NEWS & NOTES
Volume 2: Issue 2
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Dear friends!
We're very excited to announce a new addition to our team. Natalie Brand has joined our National Leadership Council and will be leading our National Media Council and Awards Committee. This award-winning journalist comes to us with experience, passion and commitment to continue working to have a voice for victims of violence and exploitation, we're sure Natalie will make a huge contribution to NWCAVE and our mission!

NWCAVE will be launching our new awards this summer, in addition to our media award, we are adding a new award in the memory of our dear friend and co-founding advisor Rita Burns who lost her battle to cancer last August.  The award in Rita's memory will be chaired by her niece Kami Corbin Schroeder.

In addition to Natalie and Kami, we are pleased to announce our National Leadership Team joining our family this summer! 

>Michelle A. Bart, President and Co-Founder
>Carolyn Pillsbury, Executive Vice-President/Secretary and Co-Founder
>Wanda Costi who has served us as a finance chair will become Treasurer
>Debra K. Adams is our new National Programs and Campaigns Director
>Shelley Shaffer is our Missing Persons & Cold Case Division Director
>Dr. Kathie Mathis is our new Director of the Southern California Region
>Marvalene Broadhead will serve as our Pacific Northwest Region Director
>Natalie Brand will serve as our National Media Council and Awards Director

Donna C. Bart

Kami Schroeder

Kacey Montoya

Araksya Karapetyan

Tra Renee Chambers

Ann Garrett

Ali Lee 

 

NWCAVE has many programs and services on the horizon this summer including:
> Vigil for Missing Woman Kayla Croft Payne in Chehalis, WA
> Flyer Distribution and 21st Birthday for Missing Woman Kara Nichols in Colorado Springs
> Candidate Forum for Clark County Sheriff which we have co-partnered with UniteWomen.org
> Launch of our Take 25 Campaign
> Missing Children's Day in Tumwater, WA
> Presenting at a National Convention on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
> Poke Run from Glendale to Arrowhead, CA
> Dinner & Dreams Gala in July
> Annual Meeting & Retreat for our Leadership Council
 
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We have a DREAM...a World Without Violence & Exploitation and we know you do too!  Thank you for your continued support and together we can make the DREAM a reality!

 

 
Meet Natalie Brand
Natalie is our new Director of the National Media Council and will be installed this summer at our annual meeting.  We thank Kacey Montoya for leading the way the past couple of years and wish her all the best. 
 

Natalie Brand returns to the Valley of the Sun after spending part of her childhood here. She's amazed by how the region has grown and feels honored to be working in such an exciting and diverse community.

  

Her love for television news has taken her up and down the West Coast. Before arriving at 3TV, she reported at Fox 12 in Portland, Ore., covering everything from Occupy Portland to the epidemic of sex trafficking, a topic on which she put together a series of in-depth reports.  Prior to Portland, Natalie's work in California's Coachella Valley at CBS 2 earned her a "Reporter of the Year" award from The Associated Press Television and Radio Association. She also earned a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, a Golden Mike Award and an AP Spot News Award for her breaking-news coverage of a police standoff which unfolded live on the air.   

 

Over the years, Natalie has covered stories that made national headlines including massive wildfires, a tornado, and President Gerald Ford's funeral. She even scored an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he visited California.   

  

Natalie began working in news while still in college at the University of California, San Diego. She graduated with honors from the communications department while also holding a job as an overnight writer and associate producer for the local CBS affiliate.   

  

Natalie is a also honored to be a member of the National Women's Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation Advisory Council the past couple of years serving as the award Chair this past January for the Southwest Conference Against Trafficking.   

  

When she's not looking for the next big story, Natalie can be found on the golf course, sampling new restaurants, volunteering and spending time with family, friends and her two rescue cats, Oliver and Preston.  Read more... 

 

 
NWCAVE in the Media
SWCAT in the Media 

"Voices for Justice" returns in May - catch up by listening to the past shows!

 

 

"Voices for Justice" is a show of the National Women's Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation (NWCAVE) highlighting those that make our world a better place to live through media, community, and lending a helping hand.
  
Past shows:

Black in America

  

  
  
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 and the Take 25 Campaign!
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