Ama Francis
Ama Francis is Climate Displacement Project Strategist at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), developing the organization’s strategy, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council, on expanding legal protection for climate displaced people. Ama is also a non-resident fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, Ama was the 2018-2021 Climate Law Fellow at the Sabin Center, where they developed legal solutions to climate displacement and served on the Advisory Board of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the Steering Committee of the Climigration Network. Ama’s work at the Sabin Center also focused on developing countries, building on prior expertise as a legal consultant to Dominica’s Ministry of Health and Environment. Ama currently sits on the Executive Board of the New York Climate Action Alliance. Ama received their JD from Yale Law School, where they were a student director of Immigration Legal Services. A native Dominican, Ama received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.