Ruhani Amin - Digital Organizer and Evaluator
Olivia Bass - Director of ABC (African, Black, Caribbean) Services
Marcella Camara - Healthcare Program Specialist
Beth Chartrand - Director of Grants and Data
Nicole Feehan - Director of Training
Carianne Fisher - Executive Director
Alexana Garcia - Director of Operations
Trishana Jones - Director of Youth Exposure to DV and Special Projects
Kathleen Lockwood - Policy Director
Jenny Lor - Adminstrative Specialist
Bonnie Louthan - Financial Specialist
Molly McCambridge - Prevention Specialist
Taylour Neal - Director of Campus Services
adé Oni - Survivor Wellbeing Co-Director
Bria Pearson - Teen Services Coordinator
Jessica Perkins - Director of Technical Assistance
Natalie Pickett - Director of Member Services
MariSol Rivera - Financial Specialist
Cassandra Rowe - Survivor Wellbeing Co-Director
Elizabeth Sager - Evaluation Coordinator
Kimani Smith - Training Specialist
Rebecca Swofford - Director of Prevention
Nisha Williams - Legal Director
Ruhani Amin, Digital Organizer and Evaluator
Call Ruhani at 919-768-2017.
Ruhani Amin is the Digital Organizer and Evaluator on the Violence Prevention Team at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
She is also a self-driven student at UNC-Greensboro, working towards a master’s degree in Information Systems Management with a concentration in Business Analytics. Ruhani has a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Montana State University. She completed one year of medical school at the University of Washington School of Medicine before withdrawing from her studies to focus on family. Ruhani was a stay-at-home mother for nine years. During that time, she founded an e-commerce business all while working in the margins of time as a full-time mother of three. This experience inspired her interest in digital marketing and data analytics.
Ruhani has first-hand experience with intimate partner violence, and is a passionate advocate for families and children affected by oppression and patriarchy. Ruhani is able to bring her personal and professional skills to support NCCADV's mission to dismantle social norms that allow offenders to perpetrate violence against marginalized individuals.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Olivia Bass, Director of African, Black, Caribbean (ABC) Services
Call Olivia at 919-956-9124, ext. 201.
Olivia Bass is the Director of African, Black, Caribbean (ABC) Services and the co-director of the Culturally Specific and Youth Services (CSYS) Team.
Olivia earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology and her Master's in Social Work with a concentration in social innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She discovered her passion about violence prevention during her undergraduate career. She first started volunteering at the local rape crisis center supporting prevention education for adolescents and their families. This passion evolved to focusing on a career of social work by providing direct client services, support group facilitation, crisis management, and support to local bar staff about alcohol-facilitated sexual assault and sexual health and relationship education.
The Culturally Specific and Youth Services (CSYS) team facilitates the program development of culturally-specific work centered in identity affirmation, intracultural resources, and strategies to enhance DVSPs/allied professionals' capacity to improve service delivery. We identify culturally-specific as communities historically marginalized or underserved in the DV/IPV movement, including but not limited to, African/Black/Caribbean (ABC), children, teens, and those with linguistic needs to equitably access services.
The Director of African, Black, Caribbean (ABC) Services continues the work of ABC services and co-lead language access in addition to supporting teen programming with the teen services and evaluation specialist. ABC services is the continuation of The Nia Program, which focuses on the cultural values, tropes, and worries that often act as barriers that prevent ABC IPV survivors from seeking formal assistance. With the support of community-based organizations, DVSPs, and culturally-specific organizations, Olivia raises awareness about IPV resources and services that are available to ABC survivors, starting in Halifax, Edgecombe, and Nash counties while expanding to other counties across the state in the next two years.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Marcella Camara Healthcare Program Specialist
Call Marcella at 919-956-9124, ext. 302.
Marcella (Mars) Camara is the Healthcare Program Specialist at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
She is a Liberian-American creative, cultural organizer, and public health advocate with a passion for reproductive justice and birth work. Marcella earned her Bachelor's of Science in Public Health Studies with a concentration in Community Health from East Carolina University. During her undergraduate career, she became passionate about student organizing and the intersection of art, wellness, and equity.
After college she worked as a field organizer for multiple political campaigns focused on anti-racism, voter suppression, and community wellness in North Carolina. Prior to her time at NCCADV, Marcella spent over two years in youth advocacy and programming while working with Triangle based teen centers and Parks and Recreation. She also spent time researching Reproductive Health outcomes and studying birth work with a specific focus on black women, femmes, and mothers of colors. Marcella is a curator, doula, and tribe member of Spirithouse which has allowed her to center her passion for organizing public wellness and self-care projects for communities of color. The span of her career has centered using arts, culture, and anti-oppression praxis to center public wellness in her beloved hometown of Durham, and she brings over 5 years of experience working within health systems at multiple intersections. Marcella came to NCCADV to continue the work of creating equitable and dynamic public health standards that consider the diversity in experiences in the lives of women, femmes, and the most marginalized.
Her work with NCCADV centers strengthening partnerships between health care systems and domestic violence agencies in order to provide trauma informed care to survivors of IPV throughout North Carolina.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Beth Chartrand, Director of Grants and Data
Call Beth at 919-956-9124, ext. 207.
Beth Chartrand is the Director of Grants and Data at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Beth earned a BS in Psychology from Kutztown University, as well as a MA in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University focusing on Juvenile Justice.
Before joining NCCADV, Beth worked for the Department of Public Safety where she focused on crime victim’s services in the NCSAVAN program and as a Grants Management Specialist. Additional experience also includes direct services in juvenile justice and child protective services in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and cold case review project for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC. As the Database Coordinator, Beth focuses on providing a database that will ease reporting and tracking for all North Carolina DV and SA agencies.
Nicole Feehan, Director of Training
Call Nicole at 919-956-9124, ext. 303.
Nicole Feehan, M.S., LCMHCA, is the Director of Training at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In that role, Nicole implements the NCCADV’s Training Program for the improvement of individual and organizational capacity. This includes delivering on-site and specialized trainings to NCCADV members, and the public. Additionally, Nicole is responsible for planning and implementing the biennial conference.
Prior to her current role at the Coalition, Nicole served survivors in higher education through prevention and response initiatives. She has also worked in community based mental health, focusing primarily on individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, including folks in recovery from substance-related dependencies.
Nicole has a Master’s degree in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers and xe/xem/xyr
Carianne Fisher, Executive Director
Call Carianne at 919-956-9124, ext. 202.
Carianne Fisher is the Executive Director at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She began her career as a weekend advocate at the Kathy J. Weinman Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence in St. Louis. Carianne was a part of the team at the largest private child welfare agency in Illinois for over 16 years – first in direct service as a Family Counselor in a program serving youth who ran away from home or were locked out by their parents in Southern Illinois and later as Training Coordinator, Director of Professional Education and Training, and finally as Director of Human Resources and Training.
Carianne’s experience also includes serving as the Human Resources Manager for a skilled nursing facility in suburban Chicago, as a Field Consultant for the University of Chicago, and as the Director of Training at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago. Before coming to NCCADV, Carianne served as the first Executive Director of Therapet in Tyler, TX.
Carianne received a B.A. in English Literature and an MSW with a concentration in Women’s Issues from Washington University in St Louis.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Alexana Garcia, Director of Operations
Call Alexana at 919-956-9124, ext. 200.
Alexana Garcia is the Director of Operations for the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Alexana received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her Master's in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). Prior to joining NCCADV, Alexana worked at the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) at UNC Chapel Hill, first as the Literacy Programs Director where she managed the America Reads and Counts program and later as the Executive Director. She also has previous experience as programming staff at a community-based adult literacy organization and as administrative staff in the human resources department of a community college. She has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector and is excited to support the work of NCCADV with her skills in office management, program management, human resources, and communications.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Trishana Jones, Director of Youth Exposure to DV and Special Projects
Call Trishana at 919-956-9124, ext. 205.
Trishana Jones is the Director of Youth Exposure to DV and Special Projects that supervises NCCADV’s system response programs consisting of the Latinx Program, Healthcare Program, Osnium and the CASE Project. She is dedicated to the system response programs being current and aligned with the ever-emerging needs of survivors and domestic violence service providers.
She has a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Clark Atlanta University and attained a Master of Social Work degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a concentration on Children and Families Direct Practice. Trishana was specially trained to work with children and families involved with child welfare services through the North Carolina Child Welfare Education Collaborative Scholar Program while at UNC-Chapel Hill. Trishana brings 17 years of human services experience of supporting adults, children and families in the areas of domestic violence, child welfare and child advocacy. In her previous role at NCCADV, Trishana managed the Child Advocacy and Services Enhancement (CASE) Project. The CASE Project continues to focus its efforts on increasing awareness of the effects of child exposure to domestic violence; enhancing the capacity of advocates and allied professionals to serve children and teens in a trauma-responsive manner; providing technical assistance and training on child exposure to domestic violence and teen dating violence; and engaging in collaborations tasked with goals to improve outcomes for children and teens in the state of North Carolina.
Kathleen Lockwood, Policy Director
Call Kathleen at 919-956-9124, ext. 209.
Kathleen Lockwood is the Policy Director at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In this role, she oversees NCCADV's Legislative Agenda and provides policy training and technical assistance to professionals and survivors that interact with survivors across NC.
Kathleen is originally from Welcome, North Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree in Women's Studies and English from the University of North Carolina in 2011 and received her Juris Doctorate from UNC School of Law in 2015. Kathleen has worked directly with survivors of domestic violence in various capacities over the years as an intern with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Crisis Intervention Unit, a part-time Shelter Manager at Family Services of Davidson County, a Guardian ad Litem in Davidson County, and a volunteer with the Children’s Law Center of Central North Carolina. Kathleen previously worked as a Staff Attorney at NCCADV representing domestic violence survivors in protective order cases in Orange County.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Jenny Lor, Administrative Specialist
Jenny Lor is the Administrative Specialist at NCCADV where she is a member of the Operations and Finance team.
Jenny has over a decade of experience providing direct services to domestic violence and sexual assault survivors. Jenny started working with survivors in 2007 as a legal advocate in a rape crisis center, since then she has worked with families and individuals affected by domestic violence in a shelter environment, she has staffed and managed local and national hotlines, and has provided technical assistance and referral services to legal advocates around interstate custody issues. Jenny has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Portland State University in Oregon.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Bonnie Louthan, Financial Specialist
Call Bonnie at 919-956-9124, ext. 208.
Bonnie Louthan is a Financial Specialist for the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Currently, Bonnie’s focus is accounts payable and payroll, including but not limited to maintenance of all vendor files and posting of expense allocations.
Bonnie has over 20 years of experience related to the daily operations of accounting and office management for a small office and has always been committed to dedication and detail in her work. Prior to joining NCCADV, she was responsible for the accounting and financial aspects for several private construction firms over the years.
Molly McCambridge, Prevention Specialist
Call Molly at 919-956-9124
Molly McCambridge is the Prevention Specialist at NCCADV. Molly has worked in the anti-domestic and sexual violence movement dating back to serving as Co-Chair of their university’s Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Since then, they have staffed local rape crisis center hotlines and provided hospital response advocacy services to sexual violence survivors.
Molly has a particular passion for creating access to care, support, and joy for children and families. Toward this effort, they have provided behavioral support to Preschool classrooms, facilitated child sexual abuse prevention programming in PreK – 5th Grade classrooms, and provided therapeutic care to children and adolescents in residential treatment for eating disorders, with a focus on family programming and movement therapy.
In addition to her work with NCCADV, Molly co-facilitates weekly Partner Abuse Intervention groups for men through a transformative justice framework. They also serve as a steward of mutual aid collective Feed Durham NC’s work to eradicate food insecurity in Durham and beyond.
Personal pronouns: she/her/they/them
Taylour Neal, Director of Campus Services
Call Taylour at 919-956-9124, ext. 232.
Taylour Neal is currently serving as the Director of Campus Services at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her passion for victim advocacy stems from her previous work experience at the Guilford County Family Justice Center and as the Project Coordinator for Bennett College’s OVW Campus Grantee Program. Her previous roles have included crisis intervention, education, prevention and advocacy for students, policy creation and revision, facilitating faculty/staff, title IX and student trainings about the issues of sexual violence, domestic/dating violence and stalking.
Taylour received her Masters of Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is currently a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (LPC-A). Taylour Neal’s professional goals include helping local, regional and national initiatives acknowledge the intersectionality of race and gender-based violence while promoting the importance of mental health for survivors of trauma.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
adé Oni, Survivor Wellbeing Co-Director
Bria Pearson, Teen Services Coordinator
Bria Pearson is the Teen Services Coordinator at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In this role Bria develops and implements all aspects of NCCADV’s Teen services. This includes NCCADV’s Teen Advisory Board, Teen Dating Violence Training, and providing technical assistance to professionals and community members who want to support teens. As a member of the Culturally Specific and Youth Services Team at NCCADV, Bria also supports the African, Black, and Caribbean Survivors Program and the CASE Project.
Bria’s enthusiasm for empowering teens to have healthy relationships stems from over seven years of experience working with youth and in the DV field. Prior to joining NCCADV, Bria worked at the local domestic violence and sexual assault agency of Wake County in North Carolina. While at the local DV/SA agency, Bria was a prevention education specialist and an outreach case manager. Her experiences included teaching students about TDV and healthy relationships, managing crisis lines, and supporting the domestic violence survivor support group. Bria’s experience with youth work also includes the Alexander YMCA, Southeast Raleigh Promise, and other teen-serving non-profits in the Triangle.
Bria Pearson received her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is during her time at NCSU that she began volunteering at the NC State Women’s Center and eventually joined their first cohort of peer educators with The Movement, NC State’s group of trained interpersonal violence peer educators. Bria Pearson is passionate about supporting teens navigating teen dating violence and empowering them to have healthy relationships to end the cycle of domestic violence.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Jessica Perkins, Director of Technical Assistance
Call Jessica at 919-956-9124, ext. 206.
Jessica Perkins is the Director of Technical Assistance at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Jessica earned her BA in International Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies from Spelman College and her Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining NCCADV, Jessica worked in community based domestic and sexual violence organizations both in North Carolina and Washington State. Jessica has developed and implemented LGBTQ services programs; worked as a court advocate assisting survivors with filing domestic violence protection orders; worked as a community advocate providing direct services to LGBTQ survivors of domestic and sexual violence; provided trainings and technical assistance to local and national domestic and sexual violence agencies; and wrote curricula on preventing violence in LGBTQ communities.
As the Director of Technical Assistance, Jessica supports domestic violence service providers and allied professionals to better serve survivors of domestic violence.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Natalie Pickett, Director of Member Services
Call Natalie at 919-956-9124, ext. 213.
Natalie Pickett is the Director of Member Services at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Natalie earned her B.S. in Child and Family Studies from Louisiana State University and her Master of Social Work Degree from Appalachian State University. Before joining NCCADV, Natalie worked in community-based non-profit programming in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Natalie has been a parenting home visitor, homeless outreach worker, housing advocate, and youth enrichment coordinator.
As the Director of Member Services, Natalie facilitates member engagement and peer-learning opportunities, helps members understand the full scope of benefits available to them with membership, and assists individuals and organizations in becoming Coalition members.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
MariSol Rivera, Financial Specialist
Call Marisol at 919-956-9124, ext. 227.
Marisol is a Financial Specialist for the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She relocated from New Jersey, bringing to our agency over twenty eight years of Administrative Experience. In New Jersey she worked for a non-profit organization as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of the agency. The agency helped the local community with Legal services, Education, Social services and Adult Daycare for senior citizens.
Marisol also worked in retail as an Administrative Assistant, for twenty five years in the Logistic Department, which serviced their entire east coast stores. She was responsible for billing, customer service, scheduling and many more. She attended Bergen county Community College and obtained a medical billing license. She was a volunteer in her church teaching religious first grade classes for two years before moving to North Carolina.
Cassandra Rowe, Survivor Wellbeing Co-Director
Call Cassandra at 919-956-9124, ext. 233.
Cassandra (Cassie) Rowe is NCCADV’s Co-Director of Survivor Wellbeing. Since 2015, she has led NCCADV’s programming on the intersection of IPV and health, and is now focused on survivor housing as well. Cassie earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill in 2014. Prior to working at NCCADV, she had experience working as a sexual assault crisis counselor at the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), and public health researcher at the UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Population Services International (PSI) and Palladium. Cassie is also a multimedia artist in Durham.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Elizabeth Sager, Prevention Evaluation Coordinator
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Sager, MPH, is the evaluation coordinator for the Violence Prevention team at NCCADV. She earned her Master of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has 10 years of experience with local, statewide, and international IPV prevention initiatives with both youth and adults. Lizzie is passionate about ensuring that the best practices from these programs are evaluated well and shared widely. She has a particular interest in youth-centered violence prevention programming, having managed and evaluated sport for development programs affecting refugee and rural youth in East Africa and Southeast Asia through Soccer Without Borders and Kids Play International.
Lizzie has previously worked at the coalition with both the Children’s Advocacy, Services and Enhancement (CASE) and Healthcare programs. She was excited to return to the organization as part of the Prevention Team to evaluate programmatic and policy level prevention interventions.
Outside of work hours you’ll probably find Lizzie running or supporting local running and youth enrichment programs.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Kimani Smith, Training Specialist
Rebecca Swofford, Director of Prevention
Call Rebecca at 919-956-9124, ext. 225.
Rebecca Swofford is the Director of Prevention at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Rebecca earned her BA in Psychology with minors in Sociology and Dance from Appalachian State University. She also earned her Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Community, Management, and Policy Practice and the Non-profit Leadership Certificate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill. Rebecca has been engaged in anti-domestic and sexual violence work for many years in a variety of capacities including campus-based bystander programming, direct crisis intervention and advocacy, support group facilitation, coordinated community response work, and state-level campus policy research. Prior to doing state level prevention work at NCCADV, she was part of the NCCADV training staff and focused on training development and facilitation as well as running the training and conference planning and logistics. In her role as the Director of Prevention, she manages the DELTA program (NCCADV’s state level prevention program) and guides the trauma-informed organizational policy effort and the local community based prevention efforts.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers
Nisha Williams, Legal Director
Call Nisha at 919-956-9124, ext. 222.
Nisha G. Williams is a licensed North Carolina attorney. She earned a BA in History from Southern Adventist University in 2006 and a JD from NCCU School of Law in 2009. Nisha began representing domestic violence survivors while working with the NCCU School of Law Domestic Violence Legal Clinic where she assisted survivors in obtaining restraining orders in Durham County.
Before joining NCCADV, Attorney Williams worked as the Managing Attorney for the Law Office of Nisha G. Williams PLLC working with families in crisis in Raleigh/Durham and surrounding counties. She has assisted survivors of domestic violence not only obtain restraining orders, but also in custody and divorce mediation and litigation. Attorney Williams is also a passionate advocate for her community. She is a member and the current chairwoman of the Durham County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council. She volunteers with Organizing Against Racism (OAR) Durham in organizing racial equity trainings in the Durham community.
As the Legal Director, Attorney Williams oversees legal training and technical assistance to survivors, domestic violence services providers, and allied professionals across the state.
Personal pronouns: she/her/hers