Event Speakers
Director of the Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Bureau of International Organizations at the U.S. Department of State
Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Information Technology Specialist at the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, U.S. Department of Defense
Board Chair, UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
Senior Advisor to the State Department's Coordinator for Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Department of State
Disaster State Relations Director for the Central Atlantic Division, American Red Cross
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Professor, International Education and International Affairs at George Washington University
President of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
Senior Policy Advisor for Gender, Climate Change, & Innovation in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) at the U.S. Department of State
Managing Director, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Portfolio
Manager, Humanity United, Washington Office
Manager, Humanity United, Washington Office
International Human Rights Lawyer and Activist
Blume Professor at Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative, Georgetown University Law Center
Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders
Supervising Staff Attorney for Accountability, Human Rights First
Senior Policy Advisor to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Washington
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Management Services
Deputy Director of the UN Information Centre in Washington, DC.
Digital Technology Program Specialist, USAID
Senior Advisor, Digital & Financial Inclusion and Gender Equality, USAID
Research Analyst, Protecting Civilians and Human Security Program at the Stimson Center
Vice President, Strategic Growth & Business Development at One Earth Future Foundation
Special Assistant to the Vice President and Corporate Secretary for the World Bank Group
International Education and Development Professional, Co-Communications Officer, Young Professionals
Technology Solutions for GBV and Technology-Facilitated GBV, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Deputy Senior Official, Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI), U.S. Department of State
Founder and Director, International Justice Lab; Assistant Professor of Government, The College of William & Mary; Faculty Affiliate, Global Research Institute
Advocacy Officer, Young Professionals; Co-Coordinator, Climate Law and Governance Initiative
Chief Policy Officer, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Centennial Fellow and Distinguished Senior Scholar, Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Centennial Fellow and Distinguished Senior Scholar, Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Co-Chair, Development Committee
In November 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Professor Achiume the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, making her the first woman to serve in this role since its creation in 1993. In 2016, she was appointed to co-chair the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), she is former co-chair of the ASIL Migration Law Interest Group and currently serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law.
Professor Achiume earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She also earned a Graduate Certificate in Development Studies from Yale.
Professor Achiume clerked for Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Following her clerkships, she was awarded the Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship to work for the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project unit at Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg. Professor Achiume also taught on the faculty of the International Human Rights Exchange Programme based at the University of the Witwatersrand. She then joined the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as a litigation associate. Immediately prior to her current appointment she was the second recipient of Binder Clinical Teaching Fellowship at UCLA School of Law.
Professor Achiume’s publications include: “Racial Borders,” (forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal) "Migration as Decolonization," 71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (2019) (selected for the 2018 Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum); "Governing Xenophobia," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2018); “Syria and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees,” 100 Minnesota Law Review 687, (2015); and “Beyond Prejudice: Structural Xenophobic Discrimination Against Refugees," 45(2) Georgetown Journal of International Law 323 (2014). Professor Achiume is a core faculty member of the UCLA Law School Promise Institute for Human Rights, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
U.S. Human Rights Network Universal Periodic Review Task Force Co-Chair at the UN Human Rights Council
Executive Director, U.S. National Committee for UN Women
Co-Chair, UNA-NCA African Affairs Committee
Research Coordinator, The International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Director of the 4W Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
UNA-NCA Graduate Fellows Program Co-Director
Former Director, International Labour Organization - Washington Office
Former Director, International Labour Organization - Washington Office
Director, Good Shepherd International Foundation
Legislative Counsel, Office of At Large Council Member Robert C. White, Jr.
Former UN Observer for the League of Women Voters
Co-Chair, UNA-NCA Human Rights Committee
