Know More, Do More: Recognizing and Responding to Stalking

Julia Holtemeyer, from The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center will lead this 90-minute training.

Julia Holtemeyer (MPP) is the Resource & Training Specialist for the Stalking, Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC), an AEquitas initiative. In her role, she provides training and technical assistance, develops original resources, and collaborates with partners to enhance the ability of multidisciplinary professionals to recognize and respond to stalking.

Julia’s work in gender-based violence began as a college student, when she worked at a rape crisis center and as a peer health educator. She later served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania, where she lived and worked at a secondary school in a small rural community, teaching mathematics, health, and life skills, including discussing gender-based violence. Julia went on to work in gender integration in global health, first with the USAID Office of HIV/AIDS and later with the USAID ASSIST Project, a project to improve the quality of health services in more than 20 countries around the world. Julia then transitioned into improving the criminal justice response to gender-based violence, managing a project to provide training and technical assistance response to crimes of violence against women.

Julia graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, and from the George Washington University with a Master of Public Policy and a Graduate Certificate of Women’s Studies. Julia applies her experience with gender-based violence, gender studies, global health, public policy, and knowledge management to her commitments to equity and justice. Julia is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Julia Holtemeyer (MPP) brings a decade of experience in anti-violence work, including her current role as a Resource & Training Specialist for the Stalking, Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC). Her career has centered around providing training and technical assistance to a variety of disciplines, including health services, victim support services, and criminal justice system actors. With SPARC, she works with national partners to develop resources and provide TTA to better support stalking victims and better hold stalking offenders accountable. She worked with the International Association of Chiefs of Police on projects to improve law enforcement response to violence against women and to identify and address gender bias, providing TTA to law enforcement and their partner organizations on appropriate patrol and investigative response, the role of supervisors, the role of police leaders, the dynamics and realities of crimes of violence against women, the role of lethality/danger/risk assessments, and the role of firearms in these crimes.