As Global Advocacy Strategist, Mayuri is responsible for advancing UUSC’s international human rights engagement at the UN and other regional and international human rights institutions in the areas of climate-forced displacement, migration justice, and international justice and accountability. She supports partners by developing strategies for effective advocacy, accompanying partners at international advocacy events, and engaging UUSC’s supporters.

Mayuri is an international human rights and criminal lawyer from Australia. She has investigated and prosecuted atrocity crimes in South-East Asia on behalf of the United Nations, advised the Australian government on international human rights law and international crime cooperation, and worked with human rights defenders around the world. Prior to joining UUSC, she co-taught the international human rights clinic at Stanford Law School. Mayuri also served as UUSC’s Senior Partnership Officer for Migrant Justice and Crisis Response in 2018 and 2019.

Mayuri holds a Master of Laws from New York University, and a joint Bachelor of Arts and Law with Honors from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2018 to 2019.