ABOUT WENDY
Wendy is an ex-prosecutor who specialized in child abuse and sex crimes
cases. The first lawyer in the country to run a program to provide
free legal services to crime victims, Wendy has been fighting for
victims' rights for twenty years.
Having served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy now
represents crime victims in civil and criminal cases and teaches an
advanced seminar on sexual violence at the New England School of Law in
Boston. As an adjunct professor, she also manages the Sexual Violence
Legal News and Judicial Language projects at her law school and
consults with crime victims across the country to help them achieve
justice.
Wendy writes scholarly and pop culture articles, and lectures widely on
victims' rights, sex crimes, violence against women and children, media
coverage of crime and the criminal justice system. Wendy has worked as
a legal analyst for CBS News, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She appears
regularly on cable and network news programs to provide commentary on
legal news stories. And Justice For Some is her first book.
A former NFL cheerleader, Wendy has also written three childrens'
books. She lives outside Boston with her husband and five children.