Tina M. Foster

Tina Monshipour Foster is the Executive Director of the Volunteer Legal Services Project (VLSP), a non-profit organization that provides civil legal services to low-income clients in Monroe County, NY. Tina is a graduate of Cornell Law School and a long-time civil rights attorney and international human rights advocate for universal access to justice. Over the last two decades, Foster’s work has focused on pro bono initiatives to defend the rights of Muslim minorities who have been unfairly targeted by US national security initiatives, working with the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she co-founded their Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative. In 2006, Foster founded the International Justice Network (IJN), a non-profit organization that provides pro bono assistance to survivors of human rights abuses and their families.