Daisy Pagan serves as the GARE Events Manager, where her primary responsibility is overseeing GARE’s 2023 large events and convening, including the “Governing for All: California” a statewide event, the GARE Leadership Summit and the “Governing for All: A GARE Convening” (formerly AMM). She comes to the GARE team with eighteen years of victim advocacy, program, and grants management experience, and five years of public policy experience in research, analysis, and policy development. She has over seven years of training development, conference, and event planning experience.
Most recently she served as the Executive Director of National Associations of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) where, in addition to being responsible for the administration, management, and operation of NAVAA’s mission, she planned and implemented webinars, peer-to-peer meetings, annual training conferences and managed virtual meeting and conference platforms.