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Elizabeth Ward Saxl, Executive Director
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Elizabeth and Dory have overall strategic and operational responsibility for MECASA’s staff, programs, expansion, and the execution of its mission to end sexual violence in Maine and to support high quality sexual violence prevention and response within Maine’s communities. In addition, they focus on initiating and advocating for victim-centered public policy at the State House and in other policy arenas. Elizabeth and Dory report directly to MECASA’s Board of Directors.

​When they don’t have their heads buried in Maine’s Criminal Code, Elizabeth and Dory can be found working outside with the rest of their family at their home in Belgrade; trying to spend as much time as possible in, on and by the water; and saving their frequent-flyer points miles for their next family adventure.

Destie Hohman Sprague, Associate Director
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As MECASA's Associate Director, Destie spends a lot of time making spreadsheets with work plans; thinking and talking about – and sometimes working on – evaluation and how we measure our efforts; grant-writing and reporting; and helping to set the agenda for statewide prevention and programming. She also supports the staff who are coordinating programs, such as the Network of CACs, trafficking, and provider services. She is always happy to help out with questions about program development, outcome evaluation, collecting data and making it useful, primary prevention (and spreadsheets!).

​ Destie lives in Bath with her family, where she spends a lot of time growing, cooking, canning and eating food.

Jennifer Wilkey, Communications Coordinator
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​​As Communications Coordinator, Jennifer oversees MECASA’s communication strategies, where she strives for consistent statewide messaging and visual aesthetic. She supports both MECASA’s in house staff and state providers with a range of communication needs. Examples of this include creating digital, print, and social media content, working with Maine media, responding to current issues and events, and writing talking points, press releases, and op-eds. As an artist, design is her happy place and she loves to create engaging content utilizing her graphic design, photography, and video skills to help prevent sexual violence and improve accessibility to resources and information within our Maine community.

Jennifer lives in Brunswick with her family and various critters, including her dachshund/lab mix, Olive. She can be found reading science fiction and engaging her artistic side with woodturning, drawing, or sewing in her free time.

Julie Agri, Financial Coordinator
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Julie is the Finance Coordinator at MECASA and brings many years' of finance experience with her. She enjoys spending time with her two teenage kids, road trips, kayaking, and photography.

​Erika Allen, Program Coordinator
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​As Program Coordinator, Erika enjoys spending her time planning conferences and trainings and playing with numbers in MECASA’s database. If you’d like to ask her a question about Empower DB or webinars she’d love to answer it.

​While she’s not at our office, Erika is busy living her best life in Jefferson: deadlifting heavy weights, picking out glittery stickers for her planner, and writing to her senators while watching episodes of Scandal and RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Jess Bedard, Trafficking & Special Projects Coordinator
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​Jess is the Trafficking & Special Projects Coordinator. She provides technical assistance to sexual assault service providers and community members who are delivering services in complex systems, specifically with survivors of human trafficking and incarcerated survivors. Please reach out to Jess with questions around any of these issues.  

When she’s not at MECASA Jess enjoys hiking, traveling and snuggling her cat.

Katie Church, Office Coordinator
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Katie is the office coordinator at MECASA and supports many of the day to day operations.  She previously worked as the education coordinator at SARSSM before moving up to the Augusta area and is thrilled to have the opportunity to join the MECASA team.  She holds a B.A. and M.S. in psychology from UMF and USM, respectively. 

​When she’s not at work, Katie loves to explore the outdoors with her family and try new recipes.

Sarah Firth, Quality and Compliance Coordinator
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Sarah coordinates compliance and quality; that means she can help you figure out how to offer services and develop your workplace in ways that also satisfy the regulations. You might see her doing site visits or training at staff meetings but she also works on projects to develop consistent statewide services like text/chat and support group facilitator training.

She lives with her family in Vienna.

Meg Hatch, CAC Network Coordinator
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Meg is the Network Coordinator for the Maine Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers. Her work is focused on providing support to Maine’s existing and emerging CACs and multidisciplinary teams. The Network also creates a monthly Resource Round-up, maintains the CAC website and updates the online CAC toolkit. Meg’s goal is to create programs across the state so that all children have access to high quality intervention services provided at CACs.

When she’s not working she enjoys spending time outside, creating delicious food and reading.

Katie Kondrat, Underserved Programs Coordinator
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Katie works with culturally and community-specific providers and sexual assault support centers to create accessible and equitable services for all survivors. She looks for opportunities to create community-led sexual violence services for populations who have barriers to services, and are therefore, underserved.

Katie wants to work with you on supporting rural advocates and survivors, Safe Space training and gender-inclusive services,  collaborating with culturally or community-specific partners,  and building or finding resources for any other underserved population. 

When she’s not at MECASA, she can be found urban farming in Portland, swimming, or somewhere outside with her family and the Tiniest Dog.

, Prevention Coordinator
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