Judy Berman

Judy Berman, Ph.D, is Deputy Director of DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. She directs DC Appleseed’s work on child support, special education, working poor families and children’s health. Before joining DC Appleseed in 2006, Ms. Berman worked with the Center for Effective Public Policy, a DC-based non-profit organization that focuses on national criminal justice policy, and specialized in the areas of women offenders, sex offenders, violence against women, crime victims, offender re-entry, and collaboration within the criminal justice system. Previously, Ms. Berman’s career focused on violence against women policy and advocacy. Ms. Berman received her doctorate in English with a concentration in American Studies and Gender Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Brown University.