Victims' Voices Heard
Meet Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors, where we share insights, updates, and information about our leadership team and their crucial role in guiding our organization toward success."
Grace Guan
Licenced Attorney
Grace is a licensed attorney specializing in Medicare compliance in the Greater Boston area. She immigrated from China at the age of thirteen and lived in Delaware until 2018. Grace has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Delaware and a Juris Doctor degree from Delaware Law School. She is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
In 2013, Ms. Guan completed the Severe Violence Dialogue Program, and subsequently, she has actively engaged with Victims’ Voices Heard by participating as a guest speaker for the Impact of Crime on Victims program.
Heather Sparrow-Murphy
Delaware Transplant
Heather Sparrow-Murphy is a Delaware transplant of thirteen years. After decades of sales and customer service Heather moved from Virginia Beach and made the decision to stay at home with her newborn and elementary school daughter. During that time she served as a mentor, Girl Scout leader and on a variety of boards. In 2020 she lost her seventeen-year-old daughter to an act of violence. After finally being able to participate in the criminal trial two years later, she came across a website on her own leading her to complete an entry for the Apology Letter Bank. This began her experience with Victims Voices Heard. “Being able to go into prisons and share my story has played such a pivotal role in my healing journey. I am finally being heard. I am passionate about what this program does and I hope I can give it back half of what it has given to me.”
Tara Smith
Interdisciplinary Studies Specialist
Board Secretary
Tara Smith began her journey with Victims’ Voices Heard as an intern in April 2019 and later became a board member in September of the same year.
Hailing from Laurel, Delaware, Tara earned her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, combining Philosophy and Sociology, from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. She furthered her education with an MA in Liberal Studies from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD. In May 2020, Tara achieved a second Master’s Degree in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, where she has continued to hone her skills in mediation, facilitation, and leadership.