Magazine: Ms. Magazine 2021 Ms. Conversation: Jessica Lenahan, Ms. Magazine (Fall 2021).
Newspaper: News Ghana August 17 2021 UN Women: Gender-Responsive Policing, Pivotal to Confidence in Law Enforcement, News Ghana (August 17, 2021).
Newspaper: The National Tribune August 11 2021 Racial Bias Must be Addressed to Create Real Change in Police Responses to Gender-Based Violence, The National Tribune (August 11, 2021).
Newspaper: New York Times March 18 2021 Biden’s Aid Package Funnels Millions to Victims of Domestic Abuse, New York Times (March 18, 2021) (on the nexus between housing and safety for domestic violence survivors).
Internet: UNews February 22 2021 Gender-Based Violence In Latin America A Prevalent Problem, UNews ((February 22, 2021) (on best ways to get accurate data on the risk factors and burden of violence against women and children).
Internet: Business Insider January 19 2021 Presenting: Meet Joe Biden, America’s Imperfect Leader, Business Insider (January 19, 2021) (on my experience working for Joe Biden).
Newspaper: The Miami Herald October 29 2020 Domestic Violence Survivors Need More Help Than Ever During Pandemic, The Miami Herald (October 29, 2020) (on increased needs of survivors to public transportation, childcare, and schooling).
Newspaper: The Nation October 7 2020 A Reckoning Inside the Domestic-Violence Movement, The Nation (October 7, 2020) (on the critique of the criminal legal system by domestic violence advocates).
Internet: Bloomberg Law September 29 2020 Skadden Foundation Tackles Covid Legal Issues Impacting Poor, Bloomberg Law (September 29, 2020) (noting the Skadden Foundation’s support for the UM Human Rights Clinic’s COURAGE project, to examine the impact of COVID-19 on domestic violence service providers in South Florida).
Magazine: The New Statesman June 6 2020 The Shadow Pandemic: 243 Million Women Have Experienced Physical Or Sexual Abuse In The Last Year, The New Statesman (June 6, 2020) (discussing global responses to domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic).
Internet: Folha de Sao Paulo February 18 2019 Clovis Rossi, Parece vodu, mas a desgraça no Haiti é a corrupção, Folha de Sao Paulo (February 18, 2019) (discussing the current situation in Haiti about Brazil’s role in the UN Mission in Haiti).
Internet: domesticshelters.org January 9 2019 Stepahanie Thurrott, Tragedy as a Catalyst for Change, domesticshelters.org (January 9, 2019).
Internet: UNews October 13 2018 Film Chronicles a Mother’s Fight for Justice, U News@TheU (October 13, 2018) (on working on the Lenahan case since 2006).
Internet: NBC News October 3 2018 Kristina Puga, ‘Home Truth’ shows a mother's fight for justice after her husband killed their 3 daughters, NBC News (October 3, 2018) (discussing new documentary film about my client).
Newspaper: The Miami Herald September 27 2018 Colleen Wright and Alex Harris, Kavanaugh’s judiciary hearing becomes teachable moment for UM, FIU students, The Miami Herald (September 27, 2018).
Internet: HuffPost February 12 2018 Dana Liebelson, In Rob Porter Case, Trump Sends A Message: We Will Protect Powerful Alleged Abusers, HuffPost (February 12, 2018) (domestic violence workplace policies and the White House).
TV: Canada’s CBC News Network February 12 2018 Interview re Rob Porter domestic violence story and the White House response.
Internet: The Guardian February 11 2018 Lois Beckett, Domestic Violence Group Describes ‘Heartbreaking’ Decline in Progress Under Trump, The Guardian (February 11, 2018) (domestic violence and the Trump White House).
TV: Human Rights Watch Film Festival June 2017 Home Truth:: The Chronicling of the Life and Work of Jessica Gonzales Lenahan and the First-Ever Case Brought by a Domestic Violence Survivor Against the United States of America in a Human Rights Tribunal (Documentary Film, premiered June 2017 at Human Rights Watch Film Festival; PBS premier forthcoming, Fall 2018).
Internet: BUZZFEED April 13 2017 Tyler Kingkade, Meet the Teen Sexual Assault Survivors Who Took on Their School District and Won (concerning sexual assault in high schools).
Internet: BUZZFEED April 03 2017 Tyler Kingkade, Members of Congress Are Starting a Bipartisan Task Force on Sexual Violence (addressing federal government initiatives on violence against women).
Other: INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST March 8 2017 Sasha Chavkin, Lawsuit: World Bank Arm Aided Firm that Hired ‘Death Squads’ (concerning immunity challenges to alleged human rights abuses in Honduras).
Internet: Indianz.com October 13 2016 White House Hosts Meeting on Violence Against Indigenous Women.
Other: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary October 13 2016 White House to Host Inaugural North American Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women & Girls Meeting.
Other: Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Treatment October 7 2016 Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Treatment Board Meeting Minutes
Other: MeriTalk October 6 2016 Open Data Helps Police, Victims in Violence Against Women Cases
Other: ABA Journal October 1 2016 Campuses that Handle Sexual Assaults Must Balance Victims’ Rights, Due Process
Other: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice July 29 2016 NIJ’s Research for the Real World Seminar Series: National Institute of Justice
Other: Sunlight Foundation May 4 2016 Lessons learned from a year of opening police data
Newspaper: The Daily Orange April 2016 Documentary Screening and Panel About Sexual Assault Held as Part of ‘It’s On Us’ National Week of Action
Other: DC Volunteer Lawyers Project April 22 2016 Voices Against Violence Press Release
Internet: Napleshelter.org April 16 2016 Shelter for Abused Women & Children: Day 13 - Shelter for Abused Women & Child
Other: Organization of American States March 8 2016 Breaking Barriers to Justice: Ending Violence Against Women in the Americas
Internet: Womenshealth.org February 9 2016 Assessing Campus Climate to Change Campus Culture
Radio: Local News – 90.7 WMFE January 27 2016 OPD [Orlando Police Dept.] to Make Public Data on Sexual Assaults And Other Crimes
Other: City of Orlando January 26 2016 The City of Orlando Previews Open Data Website with Representatives from the White House
Other: PAHO WHO December 2 2015 Experts point to progress, challenges in ending the global epidemic of violence against women
Other: Columbia Law School October 19 2015 Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Celebrates Human Rights at Home
Other: Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma September 2015 Building a Trauma-Informed Nation Moving the Conversation into Action
TV: The Women of Color Network (WOCN) September 1 2015 First Anniversary Advocating for the Lives of Women and Families in Communities of Color
Other: Hall of Americas - Organization of American States June 19 2015 Violence, Health, and Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Internet: Convo Labs June 14 2015 President Obama Designates June 15th Elder Abuse Day
Other: California Coalition Against Sexual Assault June 3 2015 Impressions on the 2015 Women of Color Network National Call to Action Summit and Conference
Internet: War on Domestic Terrorism May 27 2015 Letter to White House - VAW Advisor Carrie Bettinger-Lopez - Women's Rights
Magazine: The Atlantic May 15 2015 Carrie Bettinger-Lopez is White House Adviser on Violence Against Women in the Office of the Vice President
Internet: Communitynewspapers.com May 4 2015 Bettinger-Lopez named White House Advisor on Violence Against Women
Other: Futures Without Violence April 28 2015 Open Square Summit
Other: U S Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri April 23 2015 New White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Sits Down with McCaskill to Talk Policy
Newspaper: The Miami Herald March 4 2015 UM Associate Professor Appointed White House Advisor on Violence Against Women
Internet: Human Rights at Home Blog February 17 2015 Human Rights Lawyer to Serve as White House Advisor on Violence Against Women
Other: MSNBC September 17 2014 Irin Carmon, How the Supreme Court turned its back on domestic violence (discussing legal gaps in the context of violence against women)
Radio: WLRN, Miami Herald News, Latin America Report September 17 2014 Tim Padgett, Does Escaping El Salvador's Nightmare Abortion Law Mean Flying To Miami? (discussing El Salvador’s draconian anti-abortion laws and practice)
TV: Jamaican News Network March 25 2014 Beyond the Headlines (discussing Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on U.S. Stand Your Ground laws).
TV: Investigation Discovery March 17 2014 Stalked: Someone’s Watching (featuring the case of Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.)
TV: Jamaican News Network October 10 2013 Beyond the Headlines (discussing Haitians rendered stateless in the Dominican Republic).
TV: Al Jazeera Television October 2 2013 Al Jazeera (addressing the Dominican Republic Constitutional Tribunal’s decision stripping Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship).
Internet: IRISH INDEPENDENT May 26 2013 Carol Hunt, We Must Tend to Our Issues on the Home Front, (addressing women’s human rights at the international and domestic levels).
Radio: Pacifica Radio January 12 2012 Global Movements’ Urban Struggles (discussing the Miami Human Rights Clinic’s work on deportations to Haiti).
Radio: National Public Radio May 9 2011 The Kojo Nnamdi Show (discussing post-earthquake deportations from the U.S. to Haiti).
Internet: New York Times March 21 2011 Strangers in a Strange Land (video documenting Haitian deportations from the U.S. and Miami Law Human Rights Clinic’s work on the issue).
Internet: N.Y. TIMES January 19 2011 Kristopher Rios, After Long Fight, Farmworkers in Florida Win an Increase in Pay (citation to statement concerning new labor code of conduct/farmworker agreement in Florida’s tomato industry).
Radio: National Public Radio January 14 2011 WLRN Miami Herald News (discussing fact-finding trip to Haiti re U.S. deportations to Haiti).
Radio: Public Radio International January 14 2011 The World: U.S. Resumes Haitian Deportations (discussing U.S. deportations to Haiti).
TV: Telemundo October 27 2009 Perdió a Sus Hijas y Busca Justicia (She Lost Her Daughters and Searches for Justice) (feature story about Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales)).
Internet: LISTIN DIARIO July 6 2009 Corte Conoce Caso Familias Haitianas Expulsadas de RD (Court Hears the Case of Haitian Families Expelled from the Dominican Republic), (describing case before Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning mass expulsions of ethnic Haitians from the Dominican Republic).
Radio: Radio Netherlands July 4 2008 The State We’re In: What’s in a Name? (addressing nationality rights of ethnic Haitians born in the Dominican Republic).
Radio: Colorado Public Radio October 22 2007 Colorado Matters (discussing case of Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.).
Internet: COLORADO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS October 18 2007 Mother Haunted by Daughters’ Deaths (describing Jessica Lenahan v. U.S. case).