It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Keina Yoshida.

Keina is a human rights barrister at Doughy Street Chambers, London. Keina has an international and domestic practice with a particular focus on equality and non-discrimination, women’s rights and LGBT rights. Her cases include representing survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse, and cases before international and regional courts on violence against women and reproductive rights. She is currently a visiting lecturer at City University, London where she teaches International Human Rights Law and Practice on the LLM programme and she supervises Masters students on the Women, Peace and Security programme in the Gender Department at the LSE. She obtained her PhD in 2015 from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Heartfelt welcome!