Jane Manning

Jane Manning is director of Women’s Equal Justice and an advocate for survivors of sexual assault.  She began her career as a prosecutor of domestic violence, sex crimes, and child abuse.  In private practice, she successfully represented a coalition of battered women’s organizations arguing amici curiae against a ruling allowing men who murdered wives or girlfriends to invoke the victim’s “nagging” as grounds for a reduced charge.  She then served as a human rights attorney with the organizations Equality Now and the National Organization for Women.  She helped draft New York’s first anti-trafficking statute and its anti-strangulation statute, and she helped lead a successful campaign to eliminate New York’s statute of limitations on rape.  She has trained prosecutors on interviewing crime victims and served as an adjunct professor at Hunter College.  As Director of Women’s Equal Justice, she partners with survivor-leaders to improve the justice system’s response to the violent and under-prosecuted crime of drug-facilitated sexual assault.