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Sasha Drobnick, Director of Appellate Litigation, DV LEAP, a project of Network for Victim Recovery of D.C.
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.
Mary Ellen Fleck Kleiman, Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Disability:IN
I am a big fan and admirer of Alana! She is a dedicated, passionate, driven, bright, hard working, and inspirational leader and change maker in her community, improving the lives of women in need through Safe Sisters Circle. She and I became acquainted in the very early days of Safe Sisters Circle when her newly founded organization, which supports Black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence in DC Wards 7 and 8, became a grantee of the Women’s Bar Association Foundation (WBAF), on whose board I sit. Thereafter, I saw her grow Safe Sisters Circle and the services it provided by smartly building out a team of additional talented and devoted staff. While the WBAF continued its support of Safe Sisters Circle with repeated grants through the present (2024), I found myself compelled by Alana’s passion and commitment to personally donate to the wonderful work of Safe Sisters Circle. I applauded and cheered the selection of Alana as a 2022 Washingtonian of the Year, happy to see such recognition for an important community leader who I hold in such high regard. As her star continues to rise, I look forward to future opportunities to work with Alana.
Tonya Lovelace, President & CEO of Lovelace Consulting Srvs, Inc.
Alana is a shining star in the next generation of women of color leadership in ending gender-based violence. I have had the pleasure of mentoring Alana as Safe Sisters Circle’s founder for over three years. In that time, she tripled her organizational budget, made savvy decisions to grow her staff and installed a deputy role with whom she herself mentored and shared leadership to free her up to give her room for enterprising activities on behalf of the organization. Alana’s culturally specific acumen is powerful and unwavering, identifying and filling service gaps in Wards 7 & 8 and the overall DMV with legal services, new mental health counseling, and enrichment programming for young women of color. She has received many awards honoring her contributions in the DC area. Safe Sisters Circle is a model program and is one of few, if not the only, culturally specific legal services organization aimed specifically at serving Black women in the country. There is truly no limit to where Alana’s brilliance and ingenuity can take her!
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