Marie Taylor was born in California but has been an Alaskan resident for 35 years. She is a mother of three children, six grandchildren and a great grandmother to one grandson. She has worked in the field of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault for 19 years and has worked as a Sexual Assault Responder. Ms. Taylor is also a DV/SA trainer and worked as an advocate in a safe home for six years before she took a job facilitating Alternatives to Violence classes for the offenders. At that time, she facilitated classes for men at the correctional center and for both men and women at her office.

She has been involved with different native women’s coalitions and agencies and also worked with the elders as a planning and development specialist for 3 years. Being a survivor herself along with family suicide and domestic violence is what has given Ms. Taylor the strength and the passion for this work. She has also been involved in teaching pre-school working with three and four-year olds. Ms. Taylor currently works for the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center as their Senior Bookkeeper.

Her goal is to continue this work in order to hopefully bring education, healing and social change within families to inspire violence free living.