Alesya Vidruk has worked as a lawyer at the NGO Independent Society for Legal Research – presently, the Foundation for Legal Technologies, since 1998. Alesya's major duties at the organization have included: consulting individuals on issues of creation and activities of public associations, representing individuals in courts, organizing and holding educational and analytical seminars on human rights matters. Since 2000 Alesya has assumed the role of a trustee at the organization. She was selected to be the head of the Access to Justice Department in 2003. Alesya graduated from the Belarussian State University law faculty in 1999. As a PILnet International Fellow, Alesya developed a project devoted to the promotion of access to justice in Belarus.