Author: Amy Barasch

Amy Barasch, Esq., served as the executive director of Her Justice, a nonprofit that stands with women living in poverty in New York City, for the past 10 years. She has also served as the executive director of the New York state Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence; designed and ran NYC’s first Family Justice Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and has represented victims of domestic violence in family court in private practice and as part of a Pace Law School clinic. She teaches the class "Gender, Violence and the Law" at Fordham Law School as an adjunct professor.