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During this session, we will explore a range of strategies and practice settings for international public interest lawyering. Our speakers will include:

Lisa D’Annunzio: Lisa designs and implements development strategies to ensure Asylum Access has the resources to fulfill its mission to make human rights a reality for refugees. Lisa is a proud alumna of the Volunteer Legal Advocate program for Asylum Access Tanzania, where she provided direct legal aid to refugee clients and co-founded a refugee women’s empowerment group.

Claret Vargas: Claret is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Justice and Accountability (San Francisco). Claret previously served at MSI Integrity, an NGO focused on global governance and business and human rights, and as Director of Internationalization at Dejusticia (Colombia) where she focused on business and human rights.

Marlena Wisniak: Marlena is the Partnerships Manager for Civil Society at the Partnership on AI, where she oversees the organization’s portfolio of over 50 non-profit and civil society organizations. As the in-residence expert on international human rights, Marlena brings a rights-based and community-oriented approach to artificial intelligence. Marlena joined PAI as a lawyer working at the intersection of corporate accountability, technology and international human rights. She has over five years’ experience in promoting and implementing the corporate responsibility to respect human rights across a range of sectors, having worked with internationally-recognized business and human rights practitioners in the U.S, Europe, and Latin America.

Patrick Heller: Patrick is an Advisor at Natural Resource Governance Institute and has worked on legal reform and governance initiatives in the developing world for more than 20 years for organizations including USAID, the US State Department, the Asian Development Bank, Creative Associates International and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He is a senior visiting fellow at the Center for Law, Energy & Environment at the University of California, Berkeley.

This is a brown bag lunch, so please remember to eat before or bring your lunch to the session.