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Erika A. Sussman
Executive Director
 Erika Sussman is the Executive Director of the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice. For the past four years, she has served as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School where she teaches a class on Law and Violence Against Women. She was previously a staff attorney and Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center's Domestic Violence Clinic, where she supervised law students and litigated cases on behalf of domestic violence survivors in the District of Columbia. Prior to that, she was a litigation associate at Swidler Berlin Sherreff Friedman, LLP, where she provided pro bono representation to domestic violence survivors in conjunction with Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE) and co-counseled a race profiling class action suit against the Maryland State Police Department. She has published several articles and served as faculty for various academic and practitioner workshops related to violence against women. She obtained her B.S. from Cornell University, her J.D. from Cornell Law School, and her L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
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The CSAJ staff is dedicated to enhancing advocacy for survivors of oppression-based intimate partner violence. They strive to meet this goal by cultivating a community of attorneys and advocates who are skilled in survivor-centered advocacy and are capable of meeting the spectrum of survivors' civil legal assistance needs in partnership with others.
If you are an LAV Grantee and would like to contact the staff for individualized technical assistance, please log in and submit your question in the Technical Assistance Request form.
To contact the staff for other questions, please use the Contact Us form or call us at 202.552.8304.
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