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Jillian Durancik joined InStepp's Board of Directors in October 2018 and currently serves as the Chair of the Organizational Development Committee.   She studied history at UNC Charlotte before finishing a second BS in Business Admin at UNC Greensboro. She then completed an MBA at Wake Forest University in 2018.  Born in the suburbs of Chicago, she grew up in Asheville, NC …Read More >

Students who have become increasingly exposed to domestic violence at home due to widespread school closures to combat COVID-19 are facing some unique challenges?  Click here to read this teacher's perspective in Education Week. …Read More >

This article, published in partnership with The Guardian, illuminate the unique problems of fatal female victims of COVID-19 in prison, and the all-too-common ways they get there in the first place.  Read the full article here by  Cary Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger and Joseph Neff. …Read More >

Jessica Simmons began volunteering with InStepp's Board of Directors in 2018 and currently serves as the Board's secretary.   She attended Marshall University where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in accounting and finance. For most of her professional career, Jessica has helped nonprofits with accounting and works today as  an Audit …Read More >

The COVID-19 health crisis is giving society an opportunity to examine a destructive, expensive, punitive system and transform it into one that could be just, restorative, and good for individuals and society as a whole.  Click here to read the full article by Zoe Weil published by Common Dreams. …Read More >

Movement restrictions aimed to stop the spread of the coronavirus may be making violence in homes more frequent, more severe and more dangerous. Click here to read the complete article by Amanda Taub in the New York Times. …Read More >