PSVF Fellow: Izza Drury (J.D. ’24)

European Court of Human Rights

Strasbourg, France

Next year as a Public Service Venture Fellow Izza Drury will work as a trainee at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. In addition to PSVF, Izza received a Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship which will support her time in Strasbourg, learning about the Court’s approach to migrants’ rights.

While at HLS, Izza served as a Project Leader for Advocates for Human Rights, was an Assistant Managing Editor at the Harvard Human Rights Journal and participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, completing over 1,700 hours of pro bono service. Izza interned at the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, the only state-wide immigrant legal aid organization in Maine, and for Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid, a small migrants’ rights organization with offices in Lesvos and Athens, Greece. At Fenix, Izza drafted and submitted an individual complaint to the Committee against Torture and conducted at secondment at the Global Legal Action Network.

Izza graduated from Brown University in 2017, and prior to law school worked with grassroots migration advocacy organizations in Calais, France, Chios, Greece, and remotely across the United States. Izza is from Vinalhaven, an island in mid-coast Maine.