Biography

I am an international lawyer from the US and incoming-PhD candidate in International Relations & Politics. My research explores challenges new and emerging technologies pose to international legal systems, and the impacts of global digital inequality on pursuits of international justice.  Previously as a practicing attorney, I have worked at a global law firm, concentrating my practice on international arbitration and foreign sovereign litigation matters, and particularly on matters concerning issues of public international law. There, I maintained an active pro bono practice of matters concerning international human rights and international criminal law. This involved, for example, working with the Human Trafficking Legal Clinic to seek justice for migrant workers in diplomatic households in proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and with the Center for Reproductive Rights in proceedings challenging Texas' SB-8 abortion ban. I also assisted in the drafting of comments on the ICC’s policy guide for gender-based crimes with the PILPG, and supervised student research on the applicability of international law in cyberspace with Temple University Law School’s Institute for Innovation, Law & Technology. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to pivot these interests into my full-time focus as a PhD candidate at Cambridge.