Ivanley Noisette (L’18) has built his career around a central conviction: that everyone—no matter their background—deserves a voice in shaping the policies that affect their lives. As a legislative director on Capitol Hill, Ivanley is deeply committed to working collectively across barriers to build opportunity in communities of hope and promise in the United States and globally. He also works at the nexus of foreign affairs, trade, and human rights, with a special focus on Africa and the Caribbean. He sees policymaking not as an abstract process, but as a tool to empower communities to advocate for themselves—bridging the gap between those directly impacted and those with access to the institutional power to implement change.

Anne-Claire Blok (LL.M.’12) has dedicated over a decade to advancing gender equality and human rights on the global stage. With experience spanning non-governmental organizations, academia, and the United Nations, Anne-Claire’s career is driven by a singular focus: collaborating to create systemic solutions aimed at eliminating gender inequality and elevating the voices of women and girls worldwide. Whether leveraging the human rights system to amplify the voices of survivors of sexual violence, creating groundbreaking tools to empower advocates, or fostering multilateral cooperation and conducting gender diplomacy at the UN, she has consistently worked at the intersection of politics, law, and human rights to promote meaningful change.

Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme (LL.M. ‘24) is a women’s rights advocate and founder of the Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI), a pioneering project focused on driving dialogue and legal reform to address sexual harassment across Africa. She is a trailblazer in the fight to strengthen the recognition of sexual harassment as a fundamental human right, working to reshape the legal and social frameworks that perpetuate gender inequality, and pushing for transformative change across Africa.

Giovanna Gismondi (S.J.D. ‘21, LL.M. ‘01) is a Visiting Associate Professor and Fellow for the Environmental Law Program at George Washington University School of Law, where she combines her passion for human rights and environmental protection with her dedication to educating tomorrow’s human rights advocates. At GW Law, Giovanna teaches Human Rights and Environmental Protection.

Larson Binzer (L’20) currently serves as Oversight Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary in the United States House of Representatives. She previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director to former Congressman and Georgetown Law graduate, David Cicilline. As an attorney on Capitol Hill, Larson’s career has largely focused on protecting constitutional freedoms and civil liberties through the promotion of democracy, election security, gun violence prevention, and gender equality.

Dino Singson de Leon (LL.M. '23) is a partner at the De Leon Arevalo Gonzales law offices (Dargon Law), which handles litigation, dispute resolution, insolvency, labor, taxation, corporate, and intellectual property cases. He also co-founded a food franchising company, Ate Rica's Bacsilog, with more than 180 branches nationwide in the Philippines. In addition to these roles, Dino devotes his time to human rights cases, working on a pro bono basis and using the material and financial resources from his day jobs to continue the struggle against human rights violations in the Philippines.

Prudence Mutiso (LL.M. '18) is a Senior Legal Advisor for Africa with the Center for Reproductive Rights. Based in the Center’s Africa headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Prudence champions sexual and reproductive health and rights as a fundamental human right across the continent through strategic litigation.

Katie Shay (L’12) is the Director of the Business and Human Rights Program at Cisco Systems, Inc., a technology company that designs and sells a broad range of technologies that power the Internet across networking, security, collaboration, applications, and the cloud to customers across the globe. Katie leads a team at Cisco that works to embed respect for human rights throughout Cisco’s global operations and manage compliance with human rights-related regulations.

Ginna Anderson (L’09) is the Associate Director of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, a subsection of the ABA that focuses on promoting the rule of law and human rights internationally. As the Director of the Justice Defenders Program, Ginna works to coordinate pro bono legal services, monitor trials, and advocate on behalf of human rights defenders and other vulnerable communities globally, alongside a team of legal advisers and programmatic staff from around the world.

Tatiana Londoño Camargo (LL.M. ’10) is the founding partner of LH Law & Consulting in Colombia and the Director of its International Law and Human Rights practice area. Tatiana uses her experience working with human rights violations from within the Colombian government to advise companies on human rights issues and compliance with government regulations.

Agnieszka Fryszman (L’96), a partner at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, is one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers against corporate abuse. As founder and chair of the firm’s Human Rights practice group, Agnieszka champions the rights of victims of injustice and abuse against corporate giants and foreign powers.

Brian Concannon (L’89) works as the executive director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), a U.S.-based NGO that creates pathways to justice and accountability for human rights violations in Haiti.

When confronting transnational corporations on global supply chain abuses, Charity Ryerson and her legal team at Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) are the clear underdogs. Yet, that has only motivated them more to develop a broad and innovative spectrum of legal tools to protect people and the environment from corporate abuse.

As the Supervising Staff Attorney for Accountability at Human Rights First, Amanda Strayer (L'19) draws on her personal passion, her creative mindset, and her solid grounding of human rights law and practical lawyering skills learned at Georgetown to take on the perpetrators of horrific human rights abuses.

As Director of the Legal and Programs department of Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that advances civil and political rights exclusively in authoritarian regimes, Michelle Gulino (L'18) is no stranger to bold campaigns for societal change.

Early in her career, Helki Spidle (L’05) fell into the job she was meant for. Helki works as the Deputy Chief of the Human Rights Violator Law Division (HRVLD) which provides counsel to the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), the U.S. government’s interagency center dedicated to working on accountability for human rights abuses, as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT).

Shaw Drake (L’15) did not always know he would work with migrants and refugees. But as a Senior Policy Counsel for the ACLU based in El Paso, TX, he is part of a vibrant community of residents and NGOs making real change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Whether she’s fighting for women’s sexual and reproductive rights or access to education, Beverly Mumbo (LL.M. ‘20) is a passionate and determined advocate for change.

Eric Tars is the Legal Director at the National Homelessness Law Center, where he oversees all programmatic work, litigation, training, outreach, and advocacy. Eric works in various program areas that address civil and human rights within housing policy, especially with a youth focus.