Kirby Williams

Kirby Williams (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is a violence prevention specialist addressing violence against Native people and tribal communities. She holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Missouri State University.  Since 2014, she has worked to raise awareness and promote prevention of intimate partner violence, and conducted numerous trainings on serving Native American survivors.  She was a Cohort 5 fellow for the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy, which developed recommendations on how culture can be used as a protective factor against human trafficking among Indigenous youth. For her violence prevention work, she was a recipient of the Cherokee Phoenix's Seven Feathers Award and the Nebraska recipient of the 2022 National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Visionary Voice Award.  In 2022, she helped to establish the Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence Coalition (NETAV).