Tina has worked on issues surrounding domestic violence for over 20 years. As Project Coordinator for MSH-TA, she has organized such domestic violence trainings as Law Enforcement, Building A Coordinated Response, Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter, and In Our Best Interest, a women’s group facilitator curriculum. She has taken various roles in the work to end violence in the Duluth community, working as a women’s advocate and men’s group facilitator, as well as aiding in the development of Mending the Sacred Hoop’s Coordinated Community Response in Carlton and St. Louis Counties in northeastern Minnesota. She has been a board member of American Indian Housing Program and Dabinoo’Igan, a shelter for Native women. Tina is currently a board member of the Women in Construction Company, an economic justice project developed to provide livable wages to women by training low-income women to work in the trades. 
 

Jeremy Nevilles-Sorell
Resource Coordinator
Ojibwe, White Earth
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Jeremy has worked in the field of domestic violence since 1994 on issues affecting children who have experienced domestic violence. He worked for four years at the Duluth Family Visitation Center and for several years at the Women’s Transitional Housing Coalition in Duluth, Minnesota, and joined the staff of MSH-TA in 1998.  Growing up in a home where his mother was abused, Jeremy brings firsthand knowledge of the dynamics children experience in these violent situations to the work. He has also been involved with Men As Peacemakers, a community group devoted to promoting non-violent lifestyles for men, conducted groups with teenage boys on domestic violence, and has co-facilitated groups for Native men who have battered. 
 

Rebecca started working for Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project in August of 1999. She is also currently coordinating a Safety and Accountability Audit of the systems response to Native women reporting sexual assault in and around Duluth, MN. From 2004-2007, Rebecca worked locally as the Native Women’s Advocate for Mending the Sacred Hoop/Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, monitoring the system response to women experiencing violence and providing individual advocacy. In addition to working with Mending the Sacred Hoop, Rebecca sits on the Board of Directors for American Indian Community Housing, which is a transitional housing and battered women’s shelter for Native women, and on the Circle Keepers/Board of Directors for the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition. Rebecca is on the steering committee for Minnesota’s Northeast Project to End Long-Term Homelessness and volunteers with the Program to Aid Victims of Sexual Assault. She received her BA in American Indian Studies and Anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 1994. Most important, Rebecca is the proud mother of two beautiful children, Jackson and Lillian.
 

Holly began working with MSH-TA in 2002 as an editor and writer for the Introductory Manual and the Sexual Assault Advocacy Guide. As a Resource Coordinator, she provides training and technical assistance to tribes nationally on addressing violence against Native women in their communities. In addition to her work with MSH-TA, she has taught Acting and Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth and Purdue University. Her experiences growing up with domestic violence have informed her work as a theatrical artist; she has used theatre as a means of bringing violence against women issues to the forefront of community awareness as an artistic director, actor, and director in various theatre companies. She has co-facilitated DAIP's Crossroads Program for Women Who Use Violence in Duluth, MN and has participated on the Duluth Committee on Restorative Justice. Holly received her Master of Fine Arts from Purdue University in 1994, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she graduated cum laude in 1991.
 

Paula joined the staff of Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project in October, 2005 as the data technician. She has worked with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (Duluth, MN) as a 911 Monitoring Advocate and has assisted in their In Our Best Interest trainings. As a formerly battered woman, Paula brings an understanding of the obstacles faced by women who experience domestic violence and the strengths they possess to the work.

This website is supported by Grant No. 2005-WT-AX-K013 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Dept of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.