Chi Mgbako

The Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at Fordham Law School

Chi Mgbako is clinical associate professor and founding director of the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at Fordham Law School in New York City. She and her students work with grassroots justice organizations on sexual and health rights as well as access to justice. She has conducted human rights fieldwork and advocacy in many countries, among them Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. Her publications have appeared in the global opinion pages of NYTimes.com, the International Herald Tribune, and The Huffington Post.

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