Brown Bag Lunch Series

Speaker: Akshaya Kumar, Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst for the Enough Project

Akshaya Kumar, the Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst for the Enough Project, will discuss innovative tools available to atrocity prevention advocates as they try to effect change in places experiencing protracted armed conflict. She will also discuss the recent campaign to prevent Sudan’s ICC indicted president, Omar al-Bashir from visiting the United States during the General Assembly.

Akshaya Kumar coordinates the Enough Project’s work on Sudan and South Sudan on the peace process, atrocity prevention and democratic transformation in in both countries. She also manages the Satellite Sentinel Project, which systematically monitors and reports on potential hotspots and threats to human security in near real-time, synthesizes evidence from satellite imagery, data pattern analysis, and ground sourcing to produce reports. The project then works with celebrity activists like George Clooney, to raise awareness about its findings. Previously, Akshaya was a Law Fellow at the Public International Law and Policy Group, or PILPG, where she served as a legal adviser to the government of the Republic of South Sudan. She has also interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, UN Women and the International Committee of the Red Cross’s legal delegation to the United Nations. Akshaya holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she recieved the Parker School’s Certificate of Achievement in Foreign and Comparative Law. She recieved an LLM with distinction in Human Rights, Conflict, and Justice from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and a B.A. from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Brown Bag Lunch Series