Brenda Stanfill: Director of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (ANDVSA)

Send us Fan MailThe  Executive Director of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (ANDVSA) is Brenda Stanfill. She moved to Fairbanks from Utah when she was 16 years old as a newlywed. Within a few years of arriving she had two children and realized that she had to escape her abusive marriage. It was that experience surviving her own domestic violence that led to a lifetime of advocacy, including 25 years as executive director of the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living where she supported survivors across Interior Alaska. Although we discuss Brenda's own story, we also discuss Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whose book Nobody's Girl was published after her death by suicide in 2025. Visit ANDVSA.org for resources regarding sexual assault and domestic violence. If you are thinking of taking your own life, Call 988.