Our team

Dawn R. Stover

Executive Director

Cherokee

Germaine Omish-Lucero

Director of Special Projects

Rincon, Band of Luiseño Indians

Raven Word

Communications Director

Apache, Kiowa, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes

Biographies

Dawn R. Stover

Dawn has been honored to use her passion and dedication to become a leading voice in Indian Country to address domestic and sexual violence. Her largest demonstration of this has been her work with the Tribal Coalitions, and her journey to advocate, educate and support Tribal efforts with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Dawn was a founding board member and then director of the Native Alliance Against Violence, Oklahoma’s Tribal Coalition, working alongside and serving the Tribal governments and Tribal victim service programs in Oklahoma. Prior to her work with the Tribal coalitions, Dawn served as the executive director of the Oklahoma Regional Community Policing Institute providing training to Oklahoma’s peace officers, including Tribal officers. Dawn currently serves on various international, trilateral, national, state and local working groups to inform and implement effective public policy to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, particularly as it relates to Tribal communities and impacts Tribal victim survivors, Tribal advocates, and Tribal Coalitions. Dawn resides in Norman, Oklahoma with her gang of rowdy pups, and nearby, her two wonderful grandchildren.

Germaine Omish-Lucero

Germaine Omish-Lucero (Toota poqe$may Little Rock Wren)

Tribal Citizen: (Wa$xanga) Rincon, Band of Luiseño Indians (San Diego County, CA).

Germaine is the Special Projects Director for the Alliance of Tribal Coalitions to End Violence (ATCEV) and has been advocating for the needs of Native victims/survivors for nearly 30 years, aimed at preventing domestic & sexual violence in Tribal communities. Germaine assists the ATCEV technical assistance team, providing training and technical support to the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), the Office on Family Violence Prevention Services (OFVPS), and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Through ATCEV’s NOVO funding, Germaine founded the Indigenous Ancestral Healing Collective (IAHC). The Collective consists of Indigenous Peoples from Turtle Island (USA), Kānaka Maoli (Hawai'i), Māori Aotearoa (New Zealand), Aboriginal (Australia), and Cree (Canada) in the creation of the Indigenous Anthology, a healing journey on how the healing from our ancestral trauma can benefit everyone. She is one of the founding Mothers of ATCEV and the former Vice-President of the board. Germaine graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration. She is one of the founding mothers & former Executive Director of the Strong Hearted Native Women’s Coalition, Inc. (SHNWC), founded in 2005 (CA), which is one of the 21 Tribal Coalitions that assist tribes in creating appropriate tribal resolutions with assistance in identifying and mediating essential changes to reduce crimes covered under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). She is the founding Mother of SHNWC’s Kiicha House (2014), the first Native women’s shelter in Southern California. Germaine sits as a board member representing her tribal reservation for SHNWC. Germaine serves on several boards and is a founding member of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) VAWA Task Force. Germaine is a subject-matter expert/curriculum developer/instructor, contractor/consultant, international speaker, and Tribal delegate, and works with agencies on special projects and presentations. u { text-decoration: underline; }

Raven Word

Raven is a member of the Náishá (Apache Tribe of Oklahoma), and a descendant of the [Gáuigú (Kiowa), Tsistsistas and Hinono’ei (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes). She graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2015 with a BA in Mass Communication- Brand Advertising with a minor in Graphic Design and previously worked at the Native Alliance Against Violence as the Communications Specialist from 2017-2021. She also has experience creating content for the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's social media pages, providing marketing services as an intern for the Paseo Arts District, and has been a freelance designer since 2014. Her freelance design includes websites, logos, digital/print publications, and photography. Raven loves creating all types of art including painting, beadwork, and sewing. She currently lives in Oklahoma with her husband, son, 6 turtles, and dog.