Profile:

Ms. Gbedemah currently serves as a member of the traditional state's Committee on Women and Children, and has started a novel program for the youth dubbed "Legalites," inspired by the Georgetown University Street Law program. She directed the Volta Region’s Legal Awareness Programme, engaging in legal aid and legal education campaigns and lectured at the Ho Polytechnic Institute as a Legal Educator.

LAWA Experience:

Ms. Gbedemah’s graduate thesis, “Trokosi: Twentieth Century Female Bondage, a Ghanian Case Study,” was later published in updated form in the book Voices of Women in Africa.

During her fellowship internship with the ACLU’s National Prison Project, Ms. Gbedemah’s main assignments were updating the HIV Bibliography with current HIV case law and providing legal assistance to legal personnel with clients afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

Ms. Gbedemah lectured at the University of Florida for two semesters on the status of women in Ghana and women’s rights internationally.

Other Work Experience:

Prior to LAWA, Ms. Gbedemah taught business law at Our Lady of the Apostles Secondary School in Ho, Ghana for three years. She has also taught law at Ho Polytechnic Institute.

Ms. Gbedemah was significantly involved in prison volunteer work before her fellowship. She was the only female lawyer in private legal practice in the whole of the Volta region, whereas the two other female lawyers worked in public practice. Following LAWA, Ms. Gbedemah returned to her chambers career and specialized in female adolescent health law.