Lisa Beran is currently the staff attorney with the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association and a legal consultant and national trainer on domestic violence issues. She has conducted trainings for the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice, National Center for State Courts, Kentucky Bar Association, University of Tennessee Community Oriented Policing Institute and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence National Full Faith and Credit Project.
Lisa is presently overseeing Project Passport, a regional Full Faith and Credit Project of the ten states surrounding Kentucky. Project Passport brings together teams of domestic violence professionals from the ten states in an effort to bring uniformity to the issuance and enforcement of foreign protective orders.
Previously, Lisa was Counsel with the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office in Washington, D.C., where she was assigned to draft the Department’s workplace domestic violence policy and was one of the draft authors of the Justice Department’s “An Advocate’s Guide to Full Faith and Credit for Orders of Protection”.
Lisa has a J.D. and an M.A. in Women’s Studies.