Join Courtney Santana and Sera Bonds for a social action workshop. They will talk about how the rates of intimate partner violence go up significantly during times of crisis and offer three tactical things that you can do to show up for survivors while sheltering in place.
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Courtney Santana is the CEO of The Survive2Thrive Foundation, which provides life support to displaced and homeless victims of domestic violence; Principal of S2T Capital Ventures, LLC, which creates entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for survivors of domestic violence and abuse; and the Managing Partner of SANCTUARY Platform LLC, a firm dedicated to the development of technology used to protect, serve, and enrich the lives of domestic violence survivors. In 2020, Survive2Thrive will deploy an app that will provide resources and access to safe housing options to displaced and homeless victims of domestic violence called SANCTUARY. Her organization has served nearly 5,200 survivors, providing them a path to safety, self sufficiency and success.
From 2006-2013, Courtney served as a lobbyist and policy director for the Texas Council on Family Violence for various pieces of legislation related to domestic violence and Courtney has been a member of the Travis County Family Supervisor’s Group, which monitors law enforcement practices and drives policy and victim advocacy programs.
Since 2007, Courtney has worked with Vice President Biden as a policy reviewer for VAWA and in 2018, she joined the law enforcement task force for The Biden Foundation, as a trusted policy advisor. In 2019, Courtney was appointed District 6 Commissioner to the Human Rights Commission for the City of Austin. Courtney has served on several boards including the fundraising board of SafePlace Shelter, The Cisco Power of Partnerships Coalition, Leadership Austin, HerLegacy Network, and The GFIL Foundation.
Courtney is also gifted nationally known speaker and now author. Her first book, OFF KILTER: Getting “Right” After Abuse was released in August 2018. In May of 2012, she was honored to be the cover of Austin Woman’s Magazine for her work as a vocalist and an advocate of domestic violence. In March 2017, she received a proclamation from Mayor Steve Adler, proclaiming March 3 is Courtney Santana Day in Austin Texas.
Philanthropically, Courtney has won many community service awards including the SXSW Dewey Winburne Award in 2016, the 2018 RecognizeGood Code Of Ethics Award, Austin INNO 50 on Fire Award, and was nominated for the Texas Women In Business Award for a Non Profit and The Austin Woman Magazine's Philanthropist of the Year in 2017.
Courtney is a survivor of domestic violence and abuse and childhood sexual assault. She lives in Austin, Texas, and is wife to her husband Gary, and mom to her two adult children, Kendall, 22 and Brendan, 20.
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