Ms. Donna Widstrom Dunn This is Me

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1. 1. mncasa.com

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   Published on: 7/2/2008   Last Visited: 7/2/2008

   Donna Dunn, Executive Director
   
   Donna Dunn became the Executive Director of MNCASA in July, 2006.Prior to this, Ms. Dunn served as the program manager of the Sexual Violence Justice Institute, the criminal justice arm of the coalition.An activist in the movement to end violence against women, Ms. Dunn has over 20 years of experience in community based private non-profits.She was the director of Victim Services of Dodge/Fillmore/Olmsted Community Corrections and served as the Sexual Assault Program Director for the state of Minnesota.
   
   Ms. Dunn has lectured on team collaboration and sexual assault response across the U.S.She believes that multidisciplinary collaboration brings together the community forces that need to be working in tandem to stop violence against women.She is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and Vanderbilt University.

2. 2. www.kare11.com

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   Published on: 8/23/2008   Last Visited: 8/23/2008

   "It sounds like we've got a real high danger time in this particular neighborhood, so the caution would be to just not be out alone, to be pre-thinking, be very aware of your environment, pay attention to what's going on around you," says Donna Dunn with the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

3. 3. www.winonadailynews.com

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   Published on: 4/18/2008   Last Visited: 4/18/2008

   Donna Dunn, executive director of the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, far left, talks with Winona community members on Thursday at the Eagles Club as part of Take Back the Night, an event to raise awareness about sexual violence.
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   Donna Dunn, executive director of the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Violence, said the health department's report was a result of putting concrete evidence on an issue that is not always tangible or easy to report.
   
   Before leading the St. Paul-based coalition, Dunn worked at a victim-based program.
   
   "We hear (victims') stories and think, ‘Why can't the public understand what we're dealing with?'" she said.
   
   The report is intended to answer that question.
   
   Dunn said the greatest way to reduce cost was to reduce sexual crime altogether.
   
   "We need commitment to primary prevention - stopping it before it occurs," she said at the rally.
   
   Prevention efforts are supported by federal dollars - about ,800,000 per year.No state money is allotted to preventing sexual violence.