Gina is a member and resident of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado. She launched the Tribe’s first-ever victim support services program and currently provides statewide training and technical assistance to sexual assault advocacy programs. 

As the programs team lead in her position as the Systems Response Program Director, she works within different disciplne responses to sexual assault and sexual violence. Including SANE/SAFE/FNE, courts and jurisdiction navigation, sexual violence and trafficking in Tribal communities and SART (SA Response Teams) programming. She also represents CCASA’s statewide members on legislative committees, boards and taskforces to enhance change through sexual violence advocacy lens and Tribal community lived experience. 

She spends her free time being a fierce aunty to the children in her community and volunteering in community efforts to support youth LGBTQ2S, anti-bullying and suicide prevention work. 

With 27 years of experience in law enforcement, Lt. Taylor began his career in 1998 with San Juan County, Utah. In 2001, Lt. Taylor joined the Arizona Department of Public Safety, serving in Kayenta. In 2003, he returned to Utah to work with the Utah Highway Patrol in San Juan County. From 2007 to 2014, he was assigned to the criminal interdiction and canine teams. Lt. Taylor was promoted to sergeant in 2016 and served in Southeast Utah, overseeing Grand and San Juan counties. In 2024, he was promoted to lieutenant and currently serves as the Section 13 Commander for both counties.  

Lt. Taylor has participated in numerous leadership training programs, including Northwestern Staff and Command. Throughout his career, he has worked extensively within and around the Navajo Nation. In 2022, in collaboration with the Navajo Police Department, we successfully established the first Mutual Aid Agreement between our agencies.

Steve Aycock is an independent consultant on domestic violence and Tribal law issues and a meeting facilitator. He also serves as a trial and appellate judge for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and is a justice on the Court of Appeals for the Suquamish Tribe. From 1999 to 2008 and again from 2019 to 2021, he served as the Chief Judge of the Colville Tribal Court. From 2008 to 2017, he was the Judge-in-Residence for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. His work at the National Council included making presentations at national, state, and tribal conferences on various domestic violence and tribal issues. While at the National Council, he was one of the technical assistance providers to the Intertribal Training and Technical Assistance Working Group (ITWG), providing assistance to Tribes implementing criminal jurisdiction over non-Indian defendants in domestic violence cases. He is continuing that work as a consultant with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute. From 1987 until 2008, he worked for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. From 1987 to 1999, he was the Director of the Colville Tribal Legal Office, where he represented individual members of the Tribes in civil matters. The office specialized in children’s and elders’ advocacy. He has also worked for Evergreen Legal Services in the Pasco, Washington office and as a public defender in Franklin County District and Superior Courts. From 1984 to 1986, he was a clinical instructor, and in 2008, he taught Federal Indian Law at the University of Idaho, College of Law. He also taught Family Relations in Indian Country at the Law School during the fall semester of 2024. He is a past board member of the Committee to Aid Abused Women in Reno, Nevada. He has served as a faculty member of the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence. Steve received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington State University in 1977. He graduated from the University of Idaho, College of Law, in 1980.