Speakers

Antonia Vann
Founder and CEO

Asha Family Services

Antonia A. Vann, CEO, a Nationally Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, is CEO and founder of Asha Family Services, Inc., a comprehensive family violence intervention and prevention agency located in Milwaukee, WI. Asha, the first and only recognized culturally specific family violence intervention and prevention program in the State of Wisconsin, employs methods specific to many African American, Latino, and Native families. Asha is a private, non-profit, spiritually based agency. Ms. Vann, a formerly battered wife and survivor, began studying violence against women and children since 1985. Ms. Vann researched and developed Asha's programming through her life experiences, listening to authentic experiences of "like" women, her spiritual convictions, and training under the guidance of an academic board of directors and host of national recognized experts in the field.