Paula Julian serves as Senior Policy Specialist for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC), the National Indian Resource Center Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women. Paula assists with policy analysis and development, technical assistance and training, and development of partnerships to strengthen laws, policies and responses addressing violence against Native women. Paula has worked with Alaska Native advocates to establish the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center and with Native Hawaiian advocates to form the Pouhana O Na Wahine (Pillars of Women) – both organizations dedicated to addressing domestic and gender-based violence in the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian community respectively. Formerly, Paula was an Outreach Coordinator with Sacred Circle and also worked for the Avellaka Program of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians to establish the Program and help develop the Tribe’s response to violence against women. Paula worked with the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. in a technical assistance project to strengthen tribal capacity to assist sexual assault victims, including the development of a curriculum, community education and webinar materials.
From 1995-2005, Paula was a Program Manager at the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice. Highlights of her time at OVW include: analysis and development of policies affirming government-to-government relations and the Federal trust responsibility, for the Department and with other Federal agencies; development of the Safety for Indian Women from Sexual Assault Offenders Initiative; development and administration from 2001-2006 of the Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Grant Program; management of the following OVW Programs: STOP Violence Against Indian Women, STOP Violence Against Women, and the State Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Coalitions; and development and implementation of technical assistance and training.
Frances Andrews joined the AKNWRC at the beginning of March 2022 as the Senior Program Specialist with a focus on Grants Administration and Management. She is Tlingit – Daaklaweidi (Eagle Killerwhale) from Angoon. Her Tlingit name is Khin-du-ane. The last five years of her career were spent with the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska where she worked as the Court Administrator and ended her time there as the Tribe’s Grant Manager. Her background is in Administration and Grant Management and she is excited to bring this experience to the TA Team at AKNWRC. She was born and raised in Southeast Alaska where she has spent most of her life. In the summer of 2021 she relocated to Anchorage where she now lives with her youngest daughter. She is also blessed to be the mother of a recent high-school graduate, Amanda and a HS Sophomore, Shaun.
Rick Garcia
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