Ann Emmerling

Ann Emmerling has been active in the movement to end gender-based violence since 1982. She has been on staff at Blackburn Center for 35 years, serving as Executive Director for the past 28 years. Blackburn Center is the lead agency in Westmoreland County in both trauma-focused services for victims of violence and crime, and in the primary prevention of gender-based violence. Ann has served on the Advisory Council of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, and on the Victim Services Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. In addition to her state and national work, Ann is active in the Westmoreland County community with a variety of organizations.