Attorney General Josh Kaul appointed Shira Phelps to serve as the Executive Director for the Office of Crime Victim Services in March of 2023.
Shira has spent over 20 years working on victim service issues in numerous different organizations, including several years as a former employee of OCVS. Phelps left OCVS in 2021 to work at a center focused on addressing human trafficking in Native and Tribal communities across the country.
Shira graduated with a BA from The New School for Social Research – Eugene Lang College, NYC, in 2001 and a JD from UW Law School in 2007.