INSTRUCTORS & SPEAKERS
May 22-26, 2023 Legal Boot Camp/Seminar
Fellowship Components: over the course of the fellowship, fellows engage in three major programmatic components: (1) Legal Boot Camp (training seminars), (2) Field Placement Assignments (legal internships & capstone projects), and (3) Policy & Diplomacy.
Fellows are required to successfully complete the Legal Boot Camp/Seminar from May 22-26, 2023, prior to beginning field placement assignments. Program curriculum integrates a “legal continuum” of targeted issues that impact or contribute to development efforts. The following is an overview of the core curriculum, instructors, and speakers:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries
U.S. Congressman
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Stacey Plaskett
U.S. Congresswoman
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Didacus Jules
Director General
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States – OECS
FOUNDER & PROGRAM DIRECTOR:
John L. Woods Jr.
Co-Director, Howard University School of Law ADR Program
Managing Partner, Woods Global Dispute Resolution
SOCIAL JUSTICE & HUMAN RIGHTS
Gabriel Godoy, PhD
Chief of Mission in the Dominican Republic
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( Brazil)
Ivonne Garza
Senior Associate
O’Neil Institute, Georgetown University (U.S.)
Yannick Gill (former Fellow)
Legislative Counsel
Human Rights Lawyer
U.S. House of Representatives
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
David Louis Rosenblatt
Regional Principal Economic Adviser, Caribbean Country Department (CCB)
Inter-American Development Bank (U.S.)
Dr. Joy Kategekwa
Strategy Advisor on Africa
United Nations Development Programme (Uganda)
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Alexandra Whitaker
Trade Staff Director/Chief Trade Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives (U.S.)
Jan Yves Remy
Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law (UWI)
Trade Law and Policy Expert
(Barbados/St. Lucia)
Kholofelo Kugler
International Trade Lawyer
The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (South Africa)
Vincent J. Atkins
LDC Trade Policy/Technical Advisor
CARICOM Secretariat
(Barbados/St. Lucia)
Darren P. Riley
Partner/International Trade Lawyer
Riley Trade Law (U.S.)
U.S. PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Richard Mattox
Partner
Mattox Woolfolk (U.S.)
Nicole Elam
CEO
National Bankers Association (U.S.)
Nichole Francis Reynolds
VP & Global Head of Government Relations
Servicenow (U.S.)
TRANSACTIONS & INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Angelique Strong-Marks
Chief Legal Officer
Cars.com (U.S.)
Lakeshia Ford
President & CEO
Ford Communicatons (Ghana)
Stephanie Adu–Mudikongo
CEO
Colorbox Cosmetics (Ghana)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Allen Waxman
President & CEO
CPR-International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (U.S.)
Shan Greer
President & CEO
BVI International Arbitration Centre (St. Lucia)
Jeanne Charles
Arbitrator & Mediator (U.S.)
Nania Owusu-Ankomah
International Arbitrator & Partner
Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah (Ghana)
Arthur Matthews
Mediator & Professor
Penn State University (U.S.)
Scott Vesel
Partner
Three Crowns LLP (U.S.)
ETHICS
Kwaku Agyeman-Budu
Dean
African Centre on Law & Ethics
Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration Law School (Ghana)
Kandis Gibson
President-elect
Women’s Bar Association (U.S.)
Dr. Antonius R. Hippolyte
Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies and Research)
Faculty of Law at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus
(Barbados/St. Lucia)