Edwina “Edie” Tepper (she/her) is HRI’s 2025–26 Georgetown Partner Fellow. Before joining HRI, Edie worked with a range of human rights and civil liberties organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where she supported civil litigation and conducted legal research on religious freedom claims.

As part of HRI’s Human Rights Advocacy in Action Practicum, she investigated arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance in Egypt, contributing to field-based legal analysis under the framework of international human rights treaties. She also supported migrant communities through her work at the Migrant Legal Action Program. Most recently, Edie served as a student attorney in Georgetown Law’s Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), where she represented an asylum seeker in removal proceedings.

Edie earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2025, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and a participant in the Human Rights Associates Program. She also served as an NGO Observer at Guantánamo Bay through HRI’s Guantánamo Observers Program. Edie received Georgetown Law’s Pro Bono Pledge Recognition for completing over 50 hours of voluntary service in human rights and immigration law. With a background in education as a former English teacher in France, Edie is also excited to help carry out HRI’s practicum programming and support law students in exploring their interests in human rights law.

Edie is particularly passionate about accountability for atrocity crimes and hopes to pursue a career advancing justice for survivors of grave breaches of internationally-recognized human rights. She expects to be barred in the District of Columbia.