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Greater New York City Area

VISION: We create innovative solutions that disrupt unjust systems to ensure a more equitable future.MISSION: ICAAD works at the intersection of legal innovation and human-centered design to create evidence-based programs with organizations and communities to combat structural discrimination. By leveraging multidisciplinary teams and taking an integrated approach, we are able to improve resilience, safety, and equity across systems.FOCUS AREAS:Advocacy & ReformData &… Show more VISION: We create innovative solutions that disrupt unjust systems to ensure a more equitable future.MISSION: ICAAD works at the intersection of legal innovation and human-centered design to create evidence-based programs with organizations and communities to combat structural discrimination. By leveraging multidisciplinary teams and taking an integrated approach, we are able to improve resilience, safety, and equity across systems.FOCUS AREAS:Advocacy & ReformData & Emerging TechCapacity BuildingHuman Rights EducationArtivism Show less

Greater New York City Area

Bias, stereotyping, and customary practices shape discriminatory systems globally. From bias in policing practices, discrimination in workforce hiring and advancement, to differential medical care for patients and lenient sentences for perpetrators of sexual violence against women; unjust systems adversely affect the lives of marginalized communities globally. With a commitment to social justice built into the very foundation of social work, future social workers will need the tools to… Show more Bias, stereotyping, and customary practices shape discriminatory systems globally. From bias in policing practices, discrimination in workforce hiring and advancement, to differential medical care for patients and lenient sentences for perpetrators of sexual violence against women; unjust systems adversely affect the lives of marginalized communities globally. With a commitment to social justice built into the very foundation of social work, future social workers will need the tools to understand, navigate, and overcome systems of oppression. In order to effectively disrupt discriminatory systems, individuals and organizations designing interventions need to identify the underlying motivations or cultural factors that shape biases and lead to discriminatory outcomes. By applying the tools of behavioral science and design thinking to structural problems, students will begin to uncover the barriers that perpetuate discrimination. Show less

Greater New York City Area

In August 2014, ICAAD began a collaboration with the Leitner Center for International Law & Justice at Fordham School of Law. ICAAD staff designed a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Training & Human Rights Lawyering program and conducted the course as Clinical Supervising Attorneys. The course looked at structural discrimination that impacts women and minority communities through the lens of the UPR.

UNITED SIKHS is a UN-affiliated, international non-profit, non-governmental, humanitarian relief, human development and advocacy organization, aimed at empowering those in need, especially disadvantaged and minority communities across the world.

Researched State responsibility for providing adequate protections from private acts of violenceMonitored the recessionary effects on resources for emergency domestic violence shelters in CaliforniaAdvocated for a minimal threshold of resources the State is obligated to provide for victims of domestic violence

Wrote Report and Recommendations (R&Rs) for both SSI disability and habeas petition casesLearned strategies for effective use of ADR and the impact of settlement agreements on the individual partiesResearched/ Drafted memorandum on the retroactive application of sentencing laws

Tanzania

Drafted memorandum and interpreted the jurisprudence on the evidentiary rule of rebuttal/ rejoinder witnessesResearched whether members of a joint criminal enterprise (JCE) are culpable of incitement to commit genocideSummarized witness testimonies and highlighted/ documented relevant consistent/ inconsistent facts presented

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Published decisions regarding: certification, witness proofing, unwarranted searches, and witness protectionSurveyed the law on conspiracy to commit genocide by focusing on common law versus civil law definitionsAnalyzed complex legal issues such as: ex post facto aiding and abetting, cumulative convictions, and conspiracy

Drafted memorandum on the impact of cultural relativism vs. universalism on human rights; emphasis on SharíaEdited/ Researched texts, law review articles, and amicus briefs on: alien tort statute, counter-terrorism, material support, immigration, military commissions, genocide, prison abuse, and international judgments

Drafted/ Filed BIA appellate brief and a pre-hearing statement for asylees who were victims of domestic violence

Judicial Extern for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Carla Woehrle, Summer 2006 Drafted/ Published decisions regarding SSI disability and attorney fee motionsObserved two week trial on police excessive force and researched issues on qualified immunity

Documented human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, during the counter-insurgency

Received Pro Bono Award at a Judicial Conference for revisions to Pro Se manual adopted by the federal courts

L.L.M., International Law & Justice

Activities and Societies: L.L.M Fellow: Fordham International Law Journal L.L.M. in International Law & Justice

Juris Doctor, International Law

Activities and Societies: Pro Bono Honors Society, Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), Amnesty, ILS, American Society of International.

Ba, Ba, Biology & History

B.A. in History and Biology