Lisa J. Gambone will be working with the Office of International Organizations/Human Rights, Humanitarian and Social Affairs. She will be working on topics brought before the UN Human Rights Council, the General Assembly debates, and also on women’s issues.

Before becoming a Franklin Fellow, Gambone worked as an attorney at an international US law firm in London. She has also worked with the Prosecution for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, specifically in the Karemera proceedings and researching the prosecution of sexual violence under international criminal law; she observed the Caprivi treason trials in Namibia on behalf of Lawyers without Borders; she prepared reports on atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo with regard to prosecutions before the International Criminal Court; and she worked on cases before the European Court of Human Rights involving corporal punishment in UK schools and the expulsion of Roma (‘g"ypsies") from Italy. Gambone also worked with British and Northern Irish organizations on transitional justice issues in the devolution process.