Notable Past Alumni

  • Onyema Afulukwe, Associate Director at Center for Reproductive Rights, United States 
    • Former Positions: Office of the Attorney General of Delta State, Nigeria, International Services for Human Rights, New York, and Oxfam Canada, Toronto
  • Dina Rippon, Network Coordinator at Ethox Centre, Global Health Bioethics Network, Oxford University, U.K.
    • Former Positions: Project Manager at Program on International Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health; Attorney at Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Laura Brittain, Legal Counsel at Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada
    • Former Position: Refugee Law Office of Legal Aid Ontario, Canada
  • The Honourable Andrew J. Brouwer, Judge at the Federal Court of Canada 

Former Position: Refugee Law Office of Legal Aid Ontario, Canada

  • Erica Bussey, Senior Human Rights Officer at Office of the Victims' Rights Advocate for the United Nations, New York
    • Former Positions: Special Court for Sierra Leone; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; UN Office of Drugs and Crime, MONUSCO (the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo); Senior Legal Advisor–Africa for Amnesty International
  • Sandra Chu, Co-Executive Director at HIV-AIDS Legal Network, Toronto
    • Former Positions: Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice in Netherlands; Legal Consultant at Adam Smith Institute, Libya; Juvenile Justice Consultant for UNICEF, Timor-Leste
  • Jonathan Cohen, Director of Policy Engagement at USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, United States 
    • Former Positions: Director of Open Society Institute Public Health Program; American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, United States
  • Matthew Cohen, Advisor, Pro Bono & Charitable Giving at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
    • Former Position: Director of Legal Services at Pro Bono Ontario
  • Abbey Deshman, Lawyer at St. Lawrence Barristers PC, Canada 
    • Former Position: Director of Criminal Justice Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
  • Adrian Di Giovanni, Team Leader at International Development Research Centre, Canada
    • Former Position: Counsel at Department of Justice; Counsel at The World Bank
  • Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat, Postdoctoral Researcher at Geneva Graduate Institute
    • Former Position: Research and Partnership Officer at Nansen Initiative, UNOPS
  • Leilani Farha, Global Director at The Shift
    • Former Positions: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing; Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty 
  • Eszter Kismondi, Chief Executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Former Positions: Human Rights Adviser at the World Health Organization in Geneva; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School; Senior Human Rights Advisor at UNAIDS 
  • Alexis Kontos, Human Rights Law Section at Department of Justice Canada
    • Former Position: South Africa Coordinator at Amnesty International Canada
  • Ben Liston, Lawyer at Legal Aid Ontario
  • Gillian Lester, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
    • Former Positions: Dean of Columbia Law School, United States; Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law
  • Megan McLemore, Research Consultant at Johns Hopkins University Center for Public Health and Human Rights
    • Former Positions: Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch; Research Consultant at Drexel University Office of Global Health; Attorney at Legal Aid Society in NYC
  • Rebecca Netley, Legal Advisor and Director General of International Law Bureau, Global Affairs Canada
    • Former Positions: Executive Director of Accountability, Human Rights and United Nations Law Division at Global Affairs Canada; Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at Privy Council Office, Government of Canada 
  • Diya Nijhowne, Director, Refugee and Social Services at U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), United States
    • Former Position: Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, United States; Child Protection Office at UNHCR, Ethiopia; Senior Advocate at Institute for Inclusive Security, United States; Children's Rights Consultant, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, United States
  • Valerie Oosterveld, Associate Vice-President (Research) at Western University 
    • Former Positions: Professor at University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law; Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) at University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law; Legal Officer at Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa
  • Judith Rae, Partner at Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP, Canada (Aboriginal Law)
  • Sonali Regmi, Gender-Based Violence Response Specialist at Asian Development Bank, Nepal
    • Former Position: Asia Regional Director at Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Rosalind Sipos, Legal Officer, Investigations and Analysis Section, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism - Syria (IIIM), Geneva
    • Former Positions: Legal Officer at UNITAD Iraq; OHCHR Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan; Trial Counsel; Special Tribunal for Lebanon; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Appeals Chamber)
  • Alison Symington, Everyday Advocacy
    • Former Position: Senior Policy Analyst at HIV Justice Network
  • Cory Wanless, Partner at Phillips Barristers PC, Canada  (Human Rights Law)