Leann has been with Project Empower since 2020, starting out as a VCU intern and then joining the team fulltime in 2021. Leann has her Master's in Social Work and a Graduate certificate in Gender Violence Intervention. She is currently a supervisee working towards licensure as a Clinical Social Worker. She is the primary advocate for the Heartbeats project, working with survivors who are pregnant and postpartum. Leann is also a Professional Birth Doula and she is passionate about her work supporting perinatal survivors of violence and abuse.