Eleanor Thompson is a public interest lawyer and founder of Citizens’ Barray, a platform for empowering citizens to drive social change in Sierra Leone. She is also in private legal practice and formerly worked as an Associate at GPKLegal, one of Sierra Leone’s top law firms. As a public interest lawyer, she has helped communities understand and use laws to protect their rights while influencing positive legal reform in Sierra Leone by co-drafting Sierra Leone’s progressive new land laws and securing three landmark judgments from the ECOWAS Court on female genital mutilation; discriminatory loitering laws; and torture in the context of protests. Eleanor holds a BA (Harvard), JD (American University), and Masters in International Human Rights Law (Oxford). She is licensed to practice law in Sierra Leone, New York State and Washington, DC.