Alana is a visionary leader and skilled litigator. She founded D.C.’s first nonprofit organization to offer legal and therapeutic services to Black women- and mother- survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, The Safe Sisters Circle, which filled a critical access to justice gap in our community. I have worked with Alana directly as a colleague in the legal services space and in collaboration with TSSC; her strategic advocacy is driven by her deep commitment to eliminating the many barriers Black survivors face and has changed both her clients’ lives and the systems that created those barriers.