Angela DeCristofano (she/her)

Title: Advocacy Care Coordinator
Email: angela.decristofano@rutgers.edu

Angela DeCristofano serves as Advocacy Care Coordinator at Rutgers VPVA New Brunswick and provides case management, counseling, and advocacy to members of the Rutgers community impacted by violence. Angela holds a Master of Social Work and Certificate in Interpersonal Violence & Trauma from Rutgers University. Previously, at the Center for Research on Ending Violence, Angela served as a technical assistant and research assistant for projects focused on enhancing victim services for diverse populations of survivors of violence in higher education and community settings.

As a licensed clinical social worker, Angela has experience in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and traditional outpatient settings; she integrates modalities such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO-DBT) with somatic-based approaches and creative expression. Angela additionally applies trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming frameworks to psychotherapy and advocacy, emphasizing empowerment, collaboration, and connection.