
Lisette Yang brings to DPS CVRB over 18 years of experience working with crime victims. Her passion for victims began in 2005, when she became the first Latino Victim Advocate in the state of Arkansas. During her tenure in this role, she assisted more than 2,500 international crime victims. In 2012, she joined the Children’s Protection Center (CPC), a child advocacy center in Pulaski County, as their first bilingual child forensic interviewer and an advocate for some of their Spanish-speaking clients. A few years later, she was promoted to lead/senior forensic interviewer, a role that allowed her to interview close to 7,000 children and become a mentor for other less-experienced forensic interviewers.
In 2022, she joined the ChildFirst faculty. Her career as an interviewer included trainings in ChildFirst, Missouri and ChildFirst, Arkansas protocols for the forensic interviewing of children. In 2016, she obtained additional forensic interviewing training at the National Child Advocacy Center (NCAC) in Huntsville, Alabama, the first child advocacy center in the United States. Throughout her almost 11 years as a forensic interviewer, Lisette completed over 500 hours of training related to child abuse and crimes affecting children and teenagers. She collaborated with various agencies, including prosecuting attorney’s offices, Little Rock, North Little Rock, Maumelle, Sherwood, and Jacksonville Police Departments, the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas Crimes Against Children Division, DHS investigators, and federal agencies including the Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, the FBI, and Homeland Security investigations agencies.
When she was not interviewing, Lisette provided trainings for the Krimes Against Kids Conference in Florida, the UALR MidSOUTH Conference, UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, the Little Rock Police Academy, elementary schools personnel, as well as others in the community.
Lisette holds bachelor’s degrees in advertising and graphic design from Mexico, and in interdisciplinary studies with concentrations in Spanish, psychology, and criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She and her husband have one child, Carlos, who attends Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.