Scholar, Activist, Domestic Violence Witness Expert in Massachusetts sits on a couch and smiling

meet margo

Everyone wants to experience a higher quality of life through improved social and economic systems.

Margo’s role is to facilitate transformative conversations and policies in new, impactful, and large & small-scale ways.

Margo’s Story

Margo is many things: a mother, partner, daughter, sister, and friend. She is also a scholar, an activist, a professor* and an aspiring yogi. (*She’s on leave from her professional job at Northeastern University to try her hand at some new adventures.) Oh, and she’s fluent in Spanish!

Margo has spent years advocating for individuals impacted by intimate partner and sexual violence.

As a Professor and Clinic Director at Northeastern University School of Law, Margo directed the Law School’s Domestic Violence Clinic from 2014-2022, an academic course that provided instruction and supervision to upper level law students who sought to represent clients in legal proceedings in local district court.

Margo also oversaw a first-year opportunity for students to volunteer in the Domestic Violence Institute’s Legal Assistance to Victims (LAV) project, a unique interdisciplinary collaboration with different domestic violence organizations in the community.

Margo served as a mentor to many students seeking to make an impact in their communities through law, public health and grassroots advocacy. Her client’s strength and stories always directed her teaching and advocacy.

While at Northeastern, Margo spearheaded a COVID rapid response project which sought to close some of the gap in services her clients experienced brought on by the COVID 19 pandemic. You can read about it here.

Featured Commentary:

“Britney Spears’s ‘Abusive Arrangement’ Removes Her Control Over Her Own Body–But She’s Not the Only One”

Special reference to Margo’s article, “A Pandemic within a Pandemic — Intimate Partner Violence during Covid-19”

“How the Johnny Depp Case Took Over the Internet, and What This Could Mean for Victims of Domestic Violence”

Currently, Margo is leveraging her expertise to assist the Farm & Wilderness summer camp’s board and organization.

Prior to joining the Northeastern community, Margo worked at Project Place as the director of Partnerships to Opportunities for Women in Re-Entry (POWR). This built upon her extensive background in domestic violence work at Casa Myrna Vazquez as a staff attorney, Respond, Inc. as the Director of Programs and at Georgetown’s Domestic Violence Clinic as a clinical fellow. Margo gained valuable clinical teaching experience at Georgetown, where she earned her LLM and at Suffolk University Law School, where she served as a teaching fellow in the Child Advocacy Clinic and the Juvenile Defender Clinic.

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