Nicole Phillips

Adjunct Professor Nicole Phillips is a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and assistant director for Haiti programs at USF’s Center for Law and Global Justice. She regularly provides legal analysis on Haiti's earthquake reconstruction and November 2010 elections to international media, including appearances on CNN, BBC, CBC, Al Jazeera, and KPFA. Phillips serves on the Human Rights Advocates Board of Directors and has appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, U.N. Human Rights Committee, U.N. Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination, and U.N. Commission on the Status of Women on various human rights issues. She is also an advisory board member to the University of California Haiti Initiative. Before joining IJDH, Phillips spent 10 years with Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she served as general counsel to unions and employee benefit trust funds across the country, arbitrated collective bargaining disputes, and managed a caseload in federal and state courts involving labor, employment, health insurance, and environmental regulations.

Phillips' recent publications and reports include "One Year After the Earthquake: Haitians Still Living in Crisis,""Hold New, Open, Fair Elections" in the Miami Herald Tribune, "Haiti’s Novem­ber 28 Elec­tions: Try­ing to Legit­imize the Ille­git­i­mate," and "Facing Man-Made Disaster in Haiti: Failed Policies Leave People With Few Options" in the Houston Chronicle.