Task Force Staff

Brie Akins, Prevention Program Coordinator

Ms. Akins started with the Task Force in February 2005. She began working in the area of sexual and domestic violence in 1998. She has worked as an advocate in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, as well as in New Zealand. She also coordinated a mentoring program for girls and young women aged 6-18. Her training and experience includes a community engagement approach to violence prevention and outcome-based program evaluation. Ms. Akins has a MA in sociology. Her research examined women's experiences of working in feminist sexual assault and domestic violence organizations.

BB Beltran, Membership & Training Coordinator

Ms. Beltran joined the SATF in July 2004 as an Administrative Assistant and has since been promoted to Membership & Training Coordinator. She has a profound interest in women's issues and, as a woman of color, has faced many adverse situations which have helped to shape her understanding of violence against women. Ms. Beltran has a strong desire to help people and to make a positive difference in the world. She is interested in attending law school and hopes to one day be a prosecutor.

Christine Herrman, Executive Director

Christine Herrman has nearly two decades of working to end violence against women. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1991, Christine returned to her hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska, where she worked as an advocate and Community Services Coordinator for a non-profit domestic violence/sexual assault program. The service area encompassed a geographically large region, with pockets of populations, including Native Alaskans living in isolated villages, and families of logging camp employees living in transient, sometimes floating, company outposts. Christine provided advocacy services to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence and also coordinated the delivery of a sexual violence prevention program for students in elementary through high schools Christine left Alaska in 1996 to attend law school at Duke University. While a student at Duke, Christine founded a sexual assault legal advocacy project between the local rape crisis center and the law school. Christine served as the coordinator of the project and also provided direct advocacy services during her three years of law school. After graduating from law school in 1999, Christine returned to the Pacific Northwest to serve as a prosecutor in Seattle, Washington. There, she concentrated on prosecuting sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, and child homicide. During her time as a prosecutor at the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office Christine spearheaded the coordination of a victim advocacy program for previously unserved crime victims, and was a long-term presenter at Kids' Court, a program for educating child victims and witnesses about what to expect when they come to court.

Alexa Priddy, Response Program Coordinator

Ms. Priddy joined the SATF in July 2008.  She has worked with issues related to sexual violence for 8 years and is committed to ending sexual violence in our culture through training and prevention efforts.  Ms. Priddy has worked as a sexual violence victim advocate, educator, program coordinator and trainer on college campuses and in communities in Wisconsin, Oregon, and Virginia. She has an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona and brings a strong commitment to advancing understandings of gender issues and gender-based violence and discrimination across Oregon.  She is committed to recognizing the intersections of oppressions in our culture and how that impacts perceptions and responses to sexual violence.