Sallie Lynch is Director of Development at the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. She has spent 25+ years in nonprofit development and fundraising and is a specialist in tragedy response and community resilience, supporting and facilitating peer connections between individuals, families, and communities impacted by terrorism, targeted violence, military conflict, and widescale trauma and loss. Sallie is a mass violence response consultant to the U.S. Office of Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center (OVC-TTAC). She has provided customized guidance to frontline service providers, community leaders and survivors in the U.S. and internationally and is a co-founder of the Survivors of Tragedy Outreach Program (STOP). Sallie holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University in New York and a BA in Cultural Studies from Charles University in Prague.