April Petillo, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Applied/Public Sociology at Northern Arizona University and a founding partner/Principal Consultant for CES Partnership, LLC. April’s commitment to transformative work with underserved, underestimated communities and Indigenous nations in the US and internationally is evident in her nearly two decades of experience in higher education and non-profit program design/evaluation, capacity building, and training/curriculum development. April centers community insight concerning gender-based violence, racialized harms, and social inequities/exclusion, combining sociolegal analysis, critical trafficking studies, and evaluation methodologies focused on community health, public policy, and assessments concerning “difficult topics” within an anti-racist, decolonial, queer praxis.
