Raven Buckingham Aäe

I advise leaders and institutions working at the intersection of gender-based violence, public safety, and democratic systems.

My work focuses on helping agencies, policymakers, media leaders, and cross-sector institutions recognize patterns of harm early, communicate about them accurately, and build responses that prevent escalation.

I am the founder of Haliruna Consulting and an appointed Commissioner on the Washington State Supreme Court's Gender & Justice Commission. My work spans strategy, policy, training, and systems design, with particular expertise in stalking, coercive control, firearms-related risk, and the institutional conditions that allow violence to persist. I bring a distinct rural democratic systems lens to this work.

I take a small number of executive advisory engagements each year. The work is narrow by design: stalking, coercive control, firearm violence prevention, and the rural implementation of recent legislative wins.

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The geographic locus

The rural West anchors my work. Urban institutions, staffed by people who have never spent a winter in a town of four hundred, make most of the decisions about national policy and global rural realities. My work argues that rural communities deserve their own specialized scholarship—that they are not backward cities waiting to catch up, but harbingers of what happens when democracy operates without attention or proper accountability mechanisms. The failures rural communities absorb first are the failures the country will see at scale wherever oversight and capacity thin out.

Haliruna is not a remote-work consultancy that happens to sit in a small town. The geography is the practice. The relationships are the practice. The cultural fluency it takes to move between a county sheriff's office, an attorney general, a state policy room, a national gun violence prevention foundation, a shooting range, and a kitchen table in a valley where the closest hospital is sixty miles away—that fluency is the work. No one can import it from anywhere else.

Honors and accomplishments

• Led legislative advocacy for 2024 Washington State bipartisan legislation defining stalking as a public health epidemic, including a budget proviso fully funding remedial training for Okanogan County Sheriffs Office on gender-based violence
• Built the advanced DV training program at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission
• Founder, Methow Valley School District Emergency Preparedness Subcommittee (2023)
• Led the first large-scale safe storage distribution effort in Okanogan County—more than four hundred devices placed directly into community hands
• Guest lecturer at Washington State University and speaker at the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
• Presented at the Conference on Crimes Against Women, the End the Violence Conference, and the Washington State Public Health Association Conference
• Commissioner, Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission (2025–2028)
• Hunter Educator, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Certified instructor: Tactical Social Interaction and Community Resiliency Model

I am a mother, an ultra-endurance athlete, and live in unincorporated Okanogan County.

Contact

Engagement inquiries reach the Haliruna office at inquiries@haliruna.com. Substantive responses come from Raven directly.

Public writing and current activity on LinkedIn.