Katie Redford

Katharine "Katie" Redford (born March 7, 1968) is an American human rights lawyer and activist who is credited with spearheading a movement to hold international companies accountable for overseas abuse in their home court jurisdictions, and in doing so, opened up new possibilities in human rights law. Along with her husband, human rights activist Ka Hsaw Wa from Burma/Myanmmar, she is the co-founder of EarthRights International, a non-profit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate/government accountability. She left EarthRights in 2019 after 25 years to lead the newly founded [https://equationcampaign.org/ Equation Campaign], a ten-year funding initiative working to bring about a safe future by enhancing the power of movements to keep oil and gas in the ground.

Redford is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law (UVA), where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and served as counsel to plaintiffs in EarthRights's landmark case Doe v. Unocal. Redford received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1995 to establish EarthRights, and helped build the organization to a global institution with offices in Burma, Thailand, Peru and Washington, D.C. In addition to working on EarthRight's litigation and teaching at the EarthRights Schools, Redford has served as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University. She has published on various issues associated with human rights and corporate accountability, in addition to co-authoring ERI reports such as ''In Our Court'', ''Shock and Law'', and ''Total Denial Continues''. In 2006, Redford was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow. Provided by Wikipedia