Ineabelle Geena Cruz is an unapologetic and fierce activist, speaker, and consultant. Ms. Cruz has spent the past two decades, addressing issues surrounding intimate partner violence, prevention and intervention, poverty, community, and economic development.
Ineabelle or Geena as she like to be known as, is the CEO Cruz Advocacy and Consulting, LLC where she has provided training to law enforcement, educational institutes, labor, community, and religious organizations on intimate partner violence/domestic violence. She has been advisor and mentor to community and school-based programs serving young women. She has provided awareness to high school students on dating violence, and stalking. She served as a CBTU chapter women's committee chair, PTA member, and mentor for youth and leaders throughout Rochester, NY.
Ineabelle partnered with Cornell University ILR School to create Workplace Violence Initiative a customized training for government, labor unions, Employee Assistant Programs, and religious organization on policies, prevention and intervention on domestic violence, workplace bullying behaviors and workplace violence. Ineabelle is currently the New York State Ambassador for The United State of Women an organization dedicated to convening, connecting, and amplifying voices in the fight for full gender equality.
She is founder of ROC with Her where she has registered over 500 youth and eligible individuals to vote and raises awareness on civic engagement. She co-founded and organizes the National Father's Day Pledge, an annual event established in 2014, which is observed in 50+ U.S. cities. Ms. Cruz has been a member of the Rochester/Monroe County Domestic Violence Consortium since 2005 and currently serving as the president for Survivors Advocating For Effective Reform.
Ineabelle served for six years as the Mayor and Superintendent appointee with the Rochester Joint School Board Construction board and currently serves as the Co-Facilitator on Guarantee Basic Income committee for the the City of Rochester . Ineabelle founded Heels of Greatness, Inc an organization that strives to bring access and awareness on public health, social justice, and relief efforts.
Ineabelle Geena Cruz was awarded numerous awards locally and nationally: Key to the City of Rochester in 2021 given by Mayor Lovely A Warren, Senator Joseph Robach, Monroe County Legislators, and Gate Town Supervisor recognitions for her efforts during COVID-19 in 2020 feeding over 1500 families, supplying over 6000 masks to her community and relief work in Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria. In 2018, she was awarded the National Coalition of Domestic Violence Voices Rising Award. She was the first Latina to receive the Regional Robert Wilson Award in Albany and the Frederick Douglass Award, she has also received the Women and Young Girls Empowerment Award, Psi Omega Zeta Sisterhood Award, the RESOLVE Grassroots Resolutionary Award, Mayoral recognition and several other awards for her activism and bridging the gap in her community.
Ms. Cruz is a certified mediator, personal life coach, and IRB professional. She holds a Master of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from SUNY College at Brockport and Bachelor of Science in Community & Human Services from SUNY Empire State College. She continues to become knowledgeable through networking, helping others and advocating for individuals in her community & nationally. She is able to do all these works through her dedication and relationship in God, wonderful leaders/mentors, sisterhood, and her faith.
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