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
• 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

• Engaging Legal Dualism: Paralegal Organizations and Customary Law in Sierra Leone and Liberia in THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW, Cambridge University Press, Jeanmarie Fenrich, Paolo Galizzi, and Tracy Higgins, eds. (with Kristina Baehr) (forthcoming 2011)
• Sex Work and Human Rights in Africa, Fordham International Law Journal (with Laura A. Smith) (forthcoming 2010)
• Africa's Women Turn 50, The Huffington Post (20 August 2010)
• Rwanda: Free Press, Post-Genocide, Afrik-News (9 August 2010)
• US Foreign Policy and Unsafe Abortion in Africa, openDemocracy.net (3 August 2010)
• Manipulating the Memory of the Rwandan Genocide, allAfrica.com (21 July 2010)
• A Call for Sex Workers’ Rights in Africa, Pambazucka News (24 June 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) (2010)
• 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) (2010)
• 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) (2008)
• 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)