Alyson graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors in Political Science from Princeton University in 2006, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Scholar, co-editor of the Daily Princetonian opinion page and Vice-President of the University’s Organization of Women Leaders. After graduating from Princeton, Alyson worked on access to justice issues in sub-Saharan Africa as a Princeton Project 55 Fellow at the Cyrus Vance Center for International Justice. Subsequently, she worked with the International Rescue Committee in their Sierra Leone office, providing program support to IRC’s gender-based violence and maternal health programs. She then spent two years with the Center for Reproductive Right’s International Legal Program where she worked on UN advocacy projects around maternal mortality as a human rights issue and reproductive rights violations as forms of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Alyson spent her 1L summer at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights in Nairobi in the Reforms and Accountability Unit. As a 2L she will join NYU’s International Human Rights Clinic. After graduation Alyson plans to continue working as a human rights advocate, with a focus on women’s human rights in the United States and abroad.
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