Tricia Swartling

Tricia Swartling

Tricia is the CEO of the Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The Advocates works to end power based personal violence and promotes healthy relationships in the Wood River Valley and its surrounding counties. They envision a compassionate community free from emotional and physical abuse. Tricia is a certified fund raising professional, grant writing educator, active philanthropist. She was a founding member of the Little Black Dress Club – Wood River and the Wood River Women’s Foundation. At the statewide level, Swartling is the President of the Board of Directors of the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence and Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Idaho Nonprofit Center. She spent seven years on the Board of Directors of the Idaho Community Foundation and in 2018 was honored as a Friend of the Foundation. In 2019, she was selected as a CEO of Influence in the State by the Idaho Business Review. A graduate of Stanford University and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Swartling found inspiration and her passion for nonprofit work and women’s issues at the Haight Ashbury Free Women’s Clinic in San Francisco. Born in Hawaii and raised in Southern Idaho, she returned to Idaho in 1993. Tricia enjoys quad espressos, chocolate, an active outdoor lifestyle and adventure traveling with her partner, children and friends. When not at work, you can find Tricia on the trails by foot, ski or bike.