Johanna Lee is a human rights lawyer focused on promoting migrant workers’ rights and advancing corporate accountability to eliminate child and forced labor in global supply chains. Before joining the team as a staff attorney, Johanna worked with GLJ-ILRF as a Legal Fellow, engaging in legal and policy advocacy efforts to support the organization’s Seafood Campaign, as well as serving as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, in Thailand. Previously, during law school, Johanna engaged in anti-human trafficking efforts through her fellowship with the Human Trafficking Institute and summer internships with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) in Los Angeles and Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW) in Phnom Penh. Johanna also contributed to human rights advocacy projects and immigration cases through Harvard Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, The Ghana Project Clinic, Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Clinic, and an Independent Clinical at the Immigration Center for Women and Children. Johanna holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a M.A. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), and an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College.
johannalee@globallaborjustice.org