It’s our great pleasure today to welcome back IntLawGrrl Cindy Soohoo and introduce Suzannah Phillips as an IntLawGrrls contributor.

Cindy is the Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at City University of New York Law School.  She is an expert on women’s human rights, the human rights of youth in conflict with the law, and human rights advocacy in the United States.

Suzannah is the Senior Legal Advisor at Women Enabled International, where her work focuses on legal advocacy with the United Nations and other international and regional forums to strengthen human rights standards on the rights of women and girls with disabilities. Previously, she has worked as a Clinical Fellow with the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law, Legal Adviser for International Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Human Rights Fellow at VIVO POSITIVO in Santiago, Chile. Suzannah received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.

Their first post will discuss the I.V. v. Bolivia case. Heartfelt welcome!