About the Author

Kristin Littel is an independent consultant who provides technical assistance on violence against women issues, including information gathering, writing, editing, and meeting planning and facilitation. She was a victim advocate for many years, including acting as an executive director of a sexual assault crisis center, a coordinator of a sexual assault unit, and a sexual assault and domestic violence victim advocate and support group facilitator. She was involved in state sexual assault coalition work as a crisis center representative and executive board member. Since 1996, Littel has consulted with the Office for Victims of Crime, the Office on Violence Against Women, the STOP Violence Against Women Grants Technical Assistance Project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs, the Center for Effective Public Policy, the Finance Project, and the Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault. She also served as a writer for the Center for Sex Offender Management and Washington Crime News Services.