Women’s Center

Saundra Haggerty is a native of San Francisco. She is GLIDE's Violence Intervention Programs Manager and oversees two programs serving two distinct populations: Men In Progress and the Women's Center. Both programs provide education, prevention, and intervention services that address gender-based violence in relationships, families, and the broader community. Men In Progress and the Women's Center target and serve communities of color, particularly African-American/Black communities, to address the historical and institutional impact of systemic racism on violence, trauma, and disenfranchisement. Men In Progress serves economically and socially disenfranchised men who are mandated by the criminal justice and child protective services to complete a batterer's intervention program as a condition of their supervision and/or family reunification requirements. The Women's Center serves self-identified women survivors of violence to gain a deeper understanding of how gender-based violence and individual, family, and community violence are perpetrated through cultural, social, and interpersonal factors that promote aggression and violence to obtain power and control. Saundra serves as GLIDE's content expert on gender-based and community violence.