Amy Barasch

Adjunct Professor of Law

Amy Barasch has worked in City and State Government, the nonprofit sector, the private sector and academia. She has spent most of her professional career addressing challenges facing people living in poverty through a gender lens, and the issue of intimate partner violence in particular.

Ms. Barasch is current consulting; serving as the Director of a family foundation; and launching a collaborative initiative called The Divorce Lab. From 2014 - 2024, Amy Barasch Esq. served as the Executive Director of Her Justice, a non-profit that stands with women living in poverty in New York City by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers to provide free legal help to address individual and systemic legal barriers.

From 2007 to 2012, Ms. Barasch served as the Executive Director of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. Prior to joining state government, Ms. Barasch was an inaugural member of the New York City Office to Combat Domestic Violence, eventually being tapped to run the City's first Family Justice Center. Prior to joining New York City, Ms. Barasch represented victims of domestic violence in family court in private practice, and as the creator and director of a law student externship program in Westchester, New York at the Pace Women’s Justice Center.

Ms. Barasch joined the firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as an associate upon graduation from Columbia Law School in 1996, where she served as the associate in charge of pro bono. Ms. Barasch graduated from Brown University in 1986 and worked as a journalist and translator in the US and France prior to attending law school. Ms. Barasch has published and spoken publicly about partner violence, family courts and gender throughout her career.

Education

BA Brown University, 1986
JD Columbia Law School, 1996

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