In Season 15, Episode 10 of The Explainer Podcast, gender violence expert Professor Donna Coker breaks down how proposed cuts to federal food and health programs cost states and disproportionately harm women and victims of domestic violence. Listen to the podcast here.
Additionally, Coker recently gave a virtual lecture on LEX Research Network, an international organization of academics and researchers interested in developing and supporting transdisciplinary scholarship on law, gender, and sexuality. The lecture focused on the impact of the current administration’s policies on women and sexual minorities, with particular emphasis on gender-based violence.
Coker teaches Evidence, Substantive Criminal Law, Gender Violence and Social Justice, Social Justice Lawyering, Restorative Justice and Law; Mass Incarceration: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies, and Criminal Justice Policy Reform. She has twice received a Provost’s Research Award from the University of Miami. Law students awarded her the Hausler Golden Apple teaching award in 2015. Professor Coker served as Academic Associate Dean from 2005-2009.
