Cristy is the Manager of Supportive Housing at Willow Domestic Violence Center, where she leads a survivor-centered team focused on developing and delivering trauma-informed programming for individuals and families impacted by domestic violence. She works collaboratively with her team and agency partners to build programs that promote housing stability, safety, and long-term empowerment for survivors navigating complex trauma and structural barriers.

A Rochester native with an unwavering commitment to justice, Cristy’s interest in anti-trafficking work was sparked during her time in California, where she partnered with activists and federal law enforcement on training efforts to identify and disrupt online grooming tactics targeting women and children. Her approach to advocacy is holistic, grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience. She has also served as a crisis chat counselor for The Trevor Project and other national crisis lines, providing real-time emotional support to individuals in crisis. She volunteers annually for the Point-in-Time Count, helping to ensure Rochester’s unhoused population is counted, seen, and supported.

Outside of work, Cristy is an artist, crafter, and iced tea enthusiast who lives just outside of the city with her husband, kids, a nervous dog who probably needs her own emotional support animal, and a squad of black cats who act as the household’s very unofficial, and wildly demanding, board of directors. Given Cristy’s experience serving on nonprofit boards, she’s learned to negotiate through some tough situations... but the cats remain undefeated.