Abiodun Baiyewu is the Country Director at Global Rights Nigeria, from where she directs the organisation’s Natural Resources and Human Rights Program. She has worked with community organizations in Nigeria including the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group, the Center for African Policy and Peace Strategy, and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity. She is an alum of the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., where she was also a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow in the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa Program. In addition she is an accredited mediator, dispute resolution trainer, and an HIV/AIDS youth counselor.