In 2019 LCRF leadership secured funding to develop a plan for formalizing our work and to build the infrastructure needed to be a staffed entity capable not only of strengthening the work of our members, but also moving our own strategic programming to help build the statewide movement. We have been creating a formal structure for our organization, setting strategic priorities, and building community support so that LCRF could be reborn as a formalized coalition with the capacity of staff and funding to advance our priorities.

Victoria Coy, Executive Director

Victoria Coy (she/her) comes to this work from years of campaign and coalition management in anti-violence and justice reform spaces. A native Louisiana, Victoria graduated from Tulane University with foci in politics and gender. She has worked all over the Global South to end violence against women and girls and in women’s economic justice and equity. Upon returning to the US, Victoria founded the Deep South’s first gun violence prevention organization and went on to run several national and international coalitions against gun violence. More recently, she shifted to criminal justice reform, having led the first successful Coalition in the country to ensure the election of a progressive prosecutor and leading a rural Louisiana coalition to reform the world’s most incarcerating prisons in Jefferson and Orleans parishes.

Victoria balances justice work with a passion for the ocean. She spends her free time rebuilding a 40 year old sailboat and takes as many sailing trips as she can. She believes deeply that the pursuit of joy is necessary to the longevity of activists committed to sustainable change.