Erika Sussman, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice (CSAJ), an organization dedicated to enhancing legal advocacy for survivors of domestic violence. CSAJ strives to meet this goal by cultivating a community of attorneys and advocates skilled in survivor-centered advocacy and capable of meeting the entire spectrum of civil legal assistance needs, through their own advocacy and in partnership with others.  For four years, she served as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, where she taught a seminar on Law and Violence Against Women.  She was previously a Teaching Fellow 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.  She was formerly 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.