Dr. Beatrice Lindstrom

Biography

Beatrice Lindstrom is a Lecturer and Senior Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School specializing in International Human Rights Law. Her work primarily focuses on access to remedies for human rights violations and aiding accountability in Haiti. Before joining Harvard, she served as the Legal Director at the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, where she collaborated with Haitian lawyers and activists to elevate grassroots human rights struggles to the international stage. Lindstrom has over a decade of experience in advocacy litigation, particularly noted for her lead role in the landmark case Georges v. United Nations, which sought accountability for the cholera epidemic caused by UN peacekeepers in Haiti. Her efforts in this case earned her the Recent Graduate Award from the NYU Law Alumni Association and the Zanmi Ayiti Award from the Haiti Solidarity Network of Northeast. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and is recognized as a country expert on Haiti for Freedom House. Lindstrom has appeared in various media outlets, including the New York Times and BBC, where she advocates for reform within the UN human rights system. She holds a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar, and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.

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