Anna Maitland Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Nigeria

Support the work of JEI as the US liaison and help maintain the US organizational status.

Greater Chicago Area

Working with survivors of human trafficking to provide holistic services ranging from immigration relief, victim advocacy, name change, and civil damages.

Chicago, Illinois

Facilitate the ongoing work of the Northwestern Access to Health Project in various countries -including Mali and the Dominican Republic - by supporting local community advocates and NGOs to create and implement innovative strategies to improve access to health, while also working with students across different disciplines to encourage an interdisciplinary international human rights education.

Port Harcourt And Lagos, Nigeria

Justice & Empowerment Initiatives works alongside poor and marginalized communities in Nigeria to build bottom-up accountability and find innovative and lasting justice solutions. Our work is community-owned, community-sustained, and community driven, and focuses on community organizing and federation building, community-based paralegals and advocates, and strategic litigation for violations of human rights. The core issues we address are identified by partner communities, and focus predominately on land grab and forced eviction, police abuse and brutality, and mediation and dispute resolution. www.justempower.org

Conduct research and investigation for strategic litigation cases impacting access to maternal health care for poor and marginalized women in Lagos.

Assisted supervising attorney David Baluarte in legal representation of stateless individuals in the United States; Created a clinic manual on UNHCR statelessness determinations, immigration advocacy, and statelessness publications; Helped to set up the Pilot Project through coordination, creation of SOPs and organizational documentation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Legal fellow here until February, then back to the job hunt!

Provided direct legal services to asylum seekers, including applications and immigration needs; Helped establish a Bahamian legal clinic to provide pro-bono legal services for stateless Haitians; Wrote a Memorandum on behalf of three organizations to the Inter-American Court on the detention of unaccompanied minors.

Drafted briefs and memoranda on state practice, peace negotiation standards, and legal standards for the Darfur Peace Process; Researched Land Tenure in Subsaharan Africa; Edited peer work.

J.D. And M.A., International Law And Human Rights

Activities and Societies: National Lawyers Guild, Student Executive Board; Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Student Executive Board.

B.A., Major In Theater And Women'S Studies And Minor In Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Stop Hate on CampusDual degree in women's studies and theater with a minor in philosophy.