Anna Carroll

Anna Carroll is an LLM student and Human Rights Fellow from Galway, Ireland.  Prior to her studies at Columbia, she worked as a Human Rights Intern with UN Women in Geneva and as a Legal Policy Advisor at the Irish Mission to the UN in New York. 
Anna was awarded the Human Rights Fellowship and the William Bayard Cutting Jr Fellowship in International Law to support her studies at Columbia.  While at Columbia, Anna worked as a research assistant for the TrialWatch programme with the Clooney Foundation for Justice. She also served as a research assistant for Professor Richard Dicker on the Crimes Against Humanity convention, contributed to a Human Rights Watch research project on international humanitarian law, and completed an externship with the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the DPRK. She was awarded the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law. Anna hopes to work on the protection of human rights in armed conflict. She has been awarded an LLM Pathways Fellowship to work as a Human Rights Associate with the UN Human Rights office in Palestine following her graduation.

Marion Muringe Ogeto

Marion Muringe Ogeto is a Kenyan human rights lawyer and an LL.M. candidate at Columbia Law School as well as a proud first-generation university graduate. She is deeply passionate about gender justice and has spent over five years working on legal advocacy, strategic litigation, and research to advance the rights of women and girls across Africa. She has worked at various national and international organizations, including Equality Now, where she led regional campaigns addressing sexual violence, anti-trafficking, and the ratification of the Maputo Protocol across Eastern and Southern Africa. While working at KELIN Kenya, she engaged in national advocacy in Kenya on health and reproductive rights, including access to safe abortion and the rights of women living with HIV. Her approach is grounded in pan-African feminist values and a belief in collective liberation.

At Columbia, Marion was part of the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic, where she advocated for the reform of sedition laws in Thailand. She also received the ARGP grant to lead an anti-racism research project examining the experiences of African students in elite institutions. Marion was awarded both the Human Rights Fellowship and the Global Public Service Fellowship at Columbia in recognition of her extensive experience and unwavering commitment to public interest and social justice.

Sabriyya Pate

Sabriyya Pate graduated from the Columbia Law School Class of 2025 as a Max Berger Public Interest/Public Service Fellow and Academic Scholar. During law school she served as a president of the Human Rights Association, Notes Editor for the Columbia Law Review, research assistant for professors Sarah Knuckey and Susan Sturm, and as a participant in the Uncontested Divorce Project at Sanctuary for Families. She also worked as an extern in the Knight First Amendment Institute and a student attorney in the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic. She was a Human Rights Institute 1L Advocate
and Justice John Paul Stevens Fellow. Before law school she held many roles includig helping start a product risk assessment program at Twitter. Sabriyya earned her B.A. from Duke University.

Rachel Walters is an Australian lawyer. At Columbia, she focused on issues related to human rights and conflict, with an emphasis on children’s rights and accountability for mass atrocities. She externed with the UN Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice and Reparation, and was a Research Assistant for Professor Richard Dicker and the Clooney Foundation for Justice's TrialWatch initiative. Alongside her studies, Rachel organized a conference with several human rights organizations and UN Member States on the draft crimes against humanity treaty, served on the Board of the CLS Human Rights Association, and presented her research on child soldiers and transitional justice at the CLS Human Rights Symposium. Prior to Columbia, Rachel worked on children’s rights and gender-based violence with Palestine refugees at
UNRWA in Jordan, and plans to return to the Middle East after graduation to monitor and report on grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Brooke Greenwood

Brooke Greenwood is an Australian lawyer with a background in human rights, community lawyering and politics. She has previously worked for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, the Justice and Equity Centre, as an associate to former Chief Justice of the High Court, Robert French AC, and as Chief of Staff to Senator Patrick Dodson. She was a co-organiser of the first Rebellious Lawyering Conference in Australia. She is passionate about using the law to build the power of progressive social movements for change.

Michael Weaver (J.D., Class of ’25) was inspired to pursue a career as a human rights lawyer after spending several years studying and working in the field of international relations. Prior to law school, Michael earned a graduate degree in international policy from the George Washington University, where he partnered with the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct a year-long research project into Sri Lanka’s post-conflict development policies. During his time at CLS, Michael interned at human rights organization in Türkiye and South Africa, participated in the Human Rights Clinic, and worked as a Managing Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He is excited to begin the next step of his career at the International Legal Foundation this coming fall.