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Jacqui grew up in Melbourne, where she studied Law and worked as a lawyer, including on the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence.  She won a Sir John Monash Scholarship and was able to complete a Master of Law in New York and get admitted to the New York Bar.  Jacqui worked in family violence law in New York before joining Global and Collective and working with organisations to minimize gun violence. Her work has focussed on the intersection of gun control and family violence and the effectiveness of state, federal and local laws and the legal process. Jacqui’s work includes establishing court monitoring in a few US states to observe how judges apply the domestic violence law and how the close integration of the courts and law enforcement can reduce the availability of guns during family violence proceedings.