Victim Advocates & Partners

Scout Brobst Intern Scout is a recent high school graduate who is taking a gap year. She spent her years in high school dedicated to activism within her community and internationally through an online platform. Scout currently works at a local Women’s Center in the...

Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner PC Pro Bono Based in Portland, Oregon, Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner PC handles all aspects of litigation, from pre-suit demand through trial and appeal. The firm’s founders - FJ Maloney, Andy Lauersdorf, and Tony Reiner - are former prosecutors...

Pauliina Heikkonen Intern Pauliina visited from Finland to intern with NCVLi in the Winter of 2016 and will be beginning law school later this year.  She told us a little about her experience as an intern at NCVLI. What did you know about victims’ rights before...

Lisa Zauner Board Spotlight Lisa Zauner is an Audit Senior Manager at Perkins & Company. Why did you first get interested in working with NCVLI and victims’ rights?In my early twenties while serving in the Army I was the victim in an armed robbery. The experience,...

Jennifer Storm Board Spotlight Jennifer Storm is an award-winning author who serves as the Victim Advocate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Why did you first get interested in working with NCVLI and victims’ rights?I met Meg at an OVC training in South Carolina...

Dmitriy Golosinskiy Volunteer Dmitriy Golosinskiy began volunteering for NCVLI in the Fall of 2014 during his first year at Lewis & Clark School of Law.  He told us a little about his experience as a volunteer at NCVLI. What did you know about victims’ rights...

Randall Udelman Pro Bono Attorney Pro bono attorneys play an invaluable role in NCVLI’s work protecting, enforcing, and advancing victims’ rights.  Randall Udelman, an attorney in Arizona, has partnered with us to provide a considerable amount of pro bono legal...

Johanna Costa 2015 Gail Burns-Smith Excellence in Victim Services Award Johanna Costa is the Director of Victim Services at the Washington County District Attorney’s Office in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she leads a team of 20 staff and volunteer advocates in supporting...

Tegan Waring Intern Tegan Waring is one of NCVLI’s Summer Interns and will start her junior year at Smith College this fall. Tegan Waring just completed her sophomore year at Smith College in Massachusetts studying women’s studies and public policy. She is interested...

Carrie Hull 2015 Victims’ Rights Partnership Award Carrie Hull, a Detective with the Ashland Police Department and Director of the You Have Options Program, has facilitated a victim-centered and offender-focused approach to sexual violence at the Department that has...

Network for Victim Recovery of DC 2015 Legal Advocacy Award The Network for Victim Recovery of DC’s legal program started in 2012 with just one full time and one half time attorney and in three years has expanded to a total of seven attorneys who have served over 500...

Janis Puracal Board Member Janis C. Puracal is an appellate attorney at Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner PC.  Ms. Puracal received a BA from New York University in 2001 and a JD from Seattle University School of Law in 2007.  Ms. Puracal served as a judicial clerk in a...