Natasha Johnson-Lashley
An educator, lecturer and attorney, Natasha Johnson-Lashley is developing a non-profit agency which will provide legal services for African-American, African-Caribbean, and continental African survivors of gender-based violence. She says the need for this type of agency became apparent to her after working at a hotline for domestic abuse survivors and at non-profits such as Sanctuary for Families, where she created New York City’s only holistic legal services program for African survivors of domestic violence. Johnson-Lashley says, “I saw the significant number of women from throughout the African Diaspora that experienced similar forms of gender-based violence that were not considered intimate partner domestic violence and would not always have immediate domestic legal recourse. I wanted to do more and to be able to
provide long-term services that would simultaneously address current needs and work preemptively to address the systematic issues concerning gender-based violence throughout these communities.” -CB
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