DeAnna Swope

DeAnna Swope, MPA (she/her) provides training and technical assistance to collaborations around the country that are working to build their organizational capacity to better serve survivors with disabilities as well as individual organizations from the disability and survivor advocacy field and systems responsible for responding to domestic and sexual violence. DeAnna is currently working as a senior program associate for Activating Change on Accessing Safety Initiative and is Deaf. DeAnna set up a domestic violence program BRIDGES which was housed under GA Coalition against Domestic Violence back in 2019 and was employed as a program director. Prior to BRIDGES, she used to be a mental health case manager, substance abuse activity coordinator, and domestic violence outreach specialist.

DeAnna graduated with BA in social and criminal justice as well as MA in public administration. She’s happily married with 5 children.