YWCA St. Paul's Week Without Violence Feature Podcast

Listen to YWCA St. Paul’s Director of Housing and Public Policy Nikki Beasley discuss the realities of gender-based violence, and its impact on the community in the YWCA St. Paul’s feature podcast for a Week Without Violence. For more information about Week Without Violence, visit our website: ywcastpaul.org/weekwithoutviolence.

About Nikki Beasley

As Director of Housing and Public Policy, Nikki Beasley provides leadership for YWCA St. Paul’s Housing and Support Services programs and clinical oversight to all programs staff. She monitors program performance, including racial justice-gender equity-cultural understanding, provides best practice approaches training for staff and their application within programs, and builds external partnerships and community engagement.

Nikki has more than 20 years of leadership experience in providing therapeutic services to individuals, youth and families experiencing crisis, domestic violence, homelessness and sex trafficking. She holds an M.A. in Counseling and Psychotherapy from the Adler Graduate School and a B.A. in Psychology from Concordia University.

About Your Host Dana Beasley

Dana Beasley (no relation to Nikki) podcast host, is a writer, podcaster and thought partner who specializes in issues of equity in the workplace. She’s an alumni of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and has partnered with YWCA St. Paul to help further its mission of eliminating racism and empowering women and girls.

About Week Without Violence

YWCA is on a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, stand up for social justice, help families, and strengthen communities. For more than 20 years, we have set aside one week in October as a Week Without Violence—a week to raise awareness and engage action to end the broad spectrum of violence—as part of a global movement with World YWCA to end violence against women and girls. This year, we invite you to join us from October 18–23 for this year’s campaign.

At YWCA, we know that not all violence is acknowledged or responded to equally and that some victims go unrecognized altogether. That’s why we focus on ending gender-based violence, including domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and harassment.