Justine Andronici

Justine has devoted her career to advocating for women's rights, victims rights and social justice. Ms. Andronici is a trainer, consultant, advocate, attorney, educator, and expert in the arenas of sexual assault, domestic violence, and women's rights and workplace discrimination.

Justine Andronici has spent her 25 year career working to empower women and advance social justice. Justine utilizes her unique combination of legal, advocacy, project development and strategic communications experience to train other legal system professionals and assist non-profit social justice organizations in strategic planning, project development and strategic communications.

Ms. Andronici has extensive experience in women's rights and victims rights. Her civil practice areas have included sexual assault, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and civil rights civil law, including Title IX, Title IV, Section 1983 cases. Ms. Andronici represented multiple survivors in the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State University sexual abuse cases. Her clients included Matt Sandusky, survivors identified as victim's 2, 3, 7 and 10 in the Sandusky criminal proceedings, and others.

Ms. Andronici has extensive experience as an organizer, and project leader and communications specialist as well as as an attorney in the trenches. She has has worked with thousands of survivors of sexual assault, sexual abuse, domestic violence and discrimination in the course of her career, helped to launch multiple community based domestic violence and sexual assault legal services programs, and has planned and led major projects for non-profit organizations. Justine now serves as a consultant and expert trainer for other legal system professionals, advocates and non-profit organizations.

Ms. Andronici began her legal career as a Georgetown Law Women, Law and Public Policy Fellow, working on state and federal legislative issues related to reproductive rights. After completing her fellowship, she entered the courtroom as a victim’s rights attorney. She has represented survivors in private practice, as well as while serving as lead counsel at several legal services programs including the Centre County Women's Resource Center and the Maryland Women’s Law Center, and Huntingdon House, in Huntingdon PA.

Prior to obtaining her law degree, Ms. Andronici worked on a wide range of women’s rights, civil rights and social justice issues as a grassroots organizer, project director and communications director for the Feminist Majority Foundation in Los Angeles California and Washington D.C.

Ms. Andronici has more than two decades of experience in the non-profit, social justice and social service sector and has served as a contributing writer and Advisory Board Member for Ms. Magazine and has served on several national and state non-profit boards, including the National Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Ms. Andronici has earned numerous national awards for her work as an attorney, advocate and leader. She earned her J.D. cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Sparer Public Interest Fellow. She received her B.A. cum laude from Colgate University with honors in political science.

Ms. Andronici is a member of the Bar in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C.(inactive) and Massachusetts (inactive).

Ms. Andronici is an intersectional feminist, survivor and survivor advocate with a unique lens. She has an understanding of rural American life and politics. She grew up in the Philly suburbs in NJ, went to college in a small town in Central NY, spent her early career in the Los Angeles and the DC area, and went to law school in Philadelphia. Justine has worked in DC as an activist and lawyer learned to practice domestic violence law in Baltimore. In 2006, she moved to rural Central Pennsylvania where she lives in the mountains with her husband, peahen, dog and cat.

Expertise includes: Women’s Empowerment, #MeToo, Violence Against Women, Sexual Violence, Sexual Harassment, Child Sexual Abuse, Reproductive Justice, Abortion Rights, Women in Politics, Rural Culture and Politics, Progressive Politics, Wellness.