Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams,

Cierra (ney ee or she) is posing in front of Lake Michigan and is wearing a blue tank top with a denim cross body bag. Her hair is blowing in the wind and the lake is visible in the background.
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Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, MA (ney ee or she) is a fat queer thoyewa (Disabled) Nisenan Miwok assa (N. Sierra Miwok woman) named after her homelands in now-California. Cierra is an avid flower gardener and a Pearl Jam superfan who has attended every tour possible for the last 30 years. Ney ee is a survivor of poly violence starting in childhood with 25 years of service to the anti-violence movement. Cierra has worked as a victim’s advocate who also coordinated prevention efforts for local shelters in Oregon and Indiana. In 2015, Cierra joined a prevention team at a Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Thomas-Williams
now works collaboratively with the local, state, and national partners to develop, implement, evaluate, and report on strategies supporting intimate and sexual violence prevention. In 2018, Cierra co-founded and co-leads indiana disability justice (idj) along with six other neurodivergent and Disabled people, and people with disabilities. idj provides training and technical assistance across the country to advocates and preventionists interested in exploring the intersection of disability and violence prevention. In 2024, Independence Indiana awarded Cierra with the 2024 Indiana Center for Independent Living Champion.
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