Suzannah Phillips

Suzannah Phillips joined the Center as a Legal Fellow in 2009 before becoming the Legal Adviser for International Advocacy. Her work at the Center focuses on legal advocacy with the United Nations and other international and regional forums to strengthen reproductive rights standards. Suzannah has also co-authored several Center publications, including Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive Women in Chilean Health Facilities and The Right to Contraceptive Information and Services for Women and Adolescents.

Prior to joining the Center, Suzannah-who is fluent in Spanish-worked with VIVO POSITIVO in Santiago, Chile, where she led a fact-finding mission to investigate discrimination against women living with HIV in Chilean health facilities and partnered with the Center to bring the case of F.S. v. Chile to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Suzannah received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a teaching assistant for the Human Rights Clinic, the Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (a publication of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review), and a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. She was awarded the Outstanding Clinical Student award and a Certificate in Comparative and International Law. Suzannah received her B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University.