Suzanne Tomatore

Address: 42 W 44th St., New York, NY, 10036, US
Tel: 212-382-6717
linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-tomatore-9606087
Specialist areas of work and services:
  • Begging
  • Child Marriage
  • Debt Bondage
  • Domestic Servitude
  • Forced Criminality
  • Forced Labour
  • Forced Marriage
  • General
  • Hotel & Retail
  • International Adoption
  • International Marriage Brokering
  • Nail Bars
  • Peddling Ring
  • Prostitution & Sex Slavery
  • Sex Trafficking
  • Sports

Description:
U.S. attorney with almost twenty years of expertise working with crime victims including survivors of human trafficking.

Experience, Background and Services:
Suzanne Tomatore, Esq. is the Co-Director of Immigrant Justice Projects (IJP) at the City Bar Justice Center. Ms. Tomatore has almost twenty years experience representing survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, child abuse and violent gender-based crimes in immigration and other civil legal matters. She has trained pro bono attorneys, judges, community-based organizations, health-care providers, law enforcement and government officials on human trafficking. She has lectured on this topic across the United States and abroad, including Canada, Venezuela, Mongolia and the Philippines. Ms. Tomatore has participated in international delegations to Warsaw and Brussels. She was a co-chair of the Freedom Network from 2011-2013 and she sat on the inaugural board as treasurer. She is an active participant of multiple anti-trafficking task forces including the Brooklyn DA’s Human Trafficking Task Force and was a founding member of the New York Anti-trafficking Network. Ms. Tomatore was an instructor in immigration law at the City University of New York Graduate Center School of Professional Studies. Prior to joining the City Bar, she was a recipient of the Open Society Institute Community Fellowship for implementing and directing the Immigrant Community Domestic Violence Project, hosted by CUNY School of Law Immigrant Initiatives in New York City.