Rachel Ordu Dan-Harry

Rachel Ordu Dan-Harry serves as an associate in UUSC's Environmental Justice Program. Fueled by her experiences growing up in Nigeria and observing injustice against women and children, she works to advance the human right to water and other forms of environmental justice.

While working as an attorney in Nigeria, Dan-Harry volunteered with the International Federation of Women Lawyers, an organization that protects the rights of women and children, where she learned the necessity of community engagement and public-policy advocacy for creating change. She also participated in campaigns for the cancellation of the foreign debts of countries in the Global South from 2004 to 2005.

Dan-Harry has a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Benin, Nigeria, and is certified to practice law in Nigeria. She also earned a master of laws degree in intercultural human rights from St. Thomas University in Miami, Fla., and has written articles about Nigerian women in politics and the impact of foreign debts on the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights in sub-Saharan Africa. She interned with UUSC's Environmental Justice Program between 2006 and 2007.