Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans: Key Strategies for Equitable Partnerships with Culturally-Specific Organizations
Kristin Burki, MSW & Dr. LaTrice Buck

Kristin Burki is the Director of the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later (NCALL), a project of End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin. Burki has 20 years of experience in the gender-based violence movement, including work as a member of a statewide AmeriCorps team of gender-based violence advocates and community educators in Oregon; roles as Support Group Coordinator and Director of Services at Domestic Abuse Intervention Services in Madison, WI; and in the position of Prevention and Early Intervention Section Manager for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. She also spent 4 years as faculty at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she taught a graduate course focused on integrating social work theory with practice. Burki holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a Bachelor of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. She is a certified Advanced Practice Social Worker in the state of Wisconsin.

Dr. Buck is the founder of INSPIRE Consulting, an agency focused on counseling, educating, and training professionals on domestic violence, trauma, and substance abuse. Dr. Buck was the Director of the Milwaukee Women’s Center for over 7 years providing services in areas related to elder, later life, domestic and substance abuse, from prevention and treatment to management and program implementation. Additionally, Dr. Buck has presented at various conferences including those for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Child Welfare League of America, Black Administrators in Child Welfare, the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance, Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, University of Wisconsin, NCALL, and a host of others. Dr. Buck is a proud HBCU graduate of Alabama State University, and an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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