Meet Our Founder
Angelita Olowu
Angelita is a Forensic Nurse with 17+ years of nursing experience which includes working as an Emergency, Trauma, and Forensic Nurse. In her nursing practice, Angelita spent many years working at the bedside caring for patients across the lifespan in both an Emergency setting as well as while providing forensic nursing care. She has excelled at bedside nursing as well as in leadership nursing roles. Regardless of the role, Angelita has found that her passion and drive have come with ensuring that communities and individuals have access to excellent patient care.
Angelita spent the last 7 years of her career working at the International Association of Forensic Nurses supporting evidenced based-forensic nursing practice nationally and internationally on individual, programmatic, systemic, state, and countrywide levels. Angelita remains ardent about supporting and growing quality forensic nursing practice and access to quality medical forensic healthcare through systems improvement. Advancing responses to and the care of individuals across the lifespan that have experienced personal violence.
In addition to providing mentorship, support, technical assistance, developing and facilitating curricula, training, and resources, Angelita also managed and contributed to the development of forensic nursing national guiding documents through cooperative grant agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women. Such documents include the National Protocol for Intimate Partner Medical Forensic Examinations and the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations Adult/Adolescent 3rd Edition. She has also had the experience of working with a variety of universities, colleges, state coalitions, and other governmental agencies, such as the Office for Victims of Crime and the Peace Corps on a variety projects, trainings, and national resources.
Why Choose
Trace Forensic Health Strategies?
We are guided by a commitment to honesty, integrity, accountability and evidence-based medical forensic healthcare practice.
We prioritize aligning the response to and the care of survivors, with their individualized needs.
We promote the strengthening of clinicians with mentorship, education, guidance, and resources to enhance the encounter for both the clinician and the patient.
Work is conducted with rigor, transparency, and through interdisciplinary collaboration when appropriate, ensuring that all provided recommendations support high-integrity, sustainable programs.
We maintain the highest professional and ethical standards in all activities, consultations, training, and assessments.