Melissa Landsmann – Executive Director

Melissa Landsmann has served on WIT’s Board of Directors and is deeply passionate about addressing the societal and cultural impacts of domestic violence and substance, while empowering these courageous survivors.  Melissa is a strategic business leader with strong skills and experience gained from cutting-edge not-for-profit and for-profit organizations with demonstrated strength relating to organizational operations with a specific focus on organizational and change management, human resources, and relationship-building. She is privileged and honored to join the WIT team of dedicated professionals in the work that they do every day to empower and serve survivors. 

Irene L. Brantley – Program Director

Irene Lindsay Brantley’s passion is working to empower survivors of domestic violence and substance abuse to make positive changes in their lives, free of addiction, poverty, and violence. As Women In Transition’s Program Director, Irene is the force behind WIT’s free and confidential domestic violence and substance abuse services. Irene created WIT’s Sister Circle Peer Support group and Survivor’s Network, expanding WIT’s services to include therapy and multilingual programs.

In her spare time, Irene enjoys gardening, dancing, and playing with her dog Toby.

Our Board of Directors

Our Team

Our WIT team has many years of experience, in fields ranging from homeless advocacy to public health to veterinary care. 

We are dedicated and passionate professionals who are inspired to make the world a safer and healthier place. We do this work to educate people so they can feel empowered to protect themselves from violence, to be a compassionate listening ear for those who feel like they are suffering intimate partner violence alone, to be a loud voice in the streets drawing awareness to the fact that the fight for safety is not over, and to be powerful advocates for collaborative systems change. 

In our lives outside of WIT, we hike, hang with cats, volunteer for adult literacy, make soap, catch up on the latest movies, play the ukulele, crochet, read sci-fi and romance novels, and garden.