Email

davisl@mail.law.cuny.edu

Phone

(718) 340-4148

Office

270H

Lisa Davis is the Human Rights Advocacy Director for MADRE. She received her J.D. from CUNY Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the New York City Law Review, and her M.A. in International Policy from American University. For over ten years she has worked as an advocate for human rights and has written extensively on international women's human rights issues, including on LGBTQ rights and sex worker rights.

Lisa currently serves as the Coordinator for the Lawyers' Earthquake Response Network (LERN) Gender Working Group. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s International Human Rights Committee and the National Lawyers’ Guild Working Group on Haiti. Lisa recently returned to CUNY Law School as an Adjunct Professor of Law for the International Women's Human Rights Clinic.