Biography
"Sabrina Mahtani is a Zambian-British lawyer and expert on access to justice for women. She currently serves as Director of Fellowships at the Clooney Foundation for Justice (Part-Time), leading their fellowship programme for early-career women lawyers from across Africa.
She was previously a Senior Policy Advisor for The Elders and led their Access to Justice Program. Prior to that she led Amnesty International’s research, litigation and advocacy work on Anglophone West Africa. She has consulted for a wide variety of organisations, including UNODC and Penal Reform International.
She co-founded AdvocAid, a feminist organisation in Sierra Leone providing access to justice for women in detention, and previously worked at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
She was a Wasserstein Fellow in Residence at Harvard Law School and is a non-resident fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation.
Sabrina is an award-winning writer and commentator on justice and human rights, and has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera and African Arguments. She also hosts the Women Beyond Walls podcast, the only podcast focused on spotlighting the global issue of the over-incarceration of women.
She holds a BA in Law and History from University College London and an LL.M. from New York University and is a part-time DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford.