Mariah McGill, Ford Foundation Fellow

Mariah McGill is the Ford Foundation fellow at the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeastern University School of Law. Mariah assists with PHRGE's domestically focused programs. In particular, Mariah is working with faculty and administrators on an institute, Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, to be held October 14-16, 2010. The institute will bring together scholars and advocates to address issues faced by immigrant communities including the right to work, the rights to living wages and to just and favorable conditions of work, the right to education and the right to health care, as well as issues of alienage and documentation.

Mariah graduated from Sweet Briar College with a degree in International Affairs in 2002 and received her JD from Northeastern University School of Law in 2009. Mariah's human rights and public interest experience includes legal internships at the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. Mariah is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Vermont and has served as an administrative law judge for the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. Prior to attending law school, Mariah worked as an early childhood educator and affordable housing advocate in rural Vermont. Mariah is particularly interested in protecting and advancing the rights of children.