Liz Evenson serves as senior counsel in the International Justice program at Human Rights Watch. Her research and advocacy centers on the International Criminal Court (ICC), where she monitors the court’s institutional development and conducts advocacy toward the court and its member countries. She also focuses on the ICC’s investigations of the 2007-2008 election-related violence in Kenya and Human Rights Watch’s efforts to encourage domestic prosecutions of serious crimes in Kenya. Evenson previously conducted research on Uganda as a Leonard H. Sandler fellow in the organization’s Africa division. She joined Human Rights Watch in 2006 after two clerkships in United States federal court, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago, the University of Nottingham, and Columbia Law School.