Sandra Coliver, an international human rights lawyer, led the civic space team of the Open Society Justice Initiative for more than a dozen years. She and her team supported groups around the world to litigate and promote law reform to defend the rights to protest, speak and associate freely, and expose and analyze information of public interest. Previously, she directed the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability, which continues to work with survivors to hold persecutors accountable in US courts. She worked for three years in Bosnia after the break-up of Yugoslavia for the UN, OSCE and International Crisis Group. She was the first Law Program Director of Article 19, the International Centre Against Censorship. She has written or edited several books, chapters, and journal articles; served on the faculty of the Summer Program on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of American University Washington College of Law; clerked for the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; and worked as a criminal defense lawyer. She has served on several boards of directors, including of the Guernica Centre for International Justice and the US section of Amnesty International.