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Survivor. Author. Victim’s Rights Expert. Consultant.
Jennifer Storm has over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and governmental relations; combined with a powerful personal story of survival from victimization and addiction. Today with over twenty-three years of active recovery she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime having worked many high-profile cases including helping victims/survivors of, Jerry Sandusky, Bill Cosby, Catholic Clergy victims and thousands of other cases in her twenty-year long career as a victim advocate.
Ms. Storm served more than seven years as the Victim Advocate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 2013-2021 under the leadership and appointments of both, Governor’s Tom Wolf and Tom Corbett after being unanimously confirmed by the state Senate on Dec. 10, 2013. As Victim Advocate, she was responsible for representing the rights and interests of crime victims within the Commonwealth and was the only person to receive back-to-back bipartisan appointments in the Commonwealth’s history.
She is the immediate past board President of the National Crime Victim Law Institute. Mrs. Storm was sworn in as a member delegate for the American Corrections Association at the Winter Conference on February 7 2021.
Ms. Storm has received numerous awards including; the 2012 Gail Burns Smith Award from the National Crime Victim Law Institute presented at their annual conference for Excellence in Victims Services, the 2012 Liberty Bell Award from the Dauphin County Bar Association and the 2011 Pathfinder Award for Excellence in Victims Services in the Commonwealth of PA presented by Governor Tom Corbett.
She was born and raised near Allentown, PA and attended Northampton High School. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Services and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management from The University of Phoenix. She studied Human Resources and Dispute Management & Resolutions at The ILR School of Cornell University.
She has been profiled or appeared in the following media; The Today Show, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CBS 48 Hours Live to Tell program, The New York Times, People Magazine, Parents Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Curve Magazine, The Advocate, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, WE Magazine, Women Magazine and E! News online. In 2002, Ms. Storm also publicly debated Oliver North live on his syndicated talk show Common Sense with Oliver North regarding LGBTQ rights.
Ms. Storm is the author of six critically acclaimed books on addiction, recovery and victimization. Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivors Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma, Blackout Girl: Tracing my Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault, Second Edition, Echoes of Penn State: Facing Sexual Trauma, Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up: A Guidebook Through Victimization for People in Recovery, Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery and Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America. She is available for all speaking engagements, including keynote presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and book signings.
Jennifer has filmed a short documentary based on her first memoir, Blackout Girl.
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