CSVANW Advocate of the Month -July 2022

CSVANW would like to take the opportunity to announce Gina Lopez as our CSVANW Advocate of the Month for August 2022!
Gina joined CCASA in October 2018 as the Rural & Indigenous Communities Manager, a remote-work position. As part of the Programs Team with CCASA, she provides training, technical assistance, education, and culturally-specific victim services discussions. A member and resident of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado, and had been the Program Coordinator for the Tribe’s first-ever tribal comprehensive victim services from late 2015 to 2018 supervising DV/SA and suicide prevention IHS grant programs. She is also a facilitator of NAUHZCASA (Navajo, Apache, Ute Hopi, Zuni Coalition Against Sexual Assault) which has existed for 12 years through various facilitators. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice/Criminology from the Metro State University of Denver. In her downtime, she is a fierce aunty to many kiddos and young adults in her Tribal community roots.
Giving abuse survivors a helping hand
https://www.abqjournal.com/1493966/giving-abuse-survivors-a-helping-hand.html
CSVANW Advocate Community Newsletter
August 2022