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Yvette Butler is Center for Survivor Agency & Justice’s Director of Capacity Building and Systems Change. Her focus is to lead CSAJ's work to enhance the capacity of domestic and sexual violence lawyers, advocates, and other practitioners across the nation to engage in survivor centered economic individual advocacy, as well as enhance program and coalition capacity to effect systems change. In this role, Yvette will contribute to all of CSAJ’s projects, including launching a new, federally-funded Access to Justice for Survivors Project, which seeks to enhance advocates’ capacity to address the costs and remove the systemic economic barriers and inequities related to navigating safety.
Before joining CSAJ, Ms. Butler served as the Director of Policy and Strategic Partnerships with the Amara Legal Center, a DC-based non-profit providing legal services to sex workers and survivors of trafficking in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Ms. Butler also served as a law clerk to a federal magistrate judge in her home state of South Dakota. Immediately after law school, she served as a Civil Rights Attorney fellow, with the federal, civil rights litigation firm of Victor Glasberg & Associates. Ms. Butler earned her JD from George Washington University Law School and is licensed to practice in DC and Virginia.
Yvette Butler, J.D.
CSAJ Director of Capacity Building &
Systems Change
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