Image description: Cierra is a fat and sassy queer thoyewa (disabled) Miwok assa (woman) with salt and pepper hair. She is smiling into the camera in front of Lake Michigan and is wearing a blue tank shirt with a cross body jean bag.
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams, MA (ney ee or she/her/hers) is a Prevention Specialist at Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) whose work focuses on advancing disability justice through the primary prevention of violence. Ney ee is a fat queer thoyewa (Disabled) Nissenan Miwok assa (woman). After 17 years as a victim’s advocate who also coordinated prevention efforts for local shelters in Oregon and Indiana, Cierra joined the ICADV prevention team in 2015. Ms. Thomas-Williams works collaboratively with the ICADV prevention team to develop, implement, evaluate, and report on strategies supporting Indiana’s sexual violence prevention plan and intimate partner violence prevention plan. In 2018, Cierra co-founded and co-leads
indiana disability justice (idj) along with six other neurodivergent and Disabled people, and people with disabilities who provide training and technical assistance across the country to advocates and preventionists interested in exploring the intersection of disability and violence prevention. In 2022, Cierra earned the outstanding prevention services award from Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking. Cierra is an avid flower gardener and a Pearl Jam superfan who has attended every possible tour for the last 30 years.
Email: cwilliams@icadvinc.org or
INdisabilityjustice@gmail.com, Text: 812-219-8545