Jane Manning is Director of the Women’s Equal Justice Project, where she helps sexual assault survivors navigate the criminal justice system. A former sex crimes prosecutor, she has devoted her career to combating gender-based violence, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking. Her efforts helped eliminate New York State’s statute of limitations on rape, and she helped write New York’s laws against strangulation and human trafficking.

She trains first-year prosecutors on interviewing crime victims and teaches as an adjunct professor at Hunter College. Her commentary has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and many other outlets.