Amalfi Parker Elder, Esq.

Amalfi started working in the gender-based violence movement 14 years ago as a survivor and student attorney in Tulane Law School's Domestic Violence Law Clinic and continued to represent survivors in protection order and family law proceedings as a private practitioner. Amalfi has developed and supported Coordinated Community Responses (CCR) to intimate partner violence for over ten years. She first coordinated the implementation of the New Orleans Blueprint for Safety policies for seven criminal legal system agencies, while addressing the disproportionately high DV arrest rate of Black women. She has since provided national training and technical assistance to CCRs across the country. Amalfi directs BWJP's National Center on Reimagining CCR, establishing approaches and support for advocates and allied professionals on centering survivor and culturally specific realities in CCR interventions. Amalfi is a former President of the New Orleans Family Justice Alliance Board.