Sienna Merope-Synge

Sienna Merope-Synge is a co-supervisor of the Global Justice Clinic’s project on Human Rights in Haiti’s Emerging Mining Sector and co-teaches the Global Justice Clinic Seminar. She is also a Staff Attorney with the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, working between New York and Port-au-Prince. Her work has a particular focus on the accountability of international actors in Haiti, including leading global advocacy efforts to secure remedies for victims of the UN-introduced Haiti cholera epidemic and child support for victims of peacekeeper sexual exploitation in Haiti. She frequently provides expert commentary on human rights in Haiti and UN accountability issues as a guest lecturer and in the media. Before joining IJDH, Sienna worked as a United Nations consultant on transitional justice and gender-based violence issues, as a public law litigation attorney with the law firm of Herbert Smith Freehills, and served as judicial clerk to the Honorable TF Bathurst, Chief Justice of NSW, Australia.

Companies

• Advocacy and Campaigns Manager Crisis Action (2020)
• Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law NYU School of Law (2019)
• Legal Advocacy Director Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) (2015 — 2020)
• Graduate Fellow NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (2015 — 2015)
• Solicitor, Public Law and Commercial Litigation Herbert Smith Freehills (2014 — 2014)
• Consultant, Gender Based Violence and Transitional Justice United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014 — 2014)
• Research Director Chief Justice of NSW (2012 — 2013)

Education

• Bachelor of Arts/Law (First Class Hons); Diploma in Arts (Asian Studies) University of Melbourne (2006 — 2011)
• Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with Merit The Australian National University (2011 — 2013)
• Master in Laws (International Legal Studies) New York University (2014 — 2015)