Carmen Pitre Email & Phone Number

Carmen Pitre is the Executive Director of Wisconsin’s largest service provider for families dealing with domestic violence, Sojourner Family Peace Center. With a multi-million dollar annual budget, Pitre leads a staff that provides crisis housing, system advocacy, and individual support to thousands of women, men and their children. Pitre is the recent past Chair of the City of Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and is an appointed member of the State of Wisconsin Department of Justice Crime Victim Rights Board. In addition, she is a member of the Office of Justice Assistance Violence Against Women Advisory Committee and a founding member of the VAWA Human Trafficking Sub-Committee. She has served on the Medical College of Wisconsin Violence Prevention Initiative Steering Committee. Pitre was integral in the merger of Sojourner Truth House and the Task Force on Family Violence in 2009 when she became Co-Executive Director of the new agency, Sojourner Family Peace Center. Before the merger, Pitre was the Executive Director of the Task Force on Family Violence from 2002 to 2009. Prior to that leadership role, Pitre served as the Director of the First Judicial District Judicial Oversight Demonstration Initiative and the Coordinator of the Milwaukee Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Pitre has received the following professional awards: 2013 Sacajawea Award from Professional Dimensions, the Business Journal 2012 Women of Influence Award, 2008 WCADV Changer Makers Award, 2002 Wisconsin Humane Society Kindness Award, 2000 I Am My Sisters Keeper Award and the 1999 Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence Other Systems Ally Award, 1999 Governors Award for Significant Accomplishment in Domestic Violence Award.

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