Since 1985, Vicki E. Light has worked with The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice (JRP) as an attorney representing children in the NYC Family Courts. Ms. Light is currently coordinating 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 has participated in local and national 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 is 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 is the chairperson of its’ Teen Day committee and a member of the Early Engagement Group. Ms. Light also is a member of the Bronx County Multidisciplinary Alliance on Child Abuse, a team of professionals who work 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 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.