Kristen Connors, Esq

Secretary/Treasurer

Kristen Connors has a deep-rooted passion for international peace and justice. As an undergraduate student, she was particularly interested in Peace Studies, and this led her to write a thesis entitled “Finding Peace through Religious Difference: Healing the Wounds of Violent Conflict through Interfaith Dialogue.” Since then her life journey took her back to her home-state of Vermont, where she spent several years working in her community, before returning to law school to study public interest and international law.

 

While in law school, Kristen completed student externships with the Federal Public Defender in the Northern District of Ohio, and at Catholic Charities-Migration and Refugee Services. As a third-year law student, she worked in CWRU’s Immigration Clinic where she handled a variety of immigration cases including applications for asylum, humanitarian parole, green card applications, and a variety of other immigrant and non-immigrant visa applications.

Kristen also served as the managing editor of the Canada-U.S. Law Journal during her third year of law school, and was a member of the Yemen Accountability Project, where she helped co-author and edit two white papers about criminal accountability for state, individual, and corporate perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Yemeni civil war. Kristen was a member of CWRU Law’s International Criminal Court Moot Court team, which came in second place in the national ICC Moot Court competition, advancing the team to the international rounds where they competed (virtually) at the Hague in the summer of 2021. Kristen helped revitalize CWRU Law’s student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and served as Treasurer of the International Law Society in her second year of law school.

 

She received a J.D., (Concentration in International Law, with honors), cum laude, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2021, and a B.A. (International Relations & Religious Studies), magna cum laude, The College of Wooster, 2012.

 

 

Today, Kristen has returned to Vermont where she works in a small private practice firm. She is so excited to join the Board of Global Justice Intelligence Eyes, Inc. so she can continue to work to advance justice for victims of horrific crimes all over the world.