Gender-Based Violence Programme Planner, Department of Violence Prevention, City of Oakland (USA)

Sara Rose Serin-Christ received her Master’s of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles with an emphasis in Maternal & Child Health. After graduating she started her career running a peer health educator programme for women visitors at San Quentin State Prison and supporting a fatherhood and family reunification programme for men being released from the prison. Sara has worked for ten years in the City of Oakland and is currently the Gender-Based Violence Programme Planner for the Department of Violence Prevention. Sara supports the development and implementation of gender-based violence services to victims and survivors as well as advocates to lift up the importance of gender-based violence programmes in the field of violence prevention.