International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates)
Washington, D.C.
As a Redstone Fellow, Liz will work with International Rights Advocates, a U.S.-based human rights organization committed to empowering survivors and leveraging systemic litigation to hold corporations accountable for forced labor and human trafficking in their global supply chain. Her work will focus on pursuing and supporting cutting-edge human rights litigation at the intersection of trafficking, forced labor, and corporate accountability, with a specific emphasis on high-risk industries like cocoa, cobalt, and coffee.
Liz has previously worked as a Legal Fellow at Global Labor Justice, as a Summer Associate at the employment justice firm Vladeck Raskin & Clark, as a Legal Clerk at labor rights union-side firm Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, and as a Legal Intern at the Asylum Protection Center in Belgrade, Serbia. While at HLS, Liz engaged in a wide spectrum of public interest clinical work through the Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic, the Employment Clinic, and the Crimmigration Clinic. She also pursued two year-long independent writing projects focused on the topics of workers’ rights, transnational corporations, and human trafficking, and published pieces in The [F]law and OnLabor.
Before law school, Liz pursued a yearlong fellowship as an English Teaching Assistant in the banlieue of Paris and worked as a political organizer and advocate for Promise Arizona and Community Change. Liz holds a masters degree in Religion, Ethics & Politics from Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. in History from Williams College. Liz is from Cleveland, Ohio.