Corrine Sanchez

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Executive Director, Tewa Women United

Status: 
Active
Term Start: 
2019
Term End: 
2021

Bio:

Dr. Corrine Sanchez of San Ildefonso Pueblo is Executive Director of Tewa Women United and has many years of sexual assault intervention and prevention training. She completed her doctorate at Arizona State University in Justice Studies. She has worked in the sexual violence field for 20 years and helped refine Tewa Women United’s awareness and healing intervention, “Trauma Rocks”. Dr. Sanchez has been part of the co-creation process of building Indigenous Knowledge through the contribution of TWU’s Research Methodology and Theory of Opide, a braiding of practice to action. Dr. Sanchez was one of sixteen visionary leaders across the country selected as the first cohort of the Move to End Violence. She served on the National Tribal Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Taskforce to look at policy development for child sexual abuse investigations in Indian Country.