Elizabeth Estabrooks

ALLi Author Member

Elizabeth Estabrooks is a consultant, speaker, writer and author with subject matter expertise on women veterans, and a focus on equity and policy designed to improve services and outcomes. Since 1992, she has worked in the private, public, and non-profit sector on the topics of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, military sexual assault, peer support services, community and organizational planning, and gender- and culturally- responsive services. She has served as the Deputy Director at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Women Veterans and as the first Oregon Woman Veterans Coordinator with the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2017, she co-created the original I Am Not Invisible photo project of women veterans in Oregon and helped advance its expansion as a nationwide project. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Gender Studies and Political Science from Eastern Oregon University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. From 2021 – 2022 she was appointed to the VA Secretary’s Task Force on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access, the VA Sexual Assault Prevention Committee, and the National Gender Policy Council Workgroup. She was appointed to the VA National Domestic Violence Task Force in 2012, was a 2013 Fisher-Cummings Washington, D.C. Fellow, and is a Peacetime Cold War Era Army Veteran. Ms. Estabrooks retired in 2022 and lives in Portland, Oregon where she is writing her first book and publishes on Medium.