Tammara McCoy
Tammara McCoy is an Outreach Specialist with the Survivors Justice Project and a justice-impacted advocate who came home under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act after serving 16 years on a 25-to-life sentence. Her lived experience navigating incarceration, resentencing, and reentry deeply informs her advocacy and community-building work.
At the Survivors Justice Project, Tammara works directly with individuals impacted by the DVSJA, helping to strengthen connection, visibility, and collective engagement among people who have come home under the statute. She coordinates Welcome Home Celebrations, supports outreach efforts, and helps ensure that survivor voices remain central in policy conversations and public education.
Tammara also works at Columbia University’s Center for Justice, where she supports program coordination and convenings focused on decarceration, education access, and justice-impacted leadership. She is a frequent speaker on panels and in classrooms, where she speaks about survivor sentencing, the realities of long incarceration, and the gendered impacts of the carceral system. Tammara is committed to ensuring that policies meant to support survivors are understood through the lived experiences of those most affected.
