Women’s Rights
Gender Equality
Performed research on gender pay gap laws for The Fawcett Society, a charity advocating for gender equality and women’s rights.
Investment in Building an Inclusive World
Supporting Impact Investment Exchange in the structuring and sale of Women’s Livelihood BondTM. The Women’s Livelihood BondTM Series is an innovative series of blended finance instruments designed to empower three million underserved women in developing countries through sustainable livelihoods.
Women’s Health
Researched legal frameworks to help international nonprofit 28 Too Many bring an end to female genital mutilation/cutting.
Maternity Rights
Supporting Maternity Action, the UK’s leading charity committed to promoting, protecting and enhancing the rights of all pregnant women, new mothers and their families to employment, social security and health care.
Pregnant and Parenting Students
Conducted a 50-state survey of laws, regulations and administrative codes for the National Women’s Law Center that referenced the rights of pregnant and parenting students in K-12 and/or higher education.
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Asylum Rights
Contributed to a Country Conditions research project for GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation to support asylum applicants seeking asylum in Korea based on their LGBTQIA+ status originating from Afghanistan, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Iran, Jamaica, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Changing Identities
Partnered with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund to support transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary people in legally changing their names to be consistent with their gender identities and appearance.
SOGIESC Discrimination
Supporting ILGA-Europe, an independent, international non-governmental umbrella organization that brings together organizations working towards equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Europe and Central Asia.
Human Rights
Crafted a research project for international nongovernmental organization, OutRight International, that fights for the human rights of LGBTQIA+ people around the world.
Refugee Rights
Performed research on Country-of-Origin conditions with TakeRoot Justice for LGBTQIA+ individuals and human rights campaigners from Trinidad and Haiti.
Racial Justice and Equality
Police Reform in Louisiana
Worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) to identify barriers to police accountability. These barriers have historically reinforced a discriminatory system, criminalizing poverty and enabling civil-rights violations against people of color. The results of the Police Reform Project are currently being used to select high-potential jurisdictions where meaningful change in conduct and policy can be supported and executed.
Addressing issues that negatively impact Black people
Helped Black Thrive create a separate legal entity, Black Thrive Global, which addresses the systemic issues and inequalities that negatively impact the mental health and wellbeing of Black people.
Voting Rights
Partnered with the Legal Defense Fund to litigate a claim against Arkansas government officials for violating Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, alleging that the current method of electing justices and judges to the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals illegally denies Black voters the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.
Racial Justice in Death Penalty Cases
Reviewed historic jury selection records of death penalty cases, demonstrating potential racial discrimination in the juror selection process for Amicus.
Equitable Entrepreneurship
Helped create an innovative funding model for GMCVO, a Greater Manchester based charity that is building a cooperative structure for social entrepreneurs from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds in partnership with the BASE network.
