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Alejandra Aguilar
Program Specialist

alejandra@cpedv.org | Alejandra Aguilar, gender pronouns: she/her/hers, Mexico-Americana, and formerly undocumented, is the Public Policy Specialist for the Partnership where she brings over 19 years of diverse experience working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, fully committed to the improvement of state level prevention efforts. And while now it is very clear that this is what Alejandra was born to do, she did not always know that this work was for her.

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Lupe Cox
Administrative Assistant

lupe@cpedv.org | Lupe performs all administrative tasks and oversees the Partnership’s daily business operations.  Her areas of expertise include finance/accounting, travel planning, data entry, and IT support. She has 12 years’ administrative experience in the private sector, and has been working for non-profit organizations for the past 4 years.

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Michell Franklin, M.A.
Capacity Building Program Manager

michell@cpedv.org | Michell has been in social services for 25 years. After attaining her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, she began working with underrepresented populations in the Bay Area.Upon graduation from U.C. Berkeley, Michell was voted the recipient of the Louise Patterson African American Female Graduate of the Year for her social services work on campus and in the Bay Area community.

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Melissa Guajardo
Administrative Director

melissa@cpedv.org | Melissa Guajardo, MPH has over 15 years experience in non-profit management. She received her Masters in Public Health from Boston University and has spent the years since learning about non-profit administration and leadership while working on issues ranging from HIV prevention, nutrition, social justice and food access.

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Cibonay Jimenez
Capacity Building Program Coordinator

cibonay@cpedv.org | Cibonay Jimenez (formerly Cordova) has over 20 years of professional experience in the Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Mental Health, Social Services, Health Care, and Substance Abuse fields. Cibonay’s passion for this work derives from her rich history and experience as a DV/SA survivor and Native (Cazan Guamares/Yaqui)/Chicana woman.

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Jacquie Marroquin
Director of Programs

jacquie@cpedv.org | Jacquie Marroquin began her work in the violence against women movement in 2001 working with domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in the Central Valley. Jacquie has managed programs, provided domestic violence, sexual assault and anti-oppression trainings at local, statewide and national levels.

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Jessica Merrill
Communications Manager

jessica@cpedv.org | Jessica Merrill is the Communications Manager at the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (the Partnership). Her goal is to create a rich, engaging dialogue across California to increase knowledge of domestic violence as a public health crisis–and to promote comprehensive solutions that everyone can participate in. By providing communications tools to the Partnership’s member programs and all Californians, she works to shift social norms that contribute to domestic violence through social and traditional media advocacy.

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Kathy Moore, MSW
Executive Director

kathy@cpedv.org | Kathy Moore has worked in the domestic violence and sexual assault movement for nearly 25 years. After serving as Executive Director for a dual DV and SA organization in Oregon, Kathy relocated to California in 2005, where she continued her work in the field serving as an independent consultant assisting domestic violence and sexual assault programs with organizational development activities, meeting facilitation, grant proposals, curriculum development and training projects, and other capacity-building contracts.

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Krista Niemczyk, MPP
Public Policy Manager

krista@cpedv.org | Krista Niemczyk is the Public Policy Manager for the Partnership where she represents domestic violence programs throughout California at various government agencies, including the California State legislature. Through this advocacy, Krista ensures that the voices of domestic violence programs and survivors are heard and reflected in public policies.

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Christine Smith
Public Policy Coordinator

christine@cpedv.org | Christine Smith has a Masters in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco with a concentration in health care. She also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Allison Stelly
Development Coordinator

allison@cpedv.org | Allison Stelly, CFRE, has been working in fund development since 2010, with an emphasis on social change organizations. Her previous experiences raising funds for nonprofit media and social services coalesce well into her new role for the Partnership, and she is excited to work towards a California free of domestic violence. She is presently pursuing her Master’s of Nonprofit Management through Regis University.

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Miranda Stiers
Capacity Building Program Specialist

miranda@cpedv.org | Miranda began working in the movement to stop domestic violence and sexual assault fourteen years ago. During this time she has provided services for survivors, worked in collaboratives with county organizations, managed programs and provided domestic violence, sexual assault and LGBTQI inclusion trainings.

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Mercedes Tune
Capacity-Building Program Specialist

mercedes@cpedv.org | Mercedes works as a Capacity Building Project Specialist at the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. She brings to the Partnership a broad and rich international perspective on cultural dynamics and social justice, based on her experience with diverse populations in Mexico and the USA. She has been a community organizer, a manager of Education and Health affairs for refugee populations, and a project designer consultant.

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Christina Wukmir
Administrative Coordinator

christina@cpedv.org | Christina Wukmir is the Administrative Coordinator for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. Originally from New York City, she relocated to Sacramento in 2009 to obtain her bachelor’s degree, graduating magna cum laude from California State University, Sacramento.

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