Victoria Ybanez, MPA

Victoria Ybanez, MPA (Diné, Apache and Mexican descent), has been working to end violence against American Indian/Alaskan Native women for 38 years. She has a depth of experience working closely with Tribes in developing and implementing a range of responses to violence against indigenous women, has conducted numerous on-site visits, and facilitated sessions and training for tribes over the past 24 years. She is experienced working inter-tribally as well as within a tribe’s local culture. She developed and is the Executive Director of Red Wind Consulting, Inc. (2005-present) coordinating and providing Tribal Training and Technical Assistance for recipients of the Tribal Governments Program for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) as the Tribal Governments Program Comprehensive TA Provider; working with Tribal college and university campuses developing holistic responses to sexual assault; and responses for urban Native programs. Additionally, Red Wind provides training and technical assistance to tribes developing and running multi-disciplinary responses on Abuse in Later Life funded through the Office for Victims of Crime.

She also developed Red Wind’s National Tribal Advocate Center providing 40-hour Domestic Violence Training Institutes and 40-hour Sexual Assault Training Institutes. She developed the curriculum for each training and serves as lead faculty. In addition, through Red Wind, Victoria works extensively in the provision of Sexual Assault Response Team development and training.

Ms. Ybanez has her master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus with a Major in Economics and Minor in Political Science. Ms. Ybanez was published in three anthologies in 2008: Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence, Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence and Birthed from Scorched Hearts.