About

Lisa Pilnik is a national expert and independent consultant on policy and practice related to children, youth, and families. She has spent more than 15 years working with a wide range of stakeholders to address the intersections between child welfare, juvenile justice, health, and homelessness, and to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families across these issue areas. She previously served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, a position in which she helped promote best practices, develop policy guidance, and speak and write on a range of status offense and juvenile justice issues. Lisa was also previously a Staff Attorney at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, where her work included conducting state and national trainings for attorneys, judges, and other professionals and writing and editing books, articles, and policy briefs on child welfare-related topics.