Kristie M. Traver is a Program Specialist with the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC). In this role, she provides training and technical assistance (TTA) to Tribes and others in developing and enhancing culturally specific, trauma-informed, and victim-centered services for Alaska Native victims and survivors. Kristie has provided TTA in the field for 6 years having previously worked with other national TTA organizations. Prior to her TTA work, she spent more than 15 years in direct victim services in rural and isolated communities and more than 20 years in the not-for-profit human services field working in various roles such as community outreach and awareness, fund development and grants management, and program development and operations. Kristie is a mother and grandmother who currently resides on the lands of the De’naina people in Anchorage, Alaska.