Wanda Lucibello

Ms. Lucibello is the Chief of the Special Victims Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.  She has conducted training programs for police, prosecutors and service providers in the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases in conjunction with the National College of District Attorneys and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute.  At the request of the United States Department of State, she spent several weeks in 1998 and 2000 in Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, and in 2008 the Caribbean, and Central America where she worked with prosecutors and women's groups on new legislative initiatives in family violence.  In conjunction with the Office on Violence Against Women in Washington, D.C., she assisted in the preparation of a prosecutor's guide on Full Faith and Credit in Interstate Orders of Protection.  Ms. Lucibello helped to develop a training curriculum for the National Institute on the Prosecution of Domestic Violence in conjunction with the Office on Violence Against Women and the American Prosecutors Research Institute.  She was awarded the Robert N. Kaye Memorial Award by the Kings County Criminal Bar Association in May 2004, the Governor’s Justice Award to End Domestic Violence in October 2004 and the National College of District Attorneys, Lecturer of Merit Award in October 2005.  She also served on the National Advisory Board for the President’s Family Justice Center Initiative, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Family Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York.