Staff Attorney
Ian provides legal advice, information, and direct representation to young survivors of dating violence. In addition to providing legal assistance, he also conducts trainings for adults and professionals about legal protections for survivors of relationship violence.
Ian graduated with a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and an M.A. from the American University School of International Service. While in law school, Ian launched a refugee legal aid organization, ASELER, in Quito, Ecuador, interned for two years at the Tahirih Justice Center providing legal assistance to immigrant women fleeing gender-based violence, and represented women in family and immigration matters as a student attorney for the Women and the Law Clinic. Throughout law school, he held a variety of leadership positions, including: Co-Chair of the Immigrants' Rights Coalition, Staff Writer for The Modern American: Legal Magazine about Diversity and the Law, and Lead Organizer for several delegations of students traveling to post-Katrina New Orleans to provide pro bono legal services.
Before attending law school, Ian helped to found Community Outreach and Advocacy for Refugees (COAR), an Arizona nonprofit organization dedicated to serving locally resettled refugee youth. He also received an International Legal Studies Fellowship to collaborate with Cambodian law students to facilitate "street law" workshops to survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia. Ian worked as an anti-racism consultant, leading and facilitating anti-oppression workshops and trainings, and served for five years on the Multicultural Assessment and Advisory Committee (MAAC) for Amnesty International, USA.
Ian was born in Richmond, Virginia and grew up in Tempe, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Redlands with a self-designed degree, entitled: Structural Oppression: Race, Politics, Human Rights, and the Practice of Freedom.
