About Us

Nicole Baran, MSW, is the Director and Founder of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness. She has been dedicated to the domestic violence movement since 2000, working both as an advocate with survivors of domestic violence and at the policy level for systemic change. Prior to the Center, she was the Grant and Contract Manager at the Support Network for Battered Women in Mountain View. Previously, she worked for the Greenbook Initiative in St. Louis and produced guidelines regarding the response of domestic violence service providers to child maltreatment. Nicole has contributed to several publications to improve the response of child welfare and court systems to domestic violence survivors. In San Francisco, she taught dating violence prevention to continuation high school students. She has conducted training and workshops on domestic violence since 2001. She received her BA and MA in English from Stanford University and received her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, with a specialization in management and a focus on domestic violence research.

“The Center has given me the courage to speak out, with the facts, with compassion, with the knowledge that the movement to end violence against women is a movement that affects all of us. In no small way, my life has been changed by this internship.” – Intern