Miriam Goodman is a Senior Policy Associate at the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG), where she leads gender-based violence (GBV) projects and supports a range of training initiatives focused on trauma-informed systems change. She brings over fifteen years of experience working with survivors of trauma across community-based, clinical, and policy settings. Prior to joining ISLG, Miriam served as the Director of the Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) program at the Women’s Prison Association (WPA), where she helped develop a trauma-responsive model to keep women in their communities rather than incarcerated. There, she specialized in supporting survivors of intimate partner violence and exploitation who had been criminalized for their survival and charged with violent felonies. Before WPA, Miriam was the Assistant Director of Anti-Trafficking and Trauma Initiatives at the Center for Court Innovation (CCI). In that role, she designed jail diversion programs for people arrested on prostitution charges and provided clinical support to frontline social workers, as well as national training for judges, attorneys, and clinicians. She also has experience as a therapist working directly with trauma survivors. Miriam holds a B.A. from Dickinson College and an M.S.W. from the NYU Silver School of Social Work.