Ms. Black is a registered nurse with 22 years’ experience specializing in forensic nursing, clinical simulation training, didactic education, project management, grant writing, legislative policy analysis and implementation, multidisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and technical assistance. In addition to founding and leading a community-based sexual assault nurse examiner program, Ms. Black has developed and delivered SANE didactic and simulation education. She was a site investigator on a multi-site interdisciplinary research project, The Better Tomorrow Network, examining long-term impacts of sexual violence on physical and mental health, for which she has served on the Board of Directors since 2023, contributing to several peer-reviewed journal publications. She currently serves on the Texas Governor’s Sexual Assault Survivors Task Force and as President of Texas IAFN.