Creating Accessible Sexual Violence Programs

Anyenise Vilches is responsible for supporting NJCASA’s programs and initiatives through the lenses of accessibility and intersectionality, providing resources and information at a statewide and community level. Her interest in, and exposure to, humanitarian and social justice efforts at a young age led to a specific interest in the anti-sexual violence movement. Having an eclectic set of interests has afforded her an equally-eclectic professional experience. She has worked in the television and film industry, where she was able to see the impact media has on our society’s beliefs, particularly power-based violence, firsthand.

Anyenise has several years of experience within the sexual violence movement, having worked at the local level at the Center For Family Services’ Services Empowering Rights of Victims (SERV) program as a Residential Advocate and Prevention Coordinator; at the Pine Hill Borough Police Department, where she continued supporting survivors as a member of the Camden County Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition; and finally as the Lead Prevention Coordinator at CONTACT of Burlington County.