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Anne Bergen-Aurand| Gender-Based Violence Prevention Coordinator Picture

Anne Bergen-Aurand| Gender-Based Violence Prevention Coordinator

Biography:

Anne Bergen-Aurand has worked as a program manager for both Neighborhood Legal Clinics (at the King County Bar Association) and for DAWN (Domestic Abuse Women’s Network). Prior to moving to Seattle, Anne was in Singapore for nine years where she worked for as a manager and trainer for AWARE, a gender equity NGO. She was a co-founder the Sexual Assault Care Centre—Singapore’s first program dedicated specifically to comprehensive sexual assault services. Anne has a master’s degree in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations from the SIT Graduate Institute’s Program in Intercultural Management.

This year, Anne’s focus is to form a community response team to work collaboratively on creating a strategic plan specifically for Violence Against Women (note: this includes all genders).