Tim Taylor is the co-founder and Managing Partner of America Succeeds, bringing a unique background of executive, non-profit and public policy experience to the organization. Prior to launching America Succeeds, he served as the founding President of Colorado Succeeds. Tim began his career on Capitol Hill as an assistant to Congressman Richard Burr (NC) and advanced to serve as the Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Saxby Chambliss (GA). After re-locating to Colorado in 1998, he served as an independent political consultant, Director of Public Relations and Government Affairs for the Colorado Health Care Association and founder of Open Fairways, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underprivileged children through the game of golf and its core values of honor, etiquette and respect.

Tim serves on the board of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network and Highline Academy Charter School. He is the founder and co-chairman of the Coca-Cola Politics & Pros charity golf tournament in Washington, DC featuring Members of Congress and PGA Tour professionals which benefits America’s Promise Alliance and The First Tee. Tim is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, studied at the Goethe-Institute in Bonn, Germany and earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University.

Tanya Ahamed

Tanya Ahamed is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Denver. Tanya began her career working with victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse and then moved into doing therapy with convicted offenders who have been court ordered into treatment. Though Tanya’s path changed direction, she has maintained her belief in change and healing and she has now been working to rehabilitate criminal offenders since 2005.  In addition, Tanya is the Fundraising Director and sits on the Board of Directors for S.O.U.L. Foundation where she works in rural Uganda to promote education, community development and sustainable business cooperatives within small villages. She is so thankful and proud to be a part of Breaking Silence and to contribute to the groundbreaking projects bridging healing, awareness, and support for all people healing from interpersonal violence.

Alane Holsteen

Alane Holsteen began working with victims of domestic violence in 1990 at the Denver City and County Domestic Violence Unit while studying at the University of Colorado for her degree in Women’s Studies.  She went on to be hired by Jefferson County District Attorney’s office in 1991.

Ms. Holsteen has continued to work as a Victim Specialist in Jefferson County for all crimes against children cases, including sex assaults, physical abuse, homicides, exploitation, and trafficking.  Ms. Holsteen has presented in many state wide trainings regarding child victims over the years including the Colorado Law Enforcement Officers Association, Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, Colorado Investigators Training Program, Colorado Children’s Advocacy Centers, and the Sex Offender Management Program.

Barb Sheppard

Callie Rennison 

Callie Marie Rennison, PhD is the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Associate Professor, and MCJ Program Director at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. Her areas of research include the nature, extent, and consequences of violent victimization with an emphasis on research methodology, quantitative analysis, and measurement, especially in regards to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Substantively, her research examines violence against women, violence against minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanics, crime data and victim interaction with the criminal justice system. She recently served on a National Academies Committee examining domestic sex trafficking of minors in the United States and was recently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Her research on violent victimization and reporting violence to the police has appeared in numerous journals including theJournal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Violence and Victims, Trauma, Violence and Abuse, and Violence Against Women.