Tiombe Preston
Marriage and Family Therapist
Program Manager
California Black Women's Health Project

Ms. Preston will facilitate the workshop on Sexual Assault, scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Tiombe Preston is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 12 years experience as a feminist therapist, educator, and activist. As the owner of a private practice and consulting business, she provides individual and group therapy, consultation on curriculum and program development, clinical supervision, oppression/diversity training, clinical training, and speaking engagements for social services, universities, youth programs, crisis services, and counselor/mentor certification courses. Her specializations include feminist therapy, sexual and domestic violence advocacy for people with disabilities, communities of color, and other anti-oppression work. She provides many of these services as Clinical Coordinator for the YWCA Sexual Assault Crisis Services in Compton . She is also the Program Manager for the California Black Women's Health Project where she directs projects to end health disparities for Black women and girls in California and manages a statewide Advocate Training Program that trains health policy activists and educators, on issues including health, mental health, reproductive justice, anti- sexual and domestic violence, and public policy initiatives. She is a Core Faculty member of the California Victim Assistance Academy at California State University (CSU) Fresno and teaches part time in the Master's in Counseling program at CSU Long Beach.