Dr. Lavinia B. Masters proudly supports the Forensic Criminal Justice Alliance and the NCJA Center for Forensic Science because their mission aligns with the very heart of her life’s work—ensuring that every survivor has access to truth, justice, and healing. As a survivor whose own rape kit remained untested for more than two decades, Lavinia understands firsthand the cost of delays, barriers, and systemic failures.
The Alliance’s commitment to uniting laboratories, law enforcement, victim advocates, and technology leaders represents the kind of collaborative force needed to end backlogs, strengthen forensic practices, and solve more crimes with DNA.
For Lavinia, DNA is a divine footprint—evidence that speaks when survivors cannot. Supporting FCJA, NCJA, and the HGS ICGLR-RTF coalitions reflects her belief that when we remove barriers, invest in innovation, and work together, we not only solve more cases… we restore dignity, safety, and hope to countless survivors across the nation.
We are an allied coalition of laboratories, law enforcement, victim's rights advocates, and technology providers who believe in removing existing barriers to solve more crime with DNA.
The victim’s voice is a powerful and necessary force driving change and reform in the criminal justice system. For years, individual victims and survivors have used that voice to advocate for the improved use of DNA technology to solve and prevent crime.
NCJA’s DNA Center Coalition brings those voices together to achieve two goals. Our first goal is to amplify, augment, and support each member’s individual messaging and to identify opportunities for agreement, support, and collaboration. Secondly, recognizing that there are times when speaking with one voice on an issue can lead to an impact that is “greater than the sum of its parts,” we seek to leverage the impact of that combined voice. The Coalition will work to increase connectivity between and among these issues to identify resources and opportunities that, when taken together, can maximize the impact of this work, in individual states or at the federal level.
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