Elisa Slattery

Elisa Slattery is the Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Africa in the International Legal Program. Her work focuses on promoting reproductive rights through national, regional, and international accountability mechanisms and addressing the intersection of HIV and reproductive rights. Prior to joining the Center, Elisa worked at the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya as a Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellow. She has also worked as a consultant on workers’ rights issues in Kenya and conducted comparative legal and human rights research on prisoners’ parental rights at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice. She received her JD from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She has an MA in History from Duke University and a BA from the University of Virginia.