His advocacy has freed over 100 people detained at Rikers Island on unaffordable bail and hundreds more during the COVID-19 pandemic nationally, secured TPS protections for Cameroonian migrants in the U.S., established labor rights for New York farmworkers, prevented mass deportations in the Dominican Republic, challenged anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Uganda, and freed prisoners of conscience globally.

As a litigator before human rights tribunals in Africa, Latin America, and the United Nations,
Wade has won landmark cases establishing nationwide protections against gender-based violence in Guatemala, strengthening protest rights in Zimbabwe, and successfully challenging Ethiopian elections after the ruling coalition claimed 100% of parliamentary seats. He currently represents Lezley McSpadden before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in seeking accountability for the 2014 killing of her son Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

His expertise has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, NPR, and Al Jazeera. Wade was the inaugural Donald M. & Susan N. Wilson Fellow at the RFK Center for Human Rights where he most recently served as SVP of Programs and Legal Strategy. He previously supervised the Civil and Human Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law and co-directed the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Haitian Bridge Alliance.

Based in Washington, DC, Wade holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and is licensed to practice in New York.