Trish Perlmutter (she, her, hers) serves as Associate Director for Policy, Outreach, and Community Relations for the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights. In that role she supports the Policy and Community Relations Units’ work to prevent and eliminate discrimination and bias in the Garden State. She has led policy initiatives to address discrimination and harassment in schools, algorithmic discrimination, disparate impact discrimination, workplace pregnancy and breastfeeding accommodations, as well as other cutting-edge civil rights issues.

Throughout her career, she has sought to remedy systemic injustice and drive institutional reform. Previously, Trish worked to advance the legal rights of survivors of domestic and sexual violence through legislation, court reform, and other measures as Policy Counsel at Partner (a New Jersey non-profit providing free legal assistance to survivors). She is the principal author of, In Their Own Words: Domestic Violence Survivors on Seeking Safety & Law Enforcement Responses, (September 2021), and The Impact of COVID 19 Intensifies the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence in New Jersey (December 2020).

Prior to that, Trish was a clinical professor at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she taught and successful litigated class action lawsuits on behalf of detained persons held in New Jersey state and county correctional facilities. Trish began her career in private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, after clerking for federal district judge, H. Lee Sarokin. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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