Sasha Taylor is a policy advisor and advocate specializing in countering honor-based violence (HBV), interpersonal violence (IPV), child, early, and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU), visa exploitation, and human trafficking within immigrant and refugee communities. Her work centers on preventing honor-based violence from research through implementation, with a focus on capacity building, policy development, and legislation.

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Ms. Taylor is the author of the first framework legislation on honor-based violence ever drafted in the United States. She founded her advisory firm in 2021 after spending more than a decade at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where she developed deep expertise in violence prevention, trafficking, and complex victimization.

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She serves in numerous leadership and advisory roles, including consultant and trainer for The Regional Interdisciplinary Collaborative (The RIC), a mid-Atlantic partnership dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting survivors; co-chair of the DC Human Trafficking Task Force’s Policy and Legislation Subcommittee; chair of the Access to Services Subcommittee of Virginia’s Office of New Americans Advisory Board; member of the Virginia Coalition Against Human Trafficking; and lifetime member of the FBI Association of Intelligence Analysts.

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In addition to her policy and advisory work, Ms. Taylor is a guest lecturer at The Ohio State University and conducts capacity-building trainings for task forces across the United States. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and a master’s degree from Michigan State University.

 

For consulting inquiries, please contact: sasha@realityofadesigirl.com