Sasha Filippova serves as Senior Staff Attorney at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), where she focuses primarily on accountability for human rights violations; gender justice, including sexual and gender-based violence; and governance. A US-based human rights non-profit organization, established in 2004, IJDH is a partnership of human rights advocates in Haiti and the US dedicated to tackling the root causes of injustice that impacts basic human rights in Haiti.
Prior to joining IJDH, Sasha served as a Senior Legal Fellow with the Center for Justice and Accountability, where she worked on litigating a crimes against humanity claim; and as a Legal Advisor and Fellow with the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative, where she focused on confronting gender-based violence and promoting women’s empowerment around the globe.
She started her legal career as an associate at the A&O Shearman law firm, where her practice included international dispute resolution, public international law, and human rights. While there, she served as one of the lead counsel in a successful lawsuit against the Syrian government for its extrajudicial killing of war correspondent Marie Colvin, and advised clients on a variety of legal and policy matters, including interstate territorial disputes and UN Security Council reform.
