glenna tinney, msw, acsw, dcsw, captain, u.s. navy (ret.)

Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.) is a consultant on violence against women, social justice, environmental justice, and animal rights. She has been a social worker for more than 45 years working primarily in violence against women and children.  She served in the Navy for 24 years working with military families and managing worldwide family violence and sexual assault programs in the Department of Defense.  Ms. Tinney is a member of the Advisory Board for NPEIV.  In recognition of her work, Ms. Tinney was selected by the White House as a Woman Veteran Champion of Change in March 2013. Ms. Tinney has numerous publications , including a chapter on intimate partner violence, women in the military, and women veterans in Women at War, published in 2015, and one on military sexual assault and one on intimate partner violence in Intimacy After Injury, published in 2016. In 2019, Ms. Tinney received a Lifetime Achievement in Family Violence Advocacy Award from IVAT.