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)
• Instructor, African Women's History, Teaching and Projects Abroad (Accra, Ghana) (2002)
• Human rights fieldwork and advocacy in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Uganda

• National Law Journal Minority 40 Under 40 (2011)
• 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

• Criminalization of Prostitution as a Violation of Sex Workers' Health Rights, IntLawGrrls (17 December 2011)
• Police Abuse of Sex Workers: A Global Reality, Largely Ignored, RH Reality Check (15 December 2011)
• Witchcraft Accusations and Human Rights: Case Studies from Malawi, George Washington International Law Review (with Katherine Glenn) (forthcoming 2012)
• 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) (2011)
• Africa's LGBT Rights Movement, The Huffington Post (3 May 2011)
• The Architecture of Maternal Death, RH Reality Check (with Tarek Meguid) (4 April 2011)
• Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft, The Huffington Post (14 March 2011)
• Witchcraft Legal Aid in Africa, The International Herald Tribune (17 February 2011)
• Honoring the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, The Huffington Post (14 December 2010)
• Sierra Leone Youth Call for an End to Female Genital Mutilation, The Huffington Post (26 November 2010)
• Sex Work and Human Rights in Africa, Fordham International Law Journal (with Laura A. Smith) (2010)
• International Donors Must Fund Breakthrough Female-Controlled HIV Prevention Gel, The Huffington Post (11 October 2010)
• Three African Vignettes: Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, Afrik-News (15 September 2010)
• Africa's Women Turn 50, The Huffington Post (20 August 2010)
• Rwanda: Media Censorship Will Breed Resentment, allAfrica.com (11 August 2010)
• US Foreign Policy and Unsafe Abortion in Africa, openDemocracy.net (3 August 2010)
• Rwanda: Govt 'Manipulates' Genocide Memory, allAfrica.com (21 July 2010)
• A Call for Sex Workers’ Rights in Africa, Pambazuka News (24 June 2010)
• Exporting Confusion: U.S. Foreign Policy as an Obstacle to the Implementation of Ethiopia's Liberialized Abortion Law, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (with Tashmin Ali, David Ashley, Ndidi Igboeli, Aron Degol, Fikraeb Gintamo, and Maedot Tesfaye) (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)