not only possible but is already happening. 

Kristiana Huitrón (ella/she/her) Coloraduense Mexicana and Métis, is the Executive Director of Voces Unidas for Justice, founded in 2010. She has been working to end domestic and sexual violence for over twenty-years in rural and urban settings, in both Spanish and English, with adults, adolescents, and children, men and women.  She has worked nationally with Red Wind Consulting, Inc. as editor of Creating Sister Space, and providing SAFE and SART training across Indian Country; and with Casa de Esperanza’s National Latin@ Network on the Research and Evaluation Team. She has contributed to publications in her field and co-authoring the Finding a Way report. She has spent 5 cumulative years at Violence Free Colorado (Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence), once in response to child and youth programming, and once in response to culturally and linguistically appropriate programming as one of the states only innovators in Promotoras as advocates in the work to end violence. Locally, to Colorado Springs, she has been providing community-based programming for over a decade, with youth, Spanish speaking community, and in both cultural and professional settings. Voces Unidas for Justice published the research around un/under-served victims of violence, Finding a Healing Way and has converted this to a statewide awareness campaign to connect historically marginalized victims to culturally relevant, community-based supports. She is spearheading projects to address the intersection of trauma and substances, and the intersections of survivorship and incarceration for women of color. Most recently Ms. Huitrón has been appointed as a commissioner to the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, and is a member of Resonance Network’s Navigators Circle. 

Raven E. Freeborn (they/themme) is a savvy queer healing justice and liberation strategist. Their work spans reproductive, gender, economic, and racial justice movements. They make offerings as a licensed clinical social worker, full-spectrum doula, harm reductionist, community educator, storyteller, and a damn good cook. Raven’s mission is to build beloved community that reckons with the truth of historical and present-day oppressions to actualize liberating solutions for all people—particularly people who are Black, brown, queer, and gender expansive.