Danielle Pollack is the Policy Manager at the National Family Violence Law Center at GW Law in Washington D.C. and the originator of Kayden’s Law. She works in close collaboration with state and federal lawmakers, partner organizations, advocates, and families to create comprehensive child-centric policy reform and provide public education on family courts.
She has advised on, co-drafted, and provided testimony on custody and coercive control laws enacted in many states and federally, including the newly enacted section of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Title XV, called the Keeping Children Safe From Family Violence Act (aka “Kayden’s Law”), signed into law by President Biden in March of 2022. The new federal law incentivizes states to train family court judges and court personnel on coercive control and other types of family violence and restricts them from making child endangering custody orders.
Her recent state work includes Connecticut’s coercive control law Jennifers’ Law, Colorado’s Julie’s Law, Florida’s Greyson’s Law, Pennsylvania’s Kayden’s Law and Washington State’s new coercive control law. Her short documentary film, Voices for Reform, about family court system failures when children are at risk of violence has been used to raise awareness at the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and in courts and at universities internationally. She is co-founder of the National Safe Parents Organization (NSPO) and co-director of The Court Said USA.