Women's Rights in the Workplace - Economic Abuse as a Form of Intimate Partner Violence - 10/13/14

Join Jack and Deborah as they interview Amanda Norejko, Esq., the Director of the Matrimonial and Economic Justice Project at the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, New York’s largest nonprofit agency exclusively dedicated to serving the clinical, economic, legal, and shelter needs of victims of gender-based violence and their children. Ms. Norejko is an attorney who has represented victims of domestic violence and sex trafficking in family law and matrimonial matters in New York City for more than a dozen years. She engages in legislative and policy advocacy aimed at combating violence against women and promoting women’s economic empowerment on the local, state, national, and international level.  Ms. Norejko is one of NY’s leading experts and practitioners in the laws protecting victims of DV and human trafficking, and she provides a wealth of practical information for anyone needing to know what steps to take in order to break the cycle of power and control at the heart of intimate partner violence and human trafficking.