Vicki E. Light retired as an attorney with The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice (JRP) where she represented children in the NYC Family Courts. While at The Legal Aid Society. Ms. Light initiated and coordinated JRP’s division-wide Trauma Advocacy Project (TAP), a project focused on enhancing the representation of subject children in sexual and physical abuse cases.

In addition to her direct representation, Ms. Light presented workshops at local, national and international conferences on the subjects of domestic violence, the representation of abused and neglected children and addressing secondary trauma stress in a non-profit legal setting.

She was chairperson of JRP’s committee on Secondary Trauma Stress which in 2017 authored an article for the ABA Children’s Rights Litigation Section Newsletter entitled, The Hidden Cost of Empathy: How to Address Secondary Trauma Stress in a Child Law Office. In the Bronx Family Court, Ms. Light chaired its’ Teen Day committee and was member of the Early Engagement Group. Ms. Light was a member of the Bronx County Multidisciplinary Alliance on Child Abuse, a team of professionals who worked with abused children in this borough. For 19 summers, Ms. Light volunteered at Birch Family Camp, a camp for families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

 Ms. Light currently trains New York State caseworkers on the legal child protective practice through The Research Foundation for SUNY Stonybrook.    

Ms. Light holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, JD from Washington University School of Law and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.

Ms. Light is a Child Welfare Law Specialist with the National Association of Counsel for Children. Ms. Light holds a BA from University of Pennsylvania, JD from Washington University School of Law and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.