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Alyssa KrugAlyssa Krug is the Founder and Director of The Foundation for the Prevention of Violence. Alyssa grew up being bullied for being the biggest kid in school. Because her bullies resorted to physical violence her parents put her into martial arts in the fourth grade. She fell in love with the discipline and has been an avid martial artist ever since. She studied Criminology at Utah Valley University where her interest in strengthening violence-prevention methods in communities and schools was born. The classroom is where she connected with a few of her professors, and professional mentor Gregory Cooper and other
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professors. Those amazing people have helped to guide Alyssa in her professional career and helped her find her path in the violence prevention sector. It was with their support that Alyssa Krug founded the Foundation for the Prevention of Violence, which received its nonprofit 501 © 3 letter from the IRS in 2019
Although she has had a varied career including professional security and security consulting, Alyssa’s most recent effort has focused on violence prevention amongst youth. She has worked to strengthen the defense programs in schools primarily throughout the state of Utah, additionally teaching self defense courses and criminal profiling and criminology. Her current goal is to widen the assessment to identify deviant behaviors that could suggest not only when a student shows potential for violence such as school shootings but also when concern is present about a student become a sexually violent perpetrator, become physically violent with peers, or engage in self mutilating behaviors or suicidal ideation.
To date, Krug has spent over 10,000 hours training self defense courses to over 4,800 people across the state of Utah and beyond. Her desire to prevent violence is paired with the knowledge from personal experience that victimization does unfortunately happen, especially at a disproportionate rate towards women.
Although she has had a varied career including professional security and security consulting, Alyssa’s most recent effort has focused on violence prevention amongst youth. She has worked to strengthen the defense programs in schools primarily throughout the state of Utah, additionally teaching self defense courses and criminal profiling and criminology. Her current goal is to widen the assessment to identify deviant behaviors that could suggest not only when a student shows potential for violence such as school shootings but also when concern is present about a student become a sexually violent perpetrator, become physically violent with peers, or engage in self mutilating behaviors or suicidal ideation.
To date, Krug has spent over 10,000 hours training self defense courses to over 4,800 people across the state of Utah and beyond. Her desire to prevent violence is paired with the knowledge from personal experience that victimization does unfortunately happen, especially at a disproportionate rate towards women.