Marcie Davis

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Marcie Davis is an internationally acclaimed victim assistance and disability advocate, speaker, author, and social entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience. She has held pivotal roles, including chief of victim services and Victims of Crime Act grants management for the Florida Attorney General’s Office, and established the inaugural Victim Services division within the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General. As chief executive officer of La Casa, Inc. (a comprehensive domestic violence organization on the United States–Mexico border) and founder of Davis Innovations (an organizational consulting firm), Ms. Davis collaborates with governmental and nongovernmental entities to develop and implement innovative solutions in program development, training, grant writing, and research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Paralegal Studies and a master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Southern Mississippi. Ms. Davis is also the founder of Working Like Dogs, an organization dedicated to educating people about assistance dogs, and is accompanied by her service dog, Fenway.

Rebecca Balog

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania    

Rebecca Balog is a survivor advocate with more than 25 years of experience working to end violence and promote healthy relationships. She is a senior training and technical assistance (TTA) specialist with OVC TTAC. As former manager of the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg’s Violence Intervention and Prevention Department, she conducted and supervised direct services, oversaw hotline and hotline staff, and served as a first contact for homelessness intervention, case management, employment, and financial life skills classes. She also served as liaison for the board and junior board and provided training for partner organizations via Dauphin County, Pennsylvania’s Diversity Forum.



Through the Women of Color Network (WOCN), Ms. Balog served as the administrative director, managing grants and compliance. She specialized in TTA, developing and delivering leadership trainings for the WOCN Institute on grant/fiscal management, mentorship, compliance, confidentiality, strategic planning, trauma-informed practices, and board development.

Through the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, she provided grant compliance management and TTA around domestic violence, sexual assault, youth leadership projects, men and boys intervention, and murdered and missing Indigenous people. She oversaw grant management and compliance as the youth project (NativeLove Initiative) team lead and served as managing liaison to the board of directors.

At the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition and Mending the Sacred Hoop tribal coalition, she provided TTA for two human trafficking projects: (1) the Office on Violence Against Women’s Sex Trafficking in Indian Country and Alaska, and (2) Project Beacon. She also conducted program development, wrote grants and grant reports, developed training materials, and provided TTA on specialized capacities around Indigenous and youth-led community responses in Indian Country. Ms. Balog earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Women’s Studies, is a published author, and serves on many anti-violence-based boards.