One in Three Women

Evelyn Brom has been a strategic planner and advocate in the field of violence against women for thirty years. For the last six years she has managed a five million dollar Federal Violence Against Women Act grant for the City of Seattle .

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Ms. Brom’s extensive experience includes strategic planning, project development, and project management to shape community and government responses to violence against women, managing a multi-million dollar Federal budget, writing successful grant proposals and concept papers, and writing and monitoring contracts She recently coordinated a comprehensive domestic violence assessment, which included completion of a misdemeanor prosecution “Domestic Violence Safety and Accountability Audit,” and eight additional domestic violence assessment reports related to police investigations, firearms forfeiture in domestic violence cases, multilingual access issues, and court processes and outcomes. In 2004, Ms. Brom designed the assessment implementation plan and held a key staffing role in building the next five-year domestic violence strategic plan for the City of Seattle .

As a program manager, Evelyn was responsible for a wide range of projects including planning and implementation of a community-led project on multilingual access issues, systems implementation of firearm forfeiture and seizure policies and procedures, and a successful city workplace domestic violence training program.

Evelyn has experience working with the municipal budget process, in building budget narratives for grant proposals and in promoting fiscal policy to benefit work on violence against women. Among her achievements is planning and development work to secure resources that sustained activities begun with Federal seed monies, including community-based legal advocacy services, language advocacy services, and a domestic violence fugitive apprehension team and firearm forfeiture coordinator.

As a public servant, Ms. Brom has worked within government institutions, non-profit organizations, and in community building efforts to address gender-based violence. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, and supports using critical theory in public service.

As an advocate for justice for women and children she is a strong leader. Evelyn’s early work involved grassroots organizing, and establishing advocacy programs in institutions. She has a broad understanding of the felony and misdemeanor criminal justice responses to cases of domestic and sexual violence as well as community social service system programs. She coordinated a child prostitution project team that included prosecutors, police, child protective services, youth organizations, and sexual assault agencies, producing a monograph called A Community Approach to Child Prostitution . Evelyn served as lead lobbyist for the 1979 Washington State Victims of Sexual Assault Act.

As a trainer, training coordinator, and facilitator, Ms. Brom’s experience is lengthy and varied. She has built advocacy training programs on criminal and civil legal issues, presented national workshops on felony prosecution of domestic violence and community approaches to child prostitution, and facilitated meetings from project management to community conversations. She co-designed an educational program for children who will be testifying in court, called King County Kids’ Court, which has been replicated in jurisdictions worldwide. She has also written curricula for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission for training police officers on sexual assault.

Ms. Brom is profiled in a public administration text, Transformational Public Service: Portraits of Theory in Practice
(2005).