#Voices4Change Virtual Tour

Mary Claire Landry

Mary Claire Landry has over forty five years of professional management experience providing visionary leadership and optimizing individual and organizational performance. She is a licensed clinical social worker with a Masters of Social Work from Tulane University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans. From 2003 to 2012 she served as the Director of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans. In 2007 she created the New Orleans Family Justice Center, a comprehensive victim services center and since July of 2012 serves as its Executive Director under the 501c3, the New Orleans Family Justice Alliance. In 2006 she served as the President of the Louisiana Coalition Against

Domestic Violence and currently serves on the Louisiana Domestic Violence Prevention Commission created in 2014.

Samantha Eldridge

Samantha Eldridge is a registered nurse working in the Forensic Department at University Medical Center New Orleans. In her practice, she sees victims of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and other violent crimes. Samantha graduated with honors from Charity School of Nursing in 2017. She started her healthcare career as a hospital volunteer, then nursing assistant, and finally a critical care nurse prior to completing additional training to become a sexual assault nurse examiner. Samantha joined the Forensic Department in February 2020. It is in the setting of Forensic Nursing that she is pursuing a passion in research, starting with an initial project examining the effect of the global pandemic on intimate partner and sexual assault violence.

Rae Taylor

Dr. Rae Taylor joined the Loyola faculty in the fall of 2009 after completing her Ph.D. in Sociology. Her research and teaching interests include intimate partner violence and other violent crimes, societal and organizational responses to violent crime and social inequalities, as well as issues pertaining to mass incarceration. She has been the recipient of the University Faculty Senate Award for Research, the Marquette Research Fellowship, and the Ignatian Faculty Fellowship. She has published her work in Violence Against Women, Homicide Studies, and numerous other academic journals, books, and encyclopedias. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Criminology, the Homicide Research Working Group, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences,

where she regularly presents her research.Dr. Taylor's teaching and research are informed by her dedication to service in the community. She is a member of the New Orleans Fatality Review Team and is a volunteer medical victim advocate with the New Orleans Family Justice Center/University Medical Center. In addition, she serves as an expert witness in local jurisdictions.

Heidi Martin

Heidi Martin is a registered nurse and coordinator of the Forensic Program in the University Medical Center New Orleans Emergency Department. The program’s specially trained forensic nurses provide trauma-informed care in a safe environment to victims of sexual assault, human trafficking, and interpersonal violence.  Heidi graduated from Charity School of Nursing in 2012 and received her BSN from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Heidi began working in emergency and inpatient psychiatric nursing in 2012. She has been an ED nurse at UMC since 2016 and began her career in forensics in 2017 and gained SANE-A certification in 2018.