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Tracy Bahm

Tracy Bahm currently consults for numerous organizations on violence against women issues.   She serves on the advisory boards of numerous national and international organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Sheriffs Association. Ms. Bahm is widely viewed as a national authority on stalking, and is often quoted in the media. From 2002 to 2006, she was the Director of the Stalking Resource Center at the National Center for Victims of Crime. The Stalking Resource Center is funded by the Office on Violence Against Women to provide technical assistance and training to grantees. Its mission is to raise national awareness about stalking and to encourage the development and implementation of multidisciplinary responses to stalking in local communities across the country. At the National Center for Victims of Crime, Ms. Bahm trained thousands of practitioners on all aspects of stalking. 

Prior to joining the National Center for Victims of Crime, Ms. Bahm was a Senior Attorney in the Violence Against Women Program at the American Prosecutors Research Institute. She served as a faculty member and lecturer at numerous domestic violence and sexual assault programs, training our nation’s prosecutors about violence against women crimes. Ms. Bahm began her legal career as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Kitsap County, Washington in February 1994; in1997, she was selected to help form a newly created special assault unit, which handled all felony and misdemeanor domestic violence and sexual assault cases. She received her B.A. from the University of Kansas, with a major in psychology, and her J.D. from the University of Houston. Ms. Bahm recently returned to the Northwest to raise her twin boys close to family.