Podcast Episode: A Conversation That Still Matters. Domestic Violence, Storytelling, and Survivor-Led Systems
Sometimes the most important conversations resurface at exactly the right time.
In this powerful episode of the Grays Peak Strategies podcast, we sit down with Dr. Jeneile Luebke, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Grays Peak Strategies Consultant, and enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
Dr. Luebke has partnered with Grays Peak through the SAVES grant with the Lac Courte Oreilles Child Support Program, an OCSE 1115 Grant focused on helping families access child support services safely when they are experiencing family violence. Her work centers on understanding the lived experiences of gender-based violence through storytelling and advancing survivor-led, trauma-informed, and culturally safe screening methods, particularly for Indigenous survivors.
In this conversation, Dr. Luebke shares how her personal and professional journey led her to this work. We explore the intersections of domestic violence, systems involvement, and cultural safety. The conversation centers around what it truly means to design services that protect rather than retraumatize.
Although this interview was recorded some time ago and briefly lost in the shuffle, rediscovering it felt like uncovering a treasure. As the SAVES grant and related services approach their conclusion, this conversation is both timely and urgent. We have made meaningful progress, but there is still much more to do.
This episode is a reminder that systems change does not begin with policy, it begins with listening.
🎧 Tune in to hear Dr. Luebke’s insights on survivor-led systems, culturally grounded care, and what it takes to build safer pathways for families navigating violence.
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Dr Luebke', center, with GPS team members and LCO members in DC for a SAVES All Grantees meeting
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Jeneile Luebke, PhD, RN, is a registered nurse and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an enrolled member of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and is part of the crane clan. She is a member of Wisconsin’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Taskforce. She received an Outstanding Woman of Color award in 2025. She leads the annual Native Nations Nursing, Helpers, and Healers Summit and is a Co-Director of the Center for Indigenous Research to Create Learning and Excellence (CIRCLE) program on campus. Her research aims to better understand the lived experiences of gender-based violence through storytelling, as well as advocating for survivor-led, trauma-informed, and culturally safe screening methods and interventions for Indigenous survivors of violence using Indigenous-specific and community-engaged research methodologies.
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