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Luna Borges Pereira Santos is an Associate Research Scholar and Supervising Staff Attorney at Columbia University’s Human Rights Institute Clinic. She leads projects addressing systemic inequalities and climate change while protecting human rights defenders in historically targeted territories. Luna is passionate about mentoring students interested in transformational advocacy and building sustainable partnerships with community-led organizations in the Global South, supporting legal work within Regional and International Human Rights Systems. A lawyer and international human rights advocate, she possesses thirteen years of professional and academic experience working with civil society organizations and social movements across Latin America and the Caribbean, employing various social and legal advocacy strategies focused on gender justice and sexual and reproductive health rights. Luna completed her PhD in Constitutional Law at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and holds a Master's degree in Law. Her academic research examines the interconnections of gender, race, class, and territory in law. Currently, her research focuses on international comparative law, feminist legal theory, health law policy, and social racial justice. She received her LLM from Harvard Law School as a Lemann Foundation fellow and is a graduate of the Public Service Venture Fund program.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)