About

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I am currently Director of Research and Programs for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a visiting scholar with the Justice Futures Project in the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. Prior to these positions, I was Senior Policy Officer at Open Society Foundations (OSF), where I worked to advance access to justice and legal empowerment through research, advocacy, litigation, and grantmaking in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Earlier in my career I co-founded and led the Immigration Advocates Network and served as law clerk to Justice Z.M. Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. My writing on access to justice and legal empowerment has appeared in more than 30 publications, and I have given more than 100 presentations and workshops in the US and around the world. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, the World Bank, and the International Development Research Centre (Canada). I currently serve as an advisor to the National Center for Access to Justice and am co-founder, with Rebecca Sandefur, of Frontline Justice and Justice Worker Lab. I live in Brooklyn, NY with my wife, daughter, and our dog Autumn.