HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 2005
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, B.A., magna cum laude, 2001

• Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director, Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic, Fordham Law School (2007 – present)
• Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham Law School (2006-2007)
• Harvard Henigson Human Rights Fellow and Junior Researcher, International Crisis Group, West Africa Project (Dakar, Senegal) (2005-2006)
• Board of Directors, Timap for Justice-USA
• Co-Founder, Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights
• Instructor, African Women's History and Human Rights, Teaching and Projects Abroad (Accra, Ghana) (2002)
• Human rights teaching, fieldwork, reporting, and advocacy in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda

• Gary Bellow Public Service Award, Harvard Law School (2005)
• Dean's Award for Community Leadership, Harvard Law School (2005)
• Kaufman Public Service Fellowship, Harvard Law School (2005)
• John F. Kluge Scholar, Columbia University

• Sex Work and Human Rights in Africa (In-progress)
• Forced Eviction and Resettlement in Cambodia: Case Studies from Phnom Penh, Washington University Global Studies Law Review (with Anna Cave, Ernie Gao, Elizabeth Joynes, Jessica Mikhailevich) (forthcoming 2010)
• Penetrating the Silence in Sierra Leone: A Blueprint for the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation, Harvard Human Rights Journal (with Meghna Saxena, Anna Cave, Nasim Farjad, Helen Shin) (forthcoming 2009)
• Silencing the Ethiopian Courts: Non-Judicial Constitutional Review and its Impact on Human Rights, Fordham International Law Journal (with Sarah Braasch, Aron Degol, Melisa Morgan, Felice Segura and Teramed Tezera)
• Rights-Based Sex Worker Empowerment Guidelines: An Alternative HIV/AIDS Intervention Approach to the 100% Condom Use Programme, Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM) (with Meghan Gabriel, Laura Garr, and Laura Smith) (2008)
• We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma and Discrimination Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, Fordham International Law Journal (with Jeanmarie Fenrich and Tracy E. Higgins) (2008)
• Nigeria's Faltering Federal Experiment, International Crisis Group (2006)
• Liberia: Resurrecting the Justice System, International Crisis Group (2006)
• "Ingando" Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation and Political Indoctrination in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Harvard Human Rights Journal (2005)
• Frontline Rwanda: Disappearances, Arrests,Threats, Intimidation and Co-option of Human Rights Defenders 2004, Frontline: The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (with Bridget Toy-Cronin) (2005)
• “The Birth of Harlem Daffodils,” Merlyn’s Pen (1995)