Sally MacNichol

Sally is a Co-Executive Director of CONNECT, a New York City nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing interpersonal violence and promoting gender justice. She has been an antiviolence activist, advocate and educator for over three decades, counseling victims of domestic violence/intimate partner violence , designing and facilitating empowerment groups for survivors, working with men who batter and abuse, and training hundreds of staff from child welfare programs and community based organizations across New York City’s five boroughs.

Sally created and leads CONNECT Faith, a decade-long interfaith movement in New York City to build the capacity of religious leaders and communities of faith to work to end intimate partner abuse and co-occurring forms of family and gender violence. CONNECT Faith currently partners with over 50 faith communities, offering customized training, support for education and awareness events, resource development, technical assistance for the creation of family violence ministries, consultation for safe practices and policies, and referrals for faith-based counseling.

Sally currently serves on the board of Freedom House, one of the few domestic violence shelters in the country for people with disabilities and on the steering committee of the New York City Elder Abuse Center of New York. She was recently named a New York New Abolitionist. Sally earned her Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.