Ashley S. Kinseth

Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer, researcher, and writer with more than a decade of experience working on some of the world's most acute protection crises. Her work spans field research, legal analysis, and public writing across issues of statelessness, refugee rights, armed conflict, and corporate accountability, and has taken her from conflict zones in Southeast Asia to mining communities in Central Africa to displacement camps on the Indian subcontinent.

She has conducted extensive field research in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India, and has held positions with the UN Office on the Prevention of Genocide, CARE International, The Carter Center, and the International Senior Lawyers Project, where her work spanned projects across more than fifteen countries. In 2018, she founded the Stateless Dignity Project, an independent initiative advancing the rights of stateless and displaced communities in collaboration with grassroots civil society organizations across the region.

Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, among others. She has spoken on international human rights law at venues including the French Assemblée Nationale, the World Conference on Statelessness in The Hague, and Stanford University.

She holds a JD from Columbia Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Law Review, and an MA in International Policy Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She speaks French.