About the Workshop:
This workshop will underscore the ways in which historical trauma and institutionalized/systemic racism have impacted Black women and girls. Workshop participants will delve into IPV and other forms of intersecting violence and examine how these multiple layers of violence impact and shape Black women’s and girls’ realities. Workshop participants will also explore and potentially critique both long-held and current narratives around Black women and girls, violence, and trauma, and the impact that these narratives have on survivors’ help-seeking abilities, strategies, and socialization.
About Ujima:
The mission of the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community is to mobilize the community to respond to and end domestic, sexual and community violence in the Black community. We actualize this mission through research, public awareness and community engagement, and resource development. Ujima serves as a resource to:
- Advocates and service providers
About the Presenter: Ayanna Wallace (she / her / hers)
Ayana Wallace, MS, is the Training Specialist of Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, a project of the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Wallace’s career began as a client case coordinator providing direct services and support to victim-survivors who had sought emergency shelter.
Ms. Wallace has been instrumental in the national implementation of the Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP) and has served as the lead trainer for the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV), the state coalition in Maryland. Ms. Wallace has worked for over a decade in the domestic violence field providing both direct service to survivors and technical assistance to advocates, law enforcement, community-based partners, and faith communities.
Ms. Wallace has extensively studied the theory and every day implications of privilege, oppression, and intersectionality and strives to highlight the experiences of victim-survivors who have been marginalized and/or underrepresented. She is a writer, poet, animal advocate, and mom of two fur-babies.
