Jennifer Storm

Jennifer Storm is an international public speaker with over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and governmental relations, combined with a powerful personal story of survival from victimization and addiction. Today, with over twenty-seven years of active recovery, she has spent her life advocating for victims of crime, having worked on many high-profile cases, including helping victims/survivors of Jerry Sandusky, Bill Cosby, Catholic Clergy victims, and thousands of other cases in her twenty-year-long career as a victim advocate.

Ms. Storm is the current Director of Equity & Title IX at Muhlenberg College, overseeing all intake, assessments, investigations, and compliance efforts. Having served more than seven years as the Victim Advocate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 2013-2021 under the leadership and appointments of both Governor Tom Wolf and Tom Corbett after being unanimously confirmed by the state Senate on Dec. 10, 2013 as Victim Advocate, she was responsible for representing the rights and interests of crime victims within the Commonwealth and was the only person to receive back-to-back bipartisan appointments in the Commonwealth’s history.

She is the immediate past Board President of the National Crime Victim Law Institute. Mrs. Storm was sworn in as a member delegate for the American Corrections Association at the Winter Conference on February 7, 2021.

Ms. Storm has received numerous awards, including the 2012 Gail Burns Smith Award from the National Crime Victim Law Institute, presented at their annual conference for Excellence in Victims Services, the 2012 Liberty Bell Award from the Dauphin County Bar Association, and the 2011 Pathfinder Award for Excellence in Victims Services in the Commonwealth of PA presented by Governor Tom Corbett.

She was born and raised near Allentown, PA, and attended Northampton High School. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Services and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management from The University of Phoenix. She studied Human Resources and Dispute Management and resolutions at The ILR School of Cornell University.

She has been profiled or appeared in the following media: The Today Show, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, CBS 48 Hours Live to Tell program, The New York Times, People Magazine, Parents Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Curve Magazine, The Advocate, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, WE Magazine, Women Magazine, and E! News online. In 2002, Ms. Storm publicly debated Oliver North live on his syndicated talk show Common Sense with Oliver North regarding LGBTQ rights.

Ms. Storm has traveled the country giving keynotes, lectures, workshops, and panel discussions regarding victims’ rights, LGBT rights, addiction and recovery, and civil rights.

Jennifer lives with her son Victor in Camp Hill, PA.

Ms. Storm is the author of six critically acclaimed addiction, recovery, and victimization books. Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivors Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma, Blackout Girl: Tracing my Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault, Second Edition, Echoes of Penn State: Facing Sexual Trauma, Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up: A Guidebook Through Victimization for People in Recovery, Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery and Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America.  She is available for all speaking engagements, including keynote presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and book signings.

Jennifer has filmed a short documentary based on her first memoir, Blackout Girl.

Ms. Storm has recently developed a ten-week curriculum guided partly by her memoir/self-help book, Awakening Blackout Girk, designed to facilitate participants healing from addiction and sexual trauma. It is a risk/harm reduction course open to survivors of any historical sexual trauma/trespass as defined by the survivor who has sought relief from the impact of trauma through substance use. The course is not gender-specific.

Governor Tom Corbett “In 2013, I had the pleasure to appoint Jennifer Storm as Victim Advocate for Pennsylvania. Throughout my prosecutorial career, I was a strong believer in the need for victims to be recognized and assisted in the criminal justice system. I was very pleased to have an outstanding individual to appoint as the Victim Advocate. Her performance speaks for itself. She has been widely recognized, not only in Pennsylvania but nationally as a dedicated advocate for victims of crime.  I wish her the best in her future endeavors. “

Governor Tom Wolf “Jennifer Storm has served our commonwealth well as Victim Advocate, and she will be missed,” the governor said in a statement.

“Jennifer’s empathy, dedication, and ferocious commitment to justice made her an ideal advocate for victims and survivors throughout the commonwealth. I extend my thanks to Jennifer for all she has done to ease the burdens of victims and survivors and to address the challenges they face.”