At ASHÉ communities, we envision a world where people who’ve experienced structural and interpersonal violence live full and thriving lives without risks for continued harm
We highlight research-informed practices and policies to practitioner and government audiences in the gender based violence, community violence, and related fields on ways to
We exercise diverse approaches to achieve our mission. Our work includes informing research processes, conducting presentations and trainings, writing for, and contributing to resource acquisition for our intended audiences.
ASHÉ Communities LLC is owned and operated by Storm Ervin. Storm is an award-winning strategist whose work over the last decade has been devoted to helping communities thrive without structural and interpersonal harm. She has spent the bulk of her career as a researcher and technical assistance (TA) provider and fundraised over $7 million dollars from diverse sources including federal, local, philanthropic, and corporate entities. She has managed inter-generational and various-sized teams to lead and support national, local, and multisite mixed-methods research, evaluations, and TA projects. Her project leadership and work center on understanding responses to domestic and intimate partner violence, community violence, and sexual violence in corrections settings. Her work has resulted in 13 first-authored open-access research publications and research-based internal memoranda to government staff in 6 jurisdictions to aid in enhancing local safety efforts.
She has been invited to speak about her research, build data capacity for local organizations, and advance research-backed promising practices. Some of the organizations that Storm has received invitations from include the National Institute of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women in the U.S. Department of Justice, the Center for Justice Innovation, Everytown for Gun Safety, the Community-based Public Safety Collective, the Oklahoma Fatality Review Board, the Texas Council on Family Violence, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Victim Support Services in Washington State.
In her early career, she volunteered as a crime victim advocate at the Crime Victim Center (formerly the Crime Victim Advocacy Center) in St. Louis, Missouri shortly before becoming a McNair Scholar and researching pathways that led Black women to incarceration. During this time period, she also started a student-led movement, Concerned Student 1-9-5-0, which advocated for racial freedom on college campuses and received the 47th NAACP Image Awards' Chairman's Award.
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