Carla De Ycaza is a Ph.D. candidate in international human rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, focusing on post-conflict transitional justice in Africa, and holds an M.A. in human rights studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in political science and classics from Vassar College. She is a lecturer at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. She also currently serves as Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law.