Monica Ghosh Driggers
Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
Gender and Justice
This statewide project combines human rights fact-finding, qualitative research, advocacy, and community organizing to document and address the injustices inflicted on battered mothers and their children during family court child custody and visitation litigation.
Creating a Family Court Advocacy Training Curriculum for Battered Minority and Immigrant Women
Empowering Battered Immigrant Women
Through this project we will develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women. This project is intended to directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive, strategic knowledge.
Improving the Court Approach to Domestic Violence Cases in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Massachusetts Domestic Violence Data Collection
This project will provide systematic data on court cases involving domestic violence in Massachusetts.
Q & A with Monica Driggers: An Update on the Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
Monica Driggers, research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, has been working on court and criminal justice reform for nearly a decade. Driggers joined the team working on the Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project in 2002 and was one of the authors of its ground-breaking report released that year. She continues to advocate for the reforms proposed in the report. Her current projects include research and reform of parole processes in Massachusetts and an investigation of female prisoners’ connections to their children.
Seminar on prison motherhood
Seminar on prison motherhood
Milford Daily News
Jon Brodkin
November 8, 2006
The Courtroom in a Diverse Society: Understanding the Need for Cultural Competence
This past summer, few of us could escape the media’s relentless coverage of the controversy surrounding the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Perhaps not surprisingly, the controversy centered on her racial background rather than on her long and impeccable record as a judge, or on her peers’ opinions of her abilities.
What Do Abused Women of Color and Immigrant Women Experience during Family Court Proceedings?
Interviewing Battered Women of Color
Battered women of color often report that they do not receive fair treatment in family courts and that the courts’ insufficiencies can lead to devastating consequences for them and for their children.
Women's Rights Network
Gender and Justice
This inactive project examined women's rights and continued indirectly through the Gender and Justice Project and the Battered Mother's Testimony Project.