Tendayi Achiume

Tendayi Achiume is the Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at University of California Los Angeles, School of Law where she co-teaches the International Justice Clinic.  As a Fox International Fellow with the University of Cape Town she conducted research on the effectiveness of refugee protection in South Africa.  Thereafter, she joined Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg, where she provided direct legal services to refugees and asylum seekers as a Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow.  She also taught Civic Engagement with Human Rights at the International Human Rights Exchange, a program jointly administered by Witwatersrand University and Bard College.  She has worked in the field of human rights in Senegal and Kenya and practiced corporate law in New York, and served as a clerk on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.  She holds a JD from the Yale Law School and a Graduate Certificate in Development Studies from Yale University.