PVPI Staff

Lizzy Minaglia
Lead Trainer

Lizzy Minaglia has extensive experience in peer-based improvisational performance education, addressing violence prevention, sexual assault prevention, responding to alcohol and drug emergencies, issues of oppression and prejudice, and sexual health.  While a student at Western Washington University, Ms. Minaglia was a member of the peer-based, performance health education troupe, Will Act for Change, where she spent two years as a student coordinator.  As a student coordinator she was responsible for training and supervising Will Act for Change.

As a lead trainer for the PVPI, Ms. Minaglia has participated as a trainer for the School of Performance Education.  She has also helped to research, develop, and present and facilitate modules surrounding relationships, cliques, and bullying, harassment, and related violence between girls.  She has also helped train paraprofessional violence prevention educators at universities throughout the country.