Ashleigh Lussenden

Ashleigh Lussenden (@alussenden) is a JD student, Class of 2021, at Berkeley Law and a fellow at The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. She has served as the external relations editor for the Berkeley Journal of Law and Technology, co-chair of the Native American Law Students Association, student advisory board member for the Hearst Museum, and an intern in the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC). She co-authored the IHRLC working paper, “Human Rights Without Support of the Concerned State: A Comparative Analysis of Successive Human Rights Council Mechanisms Established for Burundi and Myanmar” (2020).

Ashleigh holds in Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stony Brook University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a B.A. in Biology and Psychology from the University of Denver.