LAWYERING ON THE MARGINS
November 30 – December 2, 2011
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lawyer Participants
Natasha Boshkova
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Skopje, Macedonia
Drug users, LGBT, sex workers
boskovanat@yahoo.com
Natasha Boshkova, Lawyer, holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Sts.
Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia (1999), and an M.A. in
Gender Studies from the University of Sarajevo, Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008). Between 2004 and 2006 she worked as a legal
advisor in the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning. Since June 2008 Natasha
has been engaged as a legal advisor in HOPS-Healthy Options Project Skopje, an
organization working with drug users and sex workers. She joined the Coalition Sexual
and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities in January 2010 and she litigates cases
of violation of human rights of drug users, sex workers, people living with HIV/AIDS
and LGBT people.
Marie Budtz Andersen
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Drug users
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mba@gadejuristen.dk
I graduated as a lawyer in 2007 where I started teaching at the Danish Police Academy
and at the same time volunteer with The Street Lawyers. In 2008 I was hired full-time
for a 3-year project at The Street Lawyers. The aim of the project was to document the
unmet need for legal aid among people who use drugs, the mentally ill, the homeless, and
street sex workers. We finished a report in August 2011 that found that our target group
has many varied problems that can often only be solved by informal problem-solving,
rather than the more formal legal approach that entails more written and impersonal
work. I have carried out out-reach legal aid in and around the open drug scene in
Copenhagen amongst some of the most marginalized populations in Denmark.
I have been a lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Copenhagen since 2008. I also work as an external lecturer for the Ministry
of Gender Equality.
Betty Maloba Bwakali
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Busia, Kenya
Sex workers
carkemunto@yahoo.com
I am a Kenyan lady aged 51 years. My firm is known as Maloba & Company Advocates,
based in Busia, a small town on the Kenya/ Uganda border. I have served as a state
counsel in the Attorney General’s office and served in the judiciary as a magistrate for 15
years. I work for various organizations on legal issues, which include children’s rights
and women’s rights. I am a protector and a defender of sex worker’s rights and have
worked with Survivors group since its inception.
Mikhail Golichenko
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Toronto, Canada
Drug users
mgolichenko@aidslaw.ca
As a Senior Policy Analyst, Mikhail leads the human rights research and advocacy work
of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network in Russian-speaking countries, with a
particular focus on drug policy issues. Prior to his appointment with the Legal Network,
Mikhail was a Legal Officer with the UNODC Country Office for the Russian Federation
in Moscow, where his work focused on the promotion of human rights and addressing
legal barriers to accessing effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs for
prisoners and people who inject drugs. His experience also includes working for the UN
Peacekeeping in West Africa and the Russian police service in different positions,
including as an instructor. Mikhail has a post-graduate degree in Russian civil law, and
has authored several publications on civil litigation issues in Russia. He has been a
member of the Russian Bar Association since 2007.
Nanna Gotfredsen
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Drug users, sex workers
nwg@gadejuristen.dk
Nanna is a lawyer and founder of Gadejuristen – The Danish Street Lawyers (1999), a
private NGO providing outreach legal aid and harm reduction services for people who
use drugs, street based sex workers, and homeless people, among others. Nanna has been
advocating for further implementation of harm reduction and for policy reforms for more
than a decade and teaching more than 3000 social workers, police officers, politicians,
nurses, and students on the rules in force, harm reduction and drug policy. For many
years Nanna has closely cooperated with the Danish Drug Users Union and also assisted
the Danish sex workers in organizing (2008).
Vanda Hamilton
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Melbourne, Australia
Drug users, sex workers
vhamilton@skls.org.au
Vanda Hamilton has been employed as the Drug Outreach Lawyer at St Kilda Legal
Service for five years. She undertook law as a mature aged student, graduating from the
University of Melbourne in 2001. Prior to undertaking law Vanda worked as a journalist,
community worker and in theatre. In her role as Drug Outreach Lawyer, Vanda attends
several agencies in the inner city area of St Kilda, which has been well known as a sex
work precinct since WWII. She also does outreach to agencies in other suburbs around St
Kilda. Vanda represents clients at court in criminal matters and undertakes other diverse
legal work.
Adrian Jjuuko
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Kampala, Uganda
LGBT
jjuukoa@gmail.com
Adrian Jjuuko is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and advocate. He is the Coordinator of
the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law- Uganda, the
coalition leading the fight against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. He is also the
Executive Director and Lead Lawyer at Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum
(HRAPF), an NGO that operates a legal aid clinic for sexual minorities.
Adrian led the team of lawyers and other professionals that presented the Coalition’s
submissions to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament in May
2011 and was instrumental in the successful prosecution of the case of Kasha Jacqueline
& 2 others v. The Rolling Stone Publications, which upheld the rights to privacy and
freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment for persons who are or are perceived to
be gay in Uganda. He is a researcher and an author with research interests in human
rights, the law, HIV/AIDS, and sexual minorities’ rights.
Hussein Khalid
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Mombasa, Kenya
Drug users
hkhalid2000@yahoo.com
Hussein Khalid is the Executive Director of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI)
which is based in Mombasa, Kenya. Mr. Khalid is very much involved in Kenya’s
reforms movement, having participated in a number of national processes, including
giving testimonies at the Commission to Investigate Post-Election Violence; the Interim
Independent Boundaries Review Commission; Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Commission; the Task Force on Constituency Development Fund (CDF); and the Task
Force on Police Reforms. In 2006 Mr. Khalid was identified amongst six civil society
leaders to meet the then United States’ Senator Mr. Barrack Obama during his visit to
Kenya, to discuss national matters including top level corruption and the state of human
rights in the country.
Before joining MUHURI, Mr. Khalid worked for various civil society groups including
Centre for Law and Research International (CLARION) and the Kenya Human Rights
Commission (KHRC). At CLARION, Mr. Khalid oversaw the implementation of
national programs on various subjects, including constitution education, gender rights,
good governance and general civic education. At KHRC, Mr. Khalid led the Coast
chapter and was attributed with the revival of the human rights network within the region.
Mr. Khalid’s background is in law, but he has also undertaken other courses including
Fundamentals of Social Accountability at Rhodes University (South Africa), International
Human Rights Convention at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Crime Prevention
in Kenya with the United States International University (USIU).
Emil Kiørboe
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Drug users
emk@gadejuristen.dk
I’m Bachelor of Laws and have been working at The Street Lawyers since 2006. I’m
putting the final hand on my Master assignment on Safe Injecting Facilities and Public
International Law these days, and am a board member in the Injection Room Association,
an NGO running the first Danish safe injection facility.
Kseniya Kirichenko
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St. Petersburg, Russia
LGBT
xenia.kirichenko@gmail.com
Kseniya Kirichenko is the legal assistance program coordinator at the Russian LGBT
Network, an inter-regional human rights NGO working for equality of all people
regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. Her activities include advocacy,
lobbying, direct legal assistance, legal education and training, research, and litigation to
advance gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in Russia.
Kseniya is also a senior lecturer at Novosibirsk State University and teaches legal
courses. She is founder and head of the board of Feminist and LGBT Human Rights
Organization-Gender and Law, a Novosibirsk-based NGO advocating at the regional
level for equal rights for LGBT people. Her activities include implementing a series of
educational events and public awareness campaigns for the LGBT community, as well as
organizing legal assistance for victims of discrimination and violence on grounds of
sexual orientation and gender identity. Kseniya holds a degree in law from Novosibirsk
State University and completed her postgraduate studies in law at the Institute of
Philosophy and Law at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science.
Stacey-Leigh Manoek
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Cape Town, South Africa
Sex workers
stacey-leigh@wlce.co.za
Stacey-Leigh Manoek joined the Women’s Legal Center in June 2008 as a Junior
Attorney. She holds an LLB degree from the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Stacey-Leigh built upon her education by completing a Winter Law School Program at
the University of Witswatersrand held in conjunction with Seattle University, and
completed a course in legal writing, global advocacy, advanced constitutional
jurisprudence and litigation. She completed her articles at the Legal Resource Centre and
gained experience in a range of areas, including land and housing law, refugee law, nonprofit organisations, and family law. She also spent time at the Athlone Legal Aid Office,
where she focused on criminal law and maintenance matters. She will bring her
commitment and passion for women’s rights to her work in relation to defending the
human rights of sex workers.
Iryna Marchuk
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Drug users
iryna.marchuk@jur.ku.dk
Dr. Iryna Marchuk is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of
Copenhagen (Denmark) and a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Lund University
(Sweden). She successfully defended her PhD thesis on ‘Reconciliation of World Major
Legal Systems Under the Umbrella of International Criminal Law: A Study on the Law
on Mens Rea’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen in January 2011. During
her PhD studies, she was affiliated as a Visiting Scholar with the world-renowned
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University (UK). She previously
graduated from the Master’s Programme in International Human Rights Law
administered by the Faculty of Law, Lund University in cooperation with the Raoul
Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden), and National
Law Academy (Ukraine). She was in legal training with the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (Prosecutor v Popovic et al, Srebrenica) and Special
Court for Sierra Leone (Prosecutor v Charles Taylor) in 2007-2008. Her research
interests lie within the fields of international criminal law, international criminal
procedure, international human rights law and international politics.
Ann Kathrin Nordbo
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Oslo, Norway
Drug users
ann.kathrin.nordbo@gatejuristen.no
I graduated as a lawyer in 2005 and started in The Street Lawyers in Oslo in 2006.
Gatejuristen was founded in August 2004 by Cathrine Moksness. The first client
reception took place on the 17th of January in 2005. Today there are 6 employees and
approximately 80 volunteers. The volunteers are mainly lawyers and jurists who work
pro bono for Gatejuristen after hours in their regular jobs.
Gatejuristen provides free legal aid to people with drug addiction. During years in
business Gatejuristen has had almost 2000 clients and has handled more than 3550
separate cases. We have had a marked increase in the number of cases the recent years.
Gatejuristen offers guidance on the rules of law and/or representation towards third
parties. Gatejuristen has put significant effort and resources into contributing to the
foundation of similar legal aid offices around Norway. By 2011, Gatejuristen has startet
an office in Tromsø, Bergen, Trondheim and Kristiansand with separate funding, and the
concept has also been met with great interest in other parts of Norway.
Joan Neto
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Kisumu, Kenya
Sex workers, MSM
joynetto@yahoo.com
Neto holds a Bachelors Degree (LLB Hons) from Moi University. She undertook her
postgraduate studies at the Kenya School of Law and thereafter was admitted as an
advocate of the high court of Kenya in 2006. She later worked as an associate in the law
firm of Ouma Njoga & Company Advocates and Mwamu & Compnay Advocates, where
she was privileged to be involved in substantial civil and commercial litigation.
Besides her private practice she has a passion for community work which she has done as
a pro bono lawyer/consultant, with NGOs such as FIDA, KELIN, COVAW (Coalition of
Violence against Women) and Keeping Alive Society’s Hope (KASH). In the past year
she has been actively working with marginalized groups, namely female sex workers and
MSM, under the auspices of KASH. She is a member of the Law society of Kenya
(LSK), East Africa Law Society of Kenya, Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA
KENYA), and Kenya Christian Lawyers Fellowship) (CLEAR KENYA).
Katrina Pacey
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Vancouver, Canada
Drug users, sex workers
katrina@pivotlegal.org
Katrina Pacey is the litigation director at Pivot Legal Society, a human rights
organization in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada’s poorest urban
neighborhood. She began working with Pivot in 2001, while in her second month of law
school. At that time, Pivot consisted of a small group of volunteers with a vision to
develop a grassroots legal advocacy organization. Katrina was instantly enamored with
the vision and mandate of the organization, which was to have lawyers and marginalized
persons work in partnership to create social change. Pivot uses strategic litigation, legal
education and law reform to create social change in a range of policy areas such as sex
workers' rights, police accountability, housing and homelessness, drug policy and youth
justice.
As litigation director, Katrina oversees all of Pivot’s public interest litigation and is also
the lead lawyer on Pivot’s sex work and drug policy campaigns. Katrina has also worked
on a range of other issues, including police violence, violence against women, child
protection, HIV/AIDS and prisoners’ rights. Katrina is actively involved in a number of
public interest cases, including representing a group of sex workers who have initiated a
constitutional challenge to the criminal laws relating to adult prostitution.
Priti Patel
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Sex workers, LGBT
pritip@salc.org.za
Priti is the Deputy Director and HIV Programme Manager for the Southern Africa
Litigation Centre (SALC) based in Johannesburg, South Africa. SALC works with
lawyers and civil society organizations in 10 countries in southern Africa to further
human rights and rule of law primarily through training and strategic litigation. Through
her work at SALC, Priti has been involved in numerous cases representing the rights of
marginalized populations, including challenging the mandatory HIV testing of sex
workers and defending LGBTI persons against criminal prosecution. Priti started her
legal career interning with the HIV Unit at the Lawyer’s Collective in Bombay, India.
Prior to joining SALC, she was challenging US torture and interrogation policy post 9/11,
including representing Afghans and Iraqis who were allegedly tortured at U.S. facilities
in the two countries.
Oksana Pokalchuk
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Kyiv, Ukraine
LGBT
oksana.insight@gmail.com
Since 2008 Pokalchuk has been a lawyer with the NGO Insight. Her responsibilities
include writing appeals to courts, letters, agreements, providing individual legal
consultations to Insight staff and members of LGBT community of Kyiv and Ukraine in
the fields of civil, family, criminal and administrative law.
Pokalchuk is also in the process of writing a dissertation (PhD) on "the right to gender
identity as a personal non-property right," speaks at conferences and writes papers on this
topic.Since 2010, Pokalchuk has been cooperating with "without frontiers" public
organizations, which are engaged in advocacy against racism.
Dhoho A. Sastro
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Jakarta, Indonesia
Drug users
dsastro@lbhmasyarakat.org
I am Dhoho A. Sastro. I’m one of the founders of LBH Masyarakat (Community Legal
Aid Institute) in Indonesia. I am responsible for advocacy and community legal
empowerment. Our main service is providing legal aid for the marginalized. Providing
legal aid, for us, doesn’t only mean providing lawyers for the marginalized, but also
enabling the marginalized communities to defend their rights by themselves. For this
reason our main focus is not case handling, but capacity building among the
communities, education of paralegals from the community, and increasing public
awareness about our work. Paralegals are key to us in providing legal aid. Their role is
bridging the legal aid for the community and enhancing the advantages.
Hajdi Shterjova Simonovikj
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Skopje, Macedonia
Drug users, sex workers
sterjova@yahoo.com
Hajdi Shterjova Simonovikj holds an LL.B degree from the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus
Primus", Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, and has been practicing law in
Macedonia since 2001. Starting from 2004, she became involved in HOPS, as a legal
advisor and a lawyer in their Program for support of sex workers and their families, and
since May 2006, also in the Program for harm reduction from drug use. She is the first
lawyer to start working with HOPS and has had seven years of work in legal NGOs,
focusing on the promotion and defense of the rights of sex workers and drug users.
For one year, she has worked as an outreach lawyer (a street lawyer) together with other
outreach team members (social workers and an outreach worker) on the Open scene in
Skopje. Since the second half of 2006 when the drop-in center for sex workers was
opened, she has been holding legal advice sessions there. Since December 2008 she has
been legally representing sex workers in three strategic legal suits before the Macedonian
courts and in ECtHR.
Chrispine Sibande
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Lilongwe, Malawi
LGBT, sex workers
chrispinsibande@gmail.com
Chrispine Gwalawala Sibande is a human rights lawyer based in Malawi. His interests
include sexual minority rights, sex workers, reproductive and sexual health rights at
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) level using SADC instruments and
public litigation. He has represented many people in Malawian courts on issues of human
rights. He has made presentations at international and domestic conferences, meetings,
workshops and colloquia on various topics related to human rights. Part of his work has
been published by World Health Organisation. He holds a Masters of Law in Human
Rights Specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights. Currently he works as
Deputy Director for Legal Services at Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), as a
Board Chairperson for Center for Development of the People (CEDEP) and a member of
Malawi Special Law Commission on Review of Domestic Violence Law.
Tripti Tandon
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New Delhi, India
Drug users, sex workers, LGBT
tripti.tandon@lawyerscollective.org
Tripti Tandon is a New Delhi based lawyer, heading legal interventions on sex work,
drug policy and LGBT rights at the Lawyers Collective, India.
Gennadyi Tokarev
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Drug users
gtoukr@gmail.com
Gennardiy Tokarev is a practicing lawyer based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 2006 he has
been engaged in providing legal aid for vulnerable groups as a lawyer, manager of an
office, and a legal expert for the offices providing legal aid. He is particularly interested
in the problem of realization of human rights during criminal proceedings. Since 2008,
Gennadiy has worked as a legal consultant for projects coordinated/funded by the
International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program and the Law and Health
Initiative (LAHI) of the Open Society Foundations, providing direct legal aid for IDUs,
patients of substitution therapy and HIV-infected people in Ukraine. He is planned to be a
manager starting at the end of 2011 for a network of lawyers providing legal aid for these
vulnerable groups.
Corinna Van Wyk
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Windhoek, Namibia
LGBT, sex workers
cvanwyk@lac.org.na
My name is Corinna Jonéa van Wyk. I am a legal Practitioner by profession, practicing as
such under the name and style of a non-profit organization called the Legal Assistance
Centre. I was in private practice for 6 years before I changed to human rights work and I
primarily worked as a litigant in civil law, dealing with corporate issues and contract law
however, I also acted as a criminal lawyer in many instances. The Legal Assistance
Centre is a public interest law firm and we strive to make the law accessible to those with
the least access, through education, law reform, research, litigation, legal advice,
representation and lobbying, with the ultimate aim of creating and maintaining a human
rights culture in Namibia.
Our current project specifically aims to address issues related to marginalized groups,
especially sex workers and LGBTI rights. We aim to advocate, create awareness and
lobby for change in the legal system that does not recognize sex work and LGBTI rights
as well as equip the persons affected by such denial with the necessary knowledge to
protect their rights as humans.
Kristina Wertz
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San Francisco, USA
Transgender people, LGBT
krisitina@transgenderlawcenter.org
Kristina Wertz is the Legal Director at the Transgender Law Center in the United States.
The Transgender Law Center is at the heart of a movement of transgender people, our
families and our allies who are changing the law and transforming the legal system to
allow us all to be who we are. Kristina is strongly committed to gender justice and is
honored to spend her time fighting against the discrimination that trans and other people
who don’t fit current gender stereotypes face. As a feminist at heart, she recognizes that
our struggles for equality and authentic self-expression are all connected and related.
Kristina is from San Francisco, California and is eager to learn about the work of activists
fighting for change around the world.
Open Society Foundations Participants
Jonathan Cohen
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New York, USA
jcohen@sorosny.org
Jonathan Cohen is Director of the Law and Health Initiative and Senior Human Rights
Advisor to the Open Society Public Health Program. He leads a portfolio of work to
advance legal aid, litigation, and law reform related to health and human rights in over
fifteen countries. He was previously a researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
Program at Human Rights Watch. In 2011, he was appointed co-chair of the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Reference Group on HIV and Human
Rights.
A Canadian lawyer, Mr. Cohen was educated at Yale College, the University of
Cambridge, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He served as a law clerk at
the Supreme Court of Canada and as co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law Review.
Tamar Ezer
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New York, USA
tezer@sorosny.org
Tamar Ezer (J.D., L.L.M.) is a Senior Program Officer in the Law and Health Initiative at
the Open Society Foundations (OSF), where she works on international health and human
rights issues in Eastern and Southern Africa and the former Soviet Union. She joined
OSF in the fall of 2006, following a teaching fellowship with the Georgetown University
Law Center’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic. While at the Clinic, she
supervised test cases challenging discriminatory laws and oversaw fact-finding and
legislative projects in Nigeria, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Philippines. Tamar
has also taught International Women’s Rights at Tulane Law School’s summer program
and has written various articles on the rights of women and children. She has also served
as a law clerk for the Southern District of New York and the Supreme Court of Israel.
Tamar is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was
editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Tatyana Margolin
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New York, USA
tmargolin@sorosny.org
Tatyana joined Public Health Program as a LAHI-IHRD Program Officer in June 2009
and is focusing on integration of legal aid and harm reduction initiatives. Tatyana was
previously a foreign law clerk in the chambers of Justice Yoram Danziger at the Supreme
Court of Israel, and a staff attorney at the Women's Law Project, a non-profit legal
advocacy organization committed to fighting discrimination against women. She has
extensive experience in reproductive rights litigation and social and economic justice
organizing. While in law school, Tatyana conducted research for Professor Richard
Delgado in the field of critical race theory, worked as a summer associate at the National
Women's Law Center in Washington, and was a research associate for the Special Court
for Sierra Leone. Tatyana holds an LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of
Nottingham and a J.D. from the University Of Pittsburgh School of Law. She was
admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 2007.
Kirsten Ruch
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New York, USA
kruch@sorosny.org
Kirsten Ruch joined the Public Health Program in June 2010 as an administrative
assistant supporting both the Law and Health Initiative and general Public Health
Program tasks. Kirsten graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and a certificate in Women and Gender Studies. She spent the
Spring 2002 semester abroad in Kenya, performing ecological and biological field
research. Prior to joining OSF, Kirsten spent two years in Thailand through fellowships
with Princeton in Asia. She spent the first year teaching English to kindergarteners, fifth
graders, and sixth graders and the second year handling English communication and
development for a Chiang Mai-based NGO that focused on child-friendly schools, early
childhood development, and orphaned and vulnerable children living at or near the ThaiBurmese border.
David Scamell
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New York, USA
dscamell@sorosny.org
David Scamell is a joint program officer for the Public Health Program’s Law and Health
Initiative and the Sexual Health and Rights Project. His work at OSF focuses on
supporting civil society to use the law and legal tools in order to increase access to health
care and advance the health-related rights of those who are marginalized because of their
sexual practices, sexual orientation, and/ or gender identity. Prior to joining OSF, David
was the Manager of Policy, Planning and Research at ACON, an LGBT community
health and HIV organization in Sydney, Australia. He has also led the Gay and Lesbian
Rights Lobby, an Australian human rights advocacy group. David holds a Masters in
International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and a Bachelor of Law
and Bachelor of Arts (Politics and International Relations) from the University of New
South Wales.
Shari Turitz
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New York, USA
sturitz@sorosny.org
Shari Turitz became Director of Programs in the Public Health Program at OSF in
January 2008. From 1997-2007 she worked at the Synergos Institute where she ran a
global program to build philanthropy and foundations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Prior to that she was Deputy Director of the Guatemala Human Rights
Commission/USA, consulted to the Covenant House Latin America programs and
worked for the UNICEF NGO Committee on Exploited Children where she researched
and wrote a report on global NGO initiatives on child labor. Ms. Turitz holds a BA in
Political Science and Latin American Studies from Tufts University and an MA from the
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.