Julia Harrington

Julia Harrington

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Julia Harrington is Senior Legal Officer for Equality and Citizenship. After graduation from law school, she was an echoing green fellow, working for two years as a legal officer at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia. In 1997 she co-founded and became executive director of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, also based in the Gambia, which became a leader in human rights litigation in the African regional system. She and the co-founder of the Institute, Alpha Fall, won Ashoka fellowships for the Institute’s work. She joined the Justice Initiative in 2003.