Survivor-Centered Expert Services
Be Featured as a
Survivor-Centered Expert on the APA Marketplace
Turn your hard-won expertise into income — and into support for the advocates coming up behind you.
The knowledge our field needs already lives in the field. Survivor-Centered Expert Services is where advocates and survivor-leaders offer the professional services our movement asks for most — from strategy and analysis to the day-to-day support that keeps organizations running — and get paid for what they know.
Watch: an overview of the network
Getting Started Strong
Watch the 5-minute guideBefore you apply: see what your two letters of support should include.
See the network in action
Meet the Founding Survivor-Centered Experts
Browse the experts already in the directory, and watch them share who they help and how to work with them at our first Survivor-Centered Experts Showcase. Our next Showcase is Wednesday, December 2, 12–1 PM ET.
Know an expert you'd love to see booked? Gift them a year of extra business visibility in the network for $79.20 (regularly $99). $25 of every gift funds paid microcontracts for survivor-led businesses. Gift an Expert Listing
Why offer your services here?
Keep 100% of what you earn
Your clients pay you directly. APA takes no commission on your services — your expertise deserves full compensation.
Reach an audience already looking for you
More than 1,400 advocates, survivor-leaders, and organizations across the DV/SA field, browsing for the exact help you offer.
A profile that does the introducing
A full profile in the Survivor-Centered Expert Directory — your photo, your services, your rates, your intro video, and a button that takes buyers straight to your calendar. No audience to build first.
A designation that actually means something
When approved, buyers know you've been reviewed and vouched for by someone with 29 years in this work — not just self-declared.
The services you can offer
- 🗂 Administrative & Operations Support
- 🏢 Board Governance & Development
- 🤝 Mentoring
- 🎯 Coaching
- 📋 Grant Application Review
- 💰 Fundraising Strategy
- 📜 Policy Analysis
- 📊 Financial Grants Management Services
- 🔍 Data Analysis
- 🏛 Government Relations
- 🌱 Workplace Culture
- 🌍 Culturally Specific Strategy
- 🧭 Violence Prevention Strategy & Evaluation
- 🧑🏽 Lived Experience Engagement Strategy
- 🦋 Survivor-Led Solutions
- 💼 Fractional Leader
- 🔑 Executive Advisor
- 🎤 Keynotes, Training & Facilitation
What your listing looks like
When you're approved, you're published in the Survivor-Centered Expert Directory — a dedicated, searchable page on the marketplace where organizations come looking for exactly the help you offer.
Your profile includes
- ✅ Your photo and organization logo
- ✅ Your name, title, and organization
- ✅ The service categories you're listed under
- ✅ Your biography
- ✅ Your services and what they cost
- ✅ Your credentials and years in the movement
- ✅ Your intro video
- ✅ A booking button straight to your calendar
Buyers can filter the directory by service category, and by the communities you work with — faith-based, culturally specific, tribal, rural, LGBTQIA+, immigrant and refugee, disability and Deaf, youth, and trafficking — so the advocates who need your particular expertise can find it.
You don't build any of this. You send it once in your application, and I set up your profile.
The Survivor-Centered Expert Designation
This is a vetted directory — and that's the point. To be listed, you complete an application, record a short intro video introducing your expertise in your own voice, provide two letters of support, and share your resume. I personally review every application. When you're approved, you carry the Survivor-Centered Expert designation — an endorsement that tells buyers this person has been recognized by the field, vouched for, and is the real thing. That trust is what makes buyers choose an expert here over a stranger anywhere else.
What your two letters of support should include
Your letters show buyers that someone who has worked with you can speak to your expertise. Each letter should come from a past client, a partner organization, or a colleague who has worked with you.
A strong letter covers
- How the writer knows you and how long they've worked with you
- The work you did together: the project, training, or service
- What changed or improved because of your work
- Why they would recommend you to other programs and funders
- The writer's name, role, organization, and signature
Good to know
- A short letter is fine. One page is plenty.
- Letters should be written by someone else, not by you.
- Upload them as a PDF or Word document with your application.
- Letters are used for review only. They are not posted on your profile.
Annual Listing
$99 / year
About $9 a month — the lowest-risk way to put your expertise in front of the people who need it most.
- ✅ Keep 100% of what you earn — no commission
- ✅ A full profile in the Survivor-Centered Expert Directory
- ✅ The Survivor-Centered Expert designation — personally reviewed
- ✅ Intro video and professional profile front and center
- ✅ Direct Book button to your calendar or booking page
- ✅ Eligibility for expert spotlights in the APA newsletter
- ✅ No setup fee — list your full menu of services
This is the current rate. It may change as the directory grows; your rate stays what you signed up at.
Apply NowHow It Works
1. Apply
Complete the application — your services, a short intro video, two letters of support (see what to include), your resume, and a photo. About 25 minutes.
2. Get Approved
I personally review and vet every application. You'll hear back within 5 to 7 business days. Approval earns you the Survivor-Centered Expert designation.
3. Pay Your Annual Listing Fee
Once approved, you receive a direct link. $99 for the year. No setup fee, no commission.
4. Go Live
I build your profile from what you sent and publish it in the featured directory. Clients find you, book you directly, and pay you directly. You keep 100%.
You have expertise the field needs.
Join a community of advocates paying advocates — and get paid for what you're really good at.