Victim Advocates & Partners

Steven Kelly 2011 Legal Advocacy Award NCVLI is proud to honor Attorney Steven Kelly with the 2011 Legal Advocacy Award for his tireless legal advocacy to enforce victims’ rights. NCVLI’s Outstanding Achievement Awards recognize attorneys, advocates, and organizations...

Sarah Hays Summer Intern Sarah Hays is a dual degree candidate in Law and Conflict & Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon School of Law who interned with NCVLI’s Safeguarding Child-Victims’ Rights Initiative during the summer of 2011.  We were pleased to...

Jacqueline Swanson Outstanding Volunteer Jacqueline Swanson is a first law student intern who served as one of NCVLI’s 2010-2011 Violence Against Women Project Law Student Interns. Jacqueline brought an inspiring passion for victims’ rights to her work and used this...

Anne Seymour 2011 Victim Advocacy Award Anne Seymour is the 2011 winner of NCVLI’s Victim Advocacy Award for her commitment to advancing victims’ rights.  NCVLI’s Outstanding Achievement Awards recognize attorneys, advocates, and organizations that have made...

Colette McEldowney Law Student Profile Colette McEldowney is a second year law student who began interning with NCVLI in the fall of 2010.  Colette has worked on a wide range of victims’ rights legal work from performing a state survey of statute of limitations on...

Sylvia Golden Outstanding Pro Bono Attorney NAVRA member Sylvia Golden joined NCVLI in December 2010 as a pro bono attorney. Sylvia comes to NCVLI with a background in immigration law and criminal defense work.  She was drawn to NCVLI because of our policy work in the...

Fall 2010 Clinic Class Researches Important Victims’ Rights Issues Lewis & Clark Law School students did fantastic work on important issues for victims in the fall 2010 semester.    NCVLI Attorneys Meg Garvin, Terry Campos, and Alison Wilkinson taught the...

Amanda Tufts Outstanding Volunteer Amanda Tufts is a first year law student intern who served as one of NCVLI’s 2010-2011 Violence Against Women Project Law Student Interns.  Amanda brought an incredible level of skill to her work as a researcher and writer and...

Thomas Ross Caldwell Volunteer “I volunteered at NCVLI the summer after my first year of law school and it was definitely the most interesting law-related experience I have had so far.  Victims’ rights is a very exciting area of the law because it is so quickly...

Gina Atwood Pro Bono Gina Atwood recently joined the team at NCVLI/NAVRA to provide pro bono assistance to victims of sex trafficking who are seeking restitution.  Gina grew up in Roseburg, Oregon, but has lived in the South Pacific, the Middle East, Central America,...

Steve Doell Victim Advocacy Award A native Oregonian, Steve Doell has been a crime victims advocate since 1994. NCVLI’s Legal Advocacy Award recognizes crime victims’ rights attorneys who have dedicated and committed their time to representing victims of crime in the...

Cristina Ursan Volunteer Cristina is a paralegal volunteer who has donated more hours to NCVLI than any volunteer in NCVLI’s history.  She has spent considerable time assisting with grant reporting in addition to helping build the foundation of NCVLI’s upcoming...