Jennifer Storm is an international public speaker with 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-five years of active recovery, she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime, having worked on many high-profile cases,...
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Jennifer Storm is an international public speaker with 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-five years of active recovery, she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime, having worked on 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 over seven years as the Victim Advocate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 2013-2021 under the leadership and appointments of Governors Wolf and Corbett after being unanimously confirmed by the state Senate. She was responsible for representing the rights and interests of crime victims within the Commonwealth.
She has appeared; The Today Show, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CBS 48 Hours Live to Tell, The New York Times, People, Parents, Business Week, The Washington Post, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Curve Magazine, The Advocate, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and E! News online.
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.
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Speaker Programs
Trauma, Substance Use and Victimization – The Unspoken Cycles
Jennifer will present on the interconnections between trauma, victimization and substance use.
Recovery and Resiliency-Jennifer Storm’s personal story
Jennifer will discuss her personal survival story from childhood sexual assault and the ten years of substance abuse that followed. After waking up from a brutal sucicide attempt, she found the hope to recover, ...more
Jennifer will discuss her personal survival story from childhood sexual assault and the ten years of substance abuse that followed. After waking up from a brutal sucicide attempt, she found the hope to recover, ...less
Building a Trauma Informed Agency and/or Community
Jennifer shares her twenty years of expereince working with government and non-profit organizations on how to build a trauma informed agency. ...more
Jennifer shares her twenty years of expereince working with government and non-profit organizations on how to build a trauma informed agency. ...less
Victim’s Rights & Enforcement
Jennifer will educate on victims rights both federally and state specific and how entities can assist with enforcement of those rights for crime victims. ...more
Jennifer will educate on victims rights both federally and state specific and how entities can assist with enforcement of those rights for crime victims. ...less
Reviews
“In 2013 I had the pleasure to appoint Jennifer Storm as Victim Advocate for Pennsylvania. Throughout my prosecutorial career, I was a strong believer in the need for victims to be recognized and assisted in the criminal justice system. I was very pleased to have an outstanding individual to appoint as the Victim Advocate. Her…
- Govenor Tom Corbett
“Jennifer Storm has served our commonwealth well as Victim Advocate, and she will be missed, Jennifer’s empathy, dedication, and ferocious commitment to justice made her an ideal advocate for victims and survivors throughout the commonwealth. I extend my thanks to Jennifer for all she has done to ease the burdens of victims and survivors and…
- Governor Tom Wolf
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