Rights in Exile Newsletter


Lucia Slot

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Lucia completed her MA degree in International Criminology at the Free University of Amsterdam (2016), for which she conducted ethnographic...

Nicolas Parent

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Nicolas is a Research Associate at the Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru. He has experience as a...

Sirak Akalu Iyassu

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Sirak is a lawyer, a writer and a social entrepreneur from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He obtained his BSc in computer...

Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Cristina is a political scientist, specialising in conflictology, humanitarian action, and forced migration, with 20 years of experience in governance...

Fiona McKinnon

Editor-in-Chief Rights in Exile Newsletter

Fiona co-edited the Rights in Exile newsletter for six years before becoming the publication’s Editor in Chief. She has practiced...

Christian Jorgensen

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter Nov 2017 - Present

Christian Jorgensen is a law student at the University of New Mexico School of Law. He is a graduate of...

Nejla Sammakia

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Nejla has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University College Cork, Ireland, where she examined EU efforts to provide protection...

Taylor Brooks

Editor Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, 2019–Present

Taylor is a PhD Candidate in the Media, Communications and Sociology Department at the University of Leicester.  The central focus...