Back then, most of those advocates who complained were really interested in sitting at the Southcenter Starbucks while Dawn clients piled up waiting to speak with someone. Ina asked us about every change she made. She invited us to be part of a real team and she really she listened to our clients, the people we were SUPPOSED to be helping. Its a real shame she isn't still doing this work. Most of the agencies serve the employees and the clients are a secondary afterthought. Those old advocates were all impressed with their city connections even when what the cities wanted conflicted with what was best to help dv survivors. I wish they had spent as much time working to improve things as they did trying to make trouble. Things would be better now if they had!

I used to volunteer at DAWN pre - Ina and to qualify everyone as hanging out at the Starbucks is not accurate.Everyone I knew was hard working and passionate about what they did. No one is arguing changes needed to be made to the structure of DAWN but the viciousness and inhumane way Ina went about those changes was the issue here and the lack of backbone by the board shows us who may have been just hanging out at Starbucks. 100% turnover?... Ina gutted a fine institution, marginalizes a large group of people and our clients suffered...all so she could get her numbers crunched.