Allison Corkery

Allison is a human rights lawyer passionate about co-designing legal advocacy strategies that can build collective power. With expertise in economic, social, and cultural rights, she brings an important perspective on the structural drivers of informality, exclusion, and inequality.

Prior to joining WIEGO in 2023, Allison worked for the Center for Economic and Social Rights. Serving as the first Director of Strategy and Learning, she was responsible for transforming the organization’s goals into concrete objectives and actionable plans. In this role, she drew on more than a decade of work supporting rights claiming, through innovative research and creative advocacy.

Allison is from Australia and now lives in South Africa. She holds a BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales; an LLM from Columbia Law School; and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from the London School of Economics. She is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.