Women Building the Future of Justice Dashboard

Lady Justice Initiative × Justice Technology Association
Global Dashboard
Women Building the
Future of Justice
Leaders catalyzing justice through AI and other tech, a collaboration of Lady Justice Initiative and Justice Tech Association.
212
Leaders Profiled
33
Countries
108
Justice Tech
Legal Aid and Nonprofit Tech
12
Courts and Public Sector
23
Law Schools and Academia
33
Ecosystem Support

Find women-led legal solutions and leading justice innovation

Looking for an expert or a women-led solution or service? Search the leaders on this dashboard.*

*Inclusion on this dashboard does not constitute an endorsement by Lady Justice Initiative of any individual, organization, product or service. This dashboard is not a legal referral service or legal advice.

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Kate Briscoe
📍 Brighton, United Kingdom
Co-founder & CEO
LegalBeagles Group Ltd 🔗
Kate founded LegalBeagles.info in 2007, while training in law. This website now helps 2.5M consumers/SME's p/a freely harnessing peer reviewed crowd solving via 50 expert volunteers.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Civil Law Europe
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Joanne Sprague
📍 Oakland, CA, USA
Sr Director, Head of Everlaw for Good
Everlaw 🔗
Joanne is working to help level the playing field for justice by running Everlaw for Good, an industry-leading pro bono program providing free and discounted access to the Everlaw ediscovery platform to nonprofits, pro bono teams, investigative journalists and educators. She is also working to increase awareness of the justice gap among non-legal audiences, and to encourage other legal tech companies to offer their services to legal nonprofits at free and discounted rates.
Corporate A2J Leader Access to Justice Civil LawPro Bono North America
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Aubrie Souza
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Principal Court Management Consultant
National Center for State Courts 🔗
Aubrie's work helps state courts leverage technology to make systems more navigable and information more accessible for all court users. She is systems thinker who can look at a lengthy and complicated process and swiftly identify where technology can play a role and where the underlying systems must be improved first. Aubrie is able to work with diverse court stakeholders and justice system partners to accomplish meaningful and sustainable change, rather than focusing on quick fixes.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology North America
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Norchen Mezni
📍 Tunis, Tunisia
Founder & CEO
E-Tafakna 🔗
Norchen founded E-Tafakna.com to break down the barriers that prevent people from accessing justice — using technology to turn complex legal processes into simple, affordable digital solutions.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Family LawBusiness & Entrepreneurs Middle East & North Africa
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Lieke Beelen
📍 The Hague, Netherlands
Founder & CEO
Visual Contracts 🔗
Lieke helps individuals and business navigate contract design throughout the employment law journey through GenAI assisted proactive contract design, e.g., for immigrant workers. Her platform connects commercial and public sector/legal aid in the immigrant employment rights journey with contracts.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law Immigration Europe
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Ebru Metin
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
Doctoral Researcher, Coordinator
Tallinn University of Technology, TalTech Legal Lab 🔗
Ebru is transforming justice through tech by combining AI, legal design, and sustainability-driven innovation to make complex legal systems more accessible, inclusive, and actionable. I also develop AI-assisted research prototypes that translate legal complexity into practical tools, increasing the real-world impact of my work and expanding access to justice.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportLaw School Clinic or Center Legal Innovation Europe
AS
Aliza Shatzman
📍 Ambler, PA, USA
Founder & President
The Legal Accountability Project 🔗
Aliza's Legal Accountability Project maintains a nationwide Clerkships Database (AKA “Glassdoor for Judges”), a justice tech tool, that democratizes judicial clerkship information and opportunities for law students and recent grads by collecting post-clerkship reviews from former judicial law clerks nationwide and providing them to applicants (students and recent graduates) nationwide in an easily accessible format for a small fee of just $50 per year to subscribe. LAP’s Database, containing over 2,000 candid clerkship reviews about more than 1,200 judges nationwide, has revolutionized judicial clerkship hiring, creating transparency and accountability in the judiciary where before there was none: LAP has already served over 3,000 law students and recent graduates with candid clerkship information about great bosses to apply to and abusive judges to avoid in less than 2 years. LAP’s Database is a vector for social change: this third-party solution to the lack of accountability in the judiciary (the federal judiciary is exempt from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and all federal anti-discrimination laws) fills the gap for law schools that have been unable or unwilling to collect and disseminate candid information about judges as employers for students, and for a judiciary that’s unable or unwilling to hold judges accountable for their workplace conduct. It’s also created accountability through transparency: there’s nothing abusive judges and bad bosses hate more than negative feedback they cannot see or retaliate against clerks for sharing–but knowing their workplace conduct is on display for thousands of applicants each year has forced judges to change their behavior and has forced judiciary-level policy change as well.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Court & Justice Sector Technology Courts & JudiciaryEmployment North America
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Fatima Arifeen
📍 Sydney, Australia
Founder & CEO
Voltaire Legal 🔗
Fatima connects legal teams, pro bono volunteers, and not-for-profits in a single platform, streamlining workflows and reducing administrative barriers. It aims to increase access to justice by empowering legal teams and professionals with human-centred technology that maximises their social impact.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology Pro Bono Global
AO
Ashley Oborn
📍 Porter, TX, USA
Director of Data Analytics
Lone Star Legal Aid 🔗
Ashley led the in house development of 3 AI Chatbots: Juris (curated legal research tool for staff), LSLAsks (admin support assistant for internal workplace information), and NAVI (public facing legal info, resources, referral hub for texans that is all vetted by subject matter experts). She is a thought leader and contributes her expertise to AI initiatives at other institutions including Stanford and MIT research labs, and the State Bar of Texas Technology Committee in the AI policy subcommittee.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to Law Civil Law North America
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Sarah June Benjamin Esq.
📍 San Francisco Bay Area California, USA
CEO & Attorney
Peace IQ 🔗
Sarah is transforming justice by shifting the legal paradigm from costly litigation to intelligent conflict prevention, using machine learning, wisdom traditions of justice, and peace data to give organizations the tools to turn everyday decisions that lead to conflict into decisions that lead to cooperation. Drawing on her lived experience as a refugee from the Liberian Civil War and a Baha'i refugee from Iran, she coined the term "peace intelligence," a framework that helps institutions identify and defuse the conditions that produce disputes, grievances, and legal exposure before they ever reach a courtroom and built Peace IQ a platform that equips leaders with predictive analytics and conflict resolution tools that make peace not just an aspiration but a measurable and legally protective outcome.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawEco-system Support Family LawImmigration Global
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Zara Tajwar
📍 Peshawar, Pakistan
CEO
Lawomen 🔗
Zara is connecting women victims of human rights violations with female lawyers through online platform. Women can access legal advice without leaving their homes.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Family LawGender-Based ViolenceEmployment Asia & the Pacific
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Liz Federowicz
📍 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Head of Legal
First Tech Inc. 🔗
Liz is redefining the intersection of law and technology as the Head of Legal on the founding team of First. By modernizing and democratizing the prenuptial agreement process, First is moving prenups out of the luxury category and into the hands of the modern couple. First has achieved a significant milestone in legal agency: half of the platform’s agreements are now initiated by women. This shift transforms the prenup from a document women simply sign into a strategic tool they proactively use to secure their financial futures.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
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Prachi Shrivastava
📍 Noida, India
Platform architect
Vakil Vetted 🔗
Prachi helps small businesses by reducing the guesswork in cost, quality, and expected outcomes involved in engaging a lawyer.
Corporate A2J Leader Access to JusticeAccess to Law Business & Entrepreneurs Asia & the Pacific
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Jenny Rudd
📍 Tauranga, New Zealand
Founder & CEO
Dispute Buddy 🔗
Jenny helps victims of abuse to turn messy text message threads into lawyer-ready document.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawDispute Resolution Family LawCriminal Justice Global
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Nadja Hatem
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
CEO
Kliently 🔗
Nadja Hatem enables legal services through the Kliently platform (app) where lawyers can advice and hired in multiple languages.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law Europe
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Bridgette Carr
📍 Ann Arbor, USA
Director AI Law and Policy Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School 🔗
Bridgette co-founded the AI Law & Policy Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, an innovative legal education model where student teams partner with courts, legal aid providers, and community organizations to design and deploy responsible AI tools that expand access to justice.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center North America
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Amy J. Schmitz
📍 Columbus, OH, USA
Director, JusticeTech
JusticeTech @ The Ohio State University 🔗
Amy equips students in her JusticeTech Practicum to design, build and test technologies to help self-represented litigants in areas such as housing, education and other access to justice areas.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute ResolutionJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center Family Law North America
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Pip Wilson
📍 London, United Kingdom
Co-founder & CEO
Amicable 🔗
Pip is transforming justice by using technology to modernise how separation is resolved – moving couples away from costly, adversarial court processes towards a fair, digitally-enabled, human-centred model. Through amicable, she’s widening access to legal support while reducing conflict and pressure on the family courts.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute Resolution Family Law Europe
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Sarah Mauet
📍 Tucson, USA
Director of System & Technology Design & Professor of Practice
Innovation for Justice, University of Arizona College of Law and University of Utah School of Business 🔗
Sarah uses innovative teaching, community-engaged research, and court and legal service provider partnerships to equip graduate students with interdisciplinary skills to design, test, and implement tech tools that directly address access to justice barriers faced by self-represented litigants. Her work bridges the traditional gap between legal theory and real-world problem-solving, ensuring that technology in the legal sector is designed with users, not just for them.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyLaw School Clinic or Center North America
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Erica Nelson
📍 Madison, WI, USA
Executive Director
LIFT Wisconsin 🔗
Erica leads a justice tech nonprofit, the first of its kind in the country, that aggregates the data from 4 different state-operated agencies and empowers individuals facing civil legal issues (like an eviction record that needs to be cleared or a driver's license that needs to be reinstated) to navigate our court system. Erica is a visionary who has grown LIFT Wisconsin through non-traditional funding and expanded services through innovative partnerships - her outside-the-box thinking is what has made the organization sustainable.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute Resolution Civil LawCriminal Justice North America
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Kanchan Gupta
📍 Bengaluru, India
Co-Founder
CADRE ODR 🔗
Kanchan founded CADRE ODR to address one of justice’s biggest gaps: accessibility. By designing digital-first dispute resolution processes that are structured, transparent, and scalable, she is helping institutions handle high volumes efficiently while enabling individuals to resolve conflicts without prohibitive cost, delay, or complexity. By combining digital workflows, institutional partnerships, and human-centered design, she is reducing backlog, lowering costs, and bringing credible dispute resolution to citizens who would otherwise be excluded from formal systems.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Dispute Resolution Asia & the Pacific
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Natasha de Koker
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Co-Founder
JUSTICE4.0 🔗
Natasha is making access to legal advice affordable, accessible and secure though AI.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawJustice Policy & Governance Business & EntrepreneursCivil LawEmployment Europe
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Jennifer Spradling
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
Co-Founder
Free Will 🔗
Jennifer is making estate planning and charitable donation planning accessible through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Trusts & Estates North America
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Grace Gichanga
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa
Founder
Wasafiri Foundation (previously Founder of Luma Law)
Grace founded a justice tech that promoted legal literacy through chatbots.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice ImmigrationEmployment Sub-Saharan Africa
NC
Nádia Crujeira da Costa
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
Digital Transformation Advisor to the Ministry of Justice
Portuguese Ministry of Justice 🔗
Nadia is responsible for the digital transformation in Justice in Portugal, which means I am aiming at simplifying the life of individuals and justice skateholders (judges, policemakers, criminal investigation agencies, among others) through the use of new systems and platforms and advocating of the use of those in connection with responsible AI.
Public Sector AI Leader Justice Policy & Governance Europe
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Jessica Frank
📍 Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
Director of Justice Initiatives
Free Law Project 🔗
Jessica is transforming justice through technology by leading the design and national implementation of open-source, AI-powered tools—including the Litigant Portal and next-generation eFiling systems—that help people navigate courts without lawyers. Drawing on more than fifteen years at the intersection of legal practice and technology, she builds user-centered systems that reduce errors, remove barriers, and shift how courts engage with the public at scale.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support Pro Bono North America
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Kisha A Brown
📍 College Park, MD, USA
Founder & CEO
Justis Connection 🔗
Kisha is transforming justice through technology by building tools and platforms that make the legal system easier to understand and easier to access for Black communities. I'm focused on creating pathways to trusted lawyers, practical guidance, and scalable legal support that meet people where they are.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology North America
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Laura Safdie
📍 California, USA
Head of Innovation, Legal
Thomson Reuters. 🔗
Laura leads Thomson Reuters AI for Justice initiative, equipping legal aid organizations nationwide with professional-grade AI tools at a highly subsidized rate. These tools have helped attorneys across certain LSOs serve up to 50% more clients and process critical filings 90% faster. Through this work, legal teams are accelerating protection orders, eviction defenses, and other urgent legal interventions that directly impact domestic violence survivors, tenants, and underserved communities. A few examples of impact on access-to-justice outcomes one year into the Thomson Reuters AI for Justice program that Laura leads: Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino - their attorneys report saving 8–15 hours per week via AI adoption, which has allowed them to represent 2,000 more clients this year and to double the people served through their legal aid hotline each day. The Innocence Center, which is dedicated to freeing innocent people from prison, reported that CoCounsel cut the time to prepare exoneration petitions in half, from one year to six months, and doubled the number of new cases reviewed each month. Using CoCounsel, the Veterans Legal Institute can now prepare landlord-tenant and family law motions in minutes instead of hours. The AI for Justice initiative includes an incubator with deeply embedded partnerships with a select diverse group of legal aid providers, public defenders, and pro bono initiatives, to identify, document, and amplify high-impact legal aid AI use cases. Translating learnings from early adopters to the broader legal aid community is a critical (and under-discussed) part of closing the justice gap.
Corporate A2J Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Civil LawGender-Based Violence Global
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Katie Kalvoda
📍 San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Founder
Advance OC 🔗
Katie has pioneered a data-driven approach to measure how social determinants of justice shape legal outcomes—integrating case data with social and economic risk factors. By revealing the link between systemic barriers and case results, she is advancing a critical conversation on access to justice and building predictive mapping tools to help close disparities in legal outcomes.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
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Grace Thomson
📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
AI Policy Clinics Director
Center for AI & Digital Policy CAIDP 🔗
Dr. Grace Thomson advocates for the implementation of global AI governance frameworks that promote fundamental rights, democratic values, and the rule of law in the adoption of AI. She leads a global policy education program that has trained 1,900 policy leaders across 130 countries since 2021. More than 65% of trained policy leaders are women. Grace is the Assistant Editor of the CAIDP Index, the most comprehensive benchmark assessment of national policies across 90 countries. As a Policy Fellow, she has advised bodies like the G7, UNESCO, the African Union, the UK Parliament, the UK Home Office, and the UK Prime Minister on policies and legal frameworks to ensure human-rights-impacting technologies are governed. As an advisor to the UNESCO Global CSO & Academic Network and AI Safety UAE, she develops CSOs' capacity to hold tech firms accountable and transparent, with a focus on contestability and remediation.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance Global
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Natalia Prada
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Technology Innovation & Data Manager
Greater Boston Legal Services 🔗
Natalia is improving the delivery of justice by building integrated data and technology systems within legal aid, connecting intake, case management, and reporting into one transparent ecosystem. Her work helps legal services organizations use real-time data to allocate resources more equitably, reduce inefficiencies, and expand access to justice for underserved communities.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
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Melina Gisler
📍 London, United Kingdom
Founder
Edenreach 🔗
Melina is pioneering Justice Finance to expand access to justice, unlocking mission-aligned capital for legal cases with measurable social and environmental impact. Through rigorous, technology-enabled evaluation and trusted impact reporting, Edenreach is building the infrastructure needed to close the global justice gap.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology Civil Law Europe
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Amanda Brown
📍 New Orleans, LA, USA
Executive Director
Lagniappe Law Lab 🔗
Amanda is transforming justice through technology by building Louisiana's statewide civil justice infrastructure around a simple but powerful framework: Inform. Empower. Connect. As Founder of Lagniappe Law Lab, she architects shared platforms and systems that enable legal aid organizations across the state to reach hundreds of thousands of underserved residents — moving people seamlessly from legal information to self-help resources to human connection with the right advocate.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeDispute Resolution North America
MS
Maria Shutova
📍 Yerevan, Armenia
Co-founder & Product Manager
Judge AI 🔗
Maria is building legal ontology for normative AI to expand access to law and improves justice delivery.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute ResolutionJustice Policy & Governance Global
HR
Holly Rooney
📍 London, United Kingdom
Founder & CEO
Yerty 🔗
Hollie helps UK workers understand and navigate workplace disputes through an access to justice platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Employment Europe
DP
Disha Puri
📍 New Delhi, India
Product Owner
Overrule.AI 🔗
As a Supreme Court practitioner and Product Owner at Overrule. AI, Disha is building AI-powered tools that help lawyers in the Supreme Court of India streamline legal drafting, research and translation, making high-quality legal work faster and more accessible. Her work bridges legal practice and technology to improve efficiency and access to justice.
Corporate A2J Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Asia & the Pacific
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Sonja Ebron
📍 Durham, USA
Co-founder & CEO
Courtroom5 🔗
As CEO of Courtroom5, Sonja helps create and support successful pro se litigants. Courtroom5’s LAW Accelerator is the only platform designed for laypeople to practice law for themselves.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Civil Law North America
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Larissa Pedroso
📍 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Innovation Manager
Rio de Janeiro State Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPRJ) 🔗
As Innovation Manager at the Rio de Janeiro State Public Prosecutor’s Office, Larissa Pedroso leads innovation through Inova_MPRJ, the institution’s innovation lab, advancing AI and data-driven solutions that strengthen justice delivery. She bridges prosecutors, technical teams and partners to turn promising prototypes into solutions that can be adopted and scaled across the institution.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & Governance Latin America & Caribbean
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Ariel Clemmer
📍 Concord, New Hampshire, USA
Executive Director
603 Legal Aid 🔗
Ariel is transforming justice through tech by building practical, community-focused solutions that remove barriers to high-quality, free legal help. From launching a Free Legal Kiosk initiative at the Center for Social Justice to deploying AI-driven tools at 603 Legal Aid—including a closed-loop chatbot on its forthcoming website and technology-enabled pro bono systems—Ariel is using innovation to expand access, streamline delivery, and reach people who would otherwise go without legal support.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Family LawCivil LawGender-Based Violence North America
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Shellie Reid
📍 Ypsilanti, USA
Manager
Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) 🔗
Shellie helps legal services organizations build their cpacity to harness technology to improve legal solutions.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
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Dorra Harrar
📍 Tunis, Tunisia
Legal design expert practionner
LegalD 🔗
Dorra helps organizations turn legal complexity into clear, actionable strategic levers using legal design.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system SupportCourt & Justice Sector Technology Family LawBusiness & Entrepreneurs Middle East & North Africa
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Bridget M. McCormack
📍 USA
President & CEO
American Arbitration Association 🔗
Bridget is harnessing AI to pioneer innovations in dispute resolution. She leads initiatives to prevent, mitigate, and resolve disputes fairly and efficiently.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Global
DD
Diana Didia
📍 USA
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer
American Arbitration Association 🔗
Diana is democratizing dispute resolution through innovation and tech.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Global
NS
Noella Sudbury
📍 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Founder & CEO
Rasa Legal 🔗
Noella Sudbury is transforming access to justice by using technology to help people clear their criminal records and overcome the barriers that prevent them from accessing housing, employment, and education. Through Rasa, she is scaling expungement services in a way that makes life-changing legal relief faster, more affordable, and accessible to thousands who would otherwise be left behind.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Criminal Justice North America
BK
Brienne Kordis
📍 Baltimore, MD, USA
Tech Lead
Civil Justice, Inc. 🔗
Brienne is spearheading the transformation of Justice Passport — a platform connecting litigants with critical legal resources — into a fully-coded, scalable solution that will expand access to justice for thousands. Over the past year, she has simultaneously architected the project roadmap, led a cross-functional team of developers and data experts, and driven every stage of execution from vision to deployment.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
SJ
Stacy Jane
📍 Tucson, USA
Director, Innovation for Justice
Innovation for Justice, University of AZ & University of UT 🔗
An innovative educator and advocate, Stacy works to ensure underrepresented communities have meaningful access to civil legal services—leading with boldness, compassion, and a commitment to real change.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyLaw School Clinic or Center North America
MM
Maya Markovich
📍 Oakland, CA, USA
Vice President at AAA-ICDR Institute, Executive Director at Justice Tech Association
AAA-ICDR Institute, Justice Tech Association 🔗
Maya is a recognized legal tech visionary dedicated to transforming dispute resolution and expanding access to justice. As co-founder of the Justice Technology Association and now VP of the AAA-ICDR Institute, she champions entrepreneurship in ADR and builds partnerships that create systemic change in how people access legal services.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute ResolutionJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support Business & EntrepreneursCourts & Judiciary North America
MD
Martha De La Roche
📍 London, United Kingdom
Insights & Engagement Director
Access to Justice Foundation 🔗
Martha drives partnerships and stakeholder engagement at the Access to Justice Foundation, the UK's only national charity focused on funding free legal advice. She founded the Network for Justice (formerly the Litigant in Person Network) to connect, coordinate, and support collaboration across the justice community, helping frontline organizations share scalable solutions and work more effectively together to close the access to justice gap.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & Governance Civil Law Europe
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Erin Levine
📍 Alameda, CA, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
Hello Divorce 🔗
Erin is a Certified Family Law Specialist, mediator, founder/CEO of Hello Divorce, and co-founder of the Justice Technology Association. Frustrated by the inefficient and adversarial divorce industry, she set out to transform how people navigate divorce by automating court bureaucracy and integrating expert support.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Family Law North America
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Kalina Leopold Oak
📍 Detroit, MI, USA
Chief Operating Officer
Justice Technology Association 🔗
Kalina is dedicated to expanding access to justice through technology and innovation. As volunteer Chief Operating Officer at the Justice Technology Association, she builds the infrastructure that supports justice tech entrepreneurs and connects the ecosystem - from configuring membership systems and crafting content strategy to managing partnerships across the US and internationally. With deep experience in strategic growth and operations, she brings both vision and get-it-done energy to mission-driven work that democratizes justice.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyEco-system Support Business & EntrepreneursLegal Innovation Global
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Megan Vizzini
📍 Florida, USA
Chief Growth Officer
Pro Bono Net 🔗
Megan leads Pro Bono Net’s Accessible Legal Forms strategy, including the nationally-recognized LawHelp Interactive program and new innovations in guided interviews, screening tools, and wraparound support for self‑represented litigants. With a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law and a background in growing innovative and sustainable tech products, Megan builds partnerships with courts, legal nonprofits, and community organizations that use these tools to make justice simpler, fairer, and more accessible for everyone.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyEco-system Support Civil LawImmigrationPro Bono North America
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Sandra Sandoval
📍 St. Petersburg, FLA, USA
Senior Product Manager
Justicia Lab 🔗
Sandra leads product strategy and partnerships for award‑winning justice tech programs, including Citizenshipworks, a free online resource that has made applying for citizenship safer, simpler, and more affordable for tens of thousands of people over the past 15 years. A graduate of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse and a 2023 American Legal Technology Award winner, Sandra builds impactful tech-enabled programs and partnerships that bring free, high‑quality legal resources to immigrants nationwide.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to LawEco-system Support Immigration North America
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Claire Robinson
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
Chief Product Officer
Upsolve 🔗
Claire helps people erase debt by leading Upsolve through its AI expansion, doubling filings and passing 1 billion in debt erased.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Bankruptcy North America
TD
Tracy DeTomasi
📍 Chicago, IL, USA
CEO
Callisto 🔗
Tracy empowers survivors of sexual violence through a national tech for good nonprofit that developed a cutting-edge platform, which supports them through encrypted technology allows them to safely, securely, and confidentially find others who have been harmed by the same person without having to report or publicly disclose.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to Law Gender-Based Violence North America
DS
Dr. Sarah Stephens
📍 England, United Kingdom
Smart Justice 🔗
Sarah is pioneering the use of AI and mobile technology to close the justice gap for underserved communities, from building Dada Wakili—a mobile legal support platform for women in Tanzania—to shaping digital justice policy as a member of the UK Ministry of Justice Online Procedure Rule Committee. Her work bridges frontline legal empowerment in East Africa with cutting-edge legal tech innovation in England and Wales, proving that technology can make justice more accessible wherever it's needed most.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Trusts & EstatesGender-Based Violence Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dr. Natalie Byrom
📍 London, United Kingdom
Honorary Research Fellow
UCL
Dr. Byrom is a leading justice innovation expert, founder of the Justice Lab, and author of the HMCS Data Strategy.
Eco-system Leader Access to Justice Europe
KB
Kweyakie Blebo
📍 Accra, Ghana
Co-Founder & Programs Director
Because She Can 🔗
Kweyakie supports women in tech fluency and entrepreneurship including justice related entrepreneurship.
Eco-system Leader Eco-system Support Sub-Saharan Africa
AM
Alexandra Mysoor
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
CEO
Alix 🔗
Alexandra helps families with settlements of estates and trusts through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Trusts & Estates North America
IE
Izabela Engel
📍 Baltimore, MD, USA
Co-Founder & Programs Director
Pro Se Quitas 🔗
Izabela leverages AI to providing access to guidance for pro se litigants and organizations.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
NN
Nikole Nelson
📍 Anchorage, AK, USA
Executive Director
Frontline Justice 🔗
Nikole leads a movement to mobilize and equip trusted community advocates to become frontline legal helpers—justice workers. Her work includes supporting this community through Frontline's pioneering Groundwork platform.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
SB
Sophia Bhatti
📍 London, United Kingdom
Chair AI in Justice
Justice 🔗
Sophia helps advance fair justice in the UK though advocacy for laws, policies, practices, including responsible use of AI and other technology in the justice sector.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to Law Europe
MH
Margaret Hagan
📍 Palo Alto, CA, USA
Director
Stanford Legal Design Lab 🔗
Professor Hagan is a justice innovation pioneer and field builder. She researches, designs, and develops new ways to make the US civil justice system work better for people. This includes exploring new AI tools, forms and paper notices, websites, in-person services, courthouse design, regulation and policies, and coalition-building.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportLaw School Clinic or Center North America
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Nora Al Haider
📍 Palo Alto, CA, USA
Assistant Director
Stanford Legal Design Lab 🔗
Professor Haidar is a justice innovation pioneer who has created social media bots that provide legal advice to analysis of the legal needs of users on online platforms. Her legal design projects and interactive art installations have been spotlighted at courts, bar associations, legal organizations and in law schools around the world.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportLaw School Clinic or Center North America
KS
Kristen Sonday
📍 Chicago, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
Palladin 🔗
Kirsten helps bring legal solutions to more people by empowering teams to do more pro bono efficiently.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Pro Bono North America
OA
Oksanna Abrahamyan
📍 Yerevan, Armenia
Deputy Minister of Justice
Ministry of Justice
Deputy Minister Abrahamyan helps improve justice delivery in Armenia through AI and other digital initiatives.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Europe
FO
Funkola Odeleye
📍 Lagos, Nigeria
Co-Founder & CEO
DIY Law 🔗
Through DIYLaw, Funkola is transforming justice in Nigeria by leveraging technology to democratize access to legal services, making them more affordable, efficient, and accessible for individuals and small businesses. As a pioneer in the Nigerian legal-tech sector, DIYLaw addresses the high cost and complexity of legal services through automation and digital resources.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Business & Entrepreneurs Sub-Saharan Africa
HM
Hannah McKinlay
📍 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Co-Founder
Clara Technologies 🔗
Hannah helps businesses and entrepreneurs access legal support through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Global
JC
Judy Chang
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
Co-Founder & CLO
Lawfully 🔗
Judy helps people access immigration solutions through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration North America
DA
Dr. Amy Salyzyn
📍 Ottawa, Canada
Professor of Law
University of Ottawa
Dr. Amy Salyzyn is an expert in the area of legal ethics, lawyer regulation, the use of technology in the delivery of legal services and access to justice. Her recent research includes ethical use of technology in the Canadian justice system and ways technology that can facilitate access to justice for Ontarians.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportLaw School Clinic or Center North America
RF
Renee Fry
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Founder & CEO
Gentreo 🔗
Renee supports businesses helping employees, clients and members an easy and affordable estate planning solutions through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Trusts & Estates North America
ER
Elizabeth Richardson
📍 Fayetteville, AK, USA
Founder
Dispatch Justice 🔗
Elizabeth helps people connect via a platform to a live attorney who can offer real-time advocacy during contact with police and provide intervention to ensure your rights are not violated.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Criminal Justice North America
NM
Nancy Meyers
📍 Chambersburg, PA, USA
Founder
Advocord 🔗
Nancy helps people life advocates, guardians, conservators, POAs and other advocates to serve their dependents with care and compassion and ease through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
KG
Kari Gerstheimer
📍 Nalisworth, England, United Kingdom
CEO & Founder
Access Social Care 🔗
Kim helps people access legal and other social care through a platform.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Europe
AN
Anna Naidis
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
Co-Founder, CPO, COO
Aparti 🔗
Anna supports family law practitioners in delivering better services through an AI-powered platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
SC
Susan Choe
📍 Columbus, OH, USA
Executive Director
Ohio Legal Help 🔗
Susan is a pioneer in harnessing tech to improve legal aid.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
TF
Tara Faquir
📍 Atlanta, USA
Co-Founder & COO
Trustate 🔗
Tara makes trusts and estates solutions more accessbile through a platform supporting practitioners in the field.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Trusts & Estates North America
SL
Sol Lee
📍 New York, NY, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
Neptune 🔗
Sol support couples in accessing legal solutions for life matters including pre-nups and more.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
SI
Sara Itucas
📍 Seattle, WA, USA
Chief Partnerships Officer
Casium 🔗
Sara supports entrepreneurs and businesses in accessing legal support for talent related immigration needs through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration Global
LD
Leah Del Percio
📍 Tampa, Fla, USA
Founder & CEO
Trustate 🔗
Leah makes trusts and estates solutions more accessbile through a platform supporting practitioners in the field.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Trusts & Estates North America
ES
Ellen Samuel
📍 Chicago, USA
COO
Just-tech 🔗
Ellen helps expand access to legal solutions and supports justice delivery through her leadership of a tech focused nonprofit supporting providers.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Court & Justice Sector TechnologyAccess to Justice North America
SD
Sina Dorr
📍 Cologne, Germany
Judge
Richterin am Oberlandesgericht
Judge Dorr is a judicial innovation leader and regularly contributes thought leadership to advance the field.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Europe
FM
Floretta Mayerson
📍 Mexico City, Mexico
Co-Founder & CEO
Violetta 🔗
Floretta is providing accessible resources to help all people create relationships free of gender-based violence, using cutting-edge, highly scalable technologies.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to LawAccess to Justice Gender-Based Violence Latin America & Caribbean
DS
Danae Shell
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Founder & CEO
Valla 🔗
Danae is providing people with access to legal support for employment matters through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Employment Europe
EB
Elizabeth Billingsley Baldwin
📍 Hookwood, England, United Kingdom
Founder
Proof Puzzle 🔗
Elizabeth is helping survivors document abuse and protect their children in court through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Europe
TA
Tosin Akinbode Osho
📍 Abuja, Nigeria
Co-Founder
Safe Space Initiative & Think Help Restore Media 🔗
Tosin is innovating tech solutions to help women and girls break free, find shelter and recover from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence trafficking, and other types and other types of exploitation.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Sub-Saharan Africa
OE
Osasumwen Edobar
📍 Abuja, Nigeria
Director People & Partnerships
Think, Help, Restore Media 🔗
Osasumwen is innovating tech-based solutions to help women and girls break free, find shelter and recover from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence trafficking, and other types and other types of exploitation.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Sub-Saharan Africa
JR
Julia Rogers
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Founder & CEO
Hello Prenup 🔗
Julia is making prenuptial agreements affordable, approachable, and accessible to all couples.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
BL
Brea Lowenberger
📍 Saskatoon, Canada
Co-Founder & Director
CREATE Justice 🔗
Brea leads CREATE Justice Clinic which works to create a more accessible justice system. Its in-house lab innovated approaches to making justice more accessible.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeLaw School Clinic or Center North America
KB
Kim Belizaire
📍 New York, NY, USA
Executive Director
Good Call NYC 🔗
Kim helps empower marginalized communities and creates systemic transformation by using technology and community organizing to provide immediate access to legal support through a 24/7 tech enabled hotline.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to Law Criminal Justice North America
AP
Anjana Prasad
📍 Seattle, WA, USA
Founder & CEO
Clearbox 🔗
Anjana helps lawful permanent residents (green card holders) apply for U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration North America
DF
Dr. Francine Ryan
📍 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Director
Open Justice Center 🔗
Dr. Ryan leads pioneering initiatives leveraging AI and other tech for public legal education and delivery of legal support through a law school clinic.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to Law Europe
MC
Maya Chebeane
📍 Tunis, Tunisia
Co-founder
JuriDoc 🔗
Maria is helping businesses access legal solutions through an online platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Middle East & North Africa
SL
Samantha Lawrence
📍 British Columbia, Canada
Executive Director
Civil Dispute Resolution Tribunal 🔗
Samantha supports resolution of civil disputes through a pioneering online dispute resolution platform.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Access to JusticeDispute Resolution North America
LB
Linda Bonyo
📍 Nairobi, Kenya
Founder
Lawyers Hub 🔗
Linda is catalyzing access to justice and law through AI and other technology through a community providing education, entrepreneurship support, and networks and through policy leadership.
Eco-system Leader Eco-system Support Sub-Saharan Africa
MB
Maria Beydeva
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
Founder & Director
Laws.Africa & Africa.LII 🔗
Mariya is making laws of African countries available to all.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to LawAccess to Justice Sub-Saharan Africa
ME
Margret Einarssdottir
📍 Kópavogur, Iceland
Founder & CEO
Justikal 🔗
Margret is making court proceedings faster, more convenient and secure through a platform that manages documents in a trusted & secure way by using eIDAS.compliant trust services.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Court & Justice Sector Technology Europe
JI
Judge Isabella Ferrari
📍 Rio de Janero, Brazil
Judge
Tribunal Regional Federal
Judge Ferrari is a global leader in pioneering AI in the judiciary to improve and speed the delivery of justice.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & Governance Latin America & Caribbean
SK
Shelly Kurtz
📍 Washington State, USA
Co Founder
Guardify 🔗
Shelly is helping making digital evidence safe and secure in cases involving children. Guardify features include encrypted downloads, editing tools for video and audio redaction and automatic transcription trained for child voices and common language spoken in abuse cases.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
SB
Samya Badouraly
📍 Paris, France
Founder & CEO
Caarl 🔗
Samya is making legal and administrative support more accessible to businesses and entrepreneurs through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Europe
MO
Mansi Omar
📍 Gurugram, Haryana, India
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Office
Jupitice 🔗
Mansi is making justice more accessible through a platform providing digital instructure for justice and "justice as a service."
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Asia & the Pacific
AS
Abby Schneiderman
📍 Washington, DC, USA
Founder (recently exited)
Everplans 🔗
Abby founded and led Everplans a life and legacy planning company dedicated to transforming the way people get their families organized.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
CZ
Carmen Zabarauckas
📍 Vancouver, Canada
CEO
Justice Education Society 🔗
Carmen leads an organization focused on empowering individuals globally to access justice through legal education and digital innovation.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
CV
Coline Vuillerment
📍 Paris, France
Founder & CEO
Neo-Justice 🔗
Coline is making simple legal solutions available to people and business through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Europe
BS
Basma Sadani
📍 Paris, France
Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer
Deplano 🔗
Basma making legal services accessible to people through an online marketplace.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Europe
LH
Lisa Hochstein
📍 Miami, FLA, USA
CEO
Splitwell 🔗
Lisa is making legal support for divorce and prenups more accessible.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
JT
Johanna Topolla
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Co-founder
Lakihelppi 🔗
Johanna is making legal services more accessible to people and business through a personal legal assistance platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Europe
KR
Kateriina Ruuskanen
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Co-founder
Lakihelppi 🔗
Kateriina is making legal services more accessible to people and business through a personal legal assistance platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Europe
KA
Krista Andrews
📍 Fargo, ND, USA
Co-Founder
Partus 🔗
Krista is streamlining legal support for divorce through an online platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
KS
Kritika Sethi
📍 Mumbai, India
Co-Founder
Wevaad 🔗
Kritika is helping individuals and businesses resolve their legal disputes through online dispute resolution.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Dispute Resolution Asia & the Pacific
CR
Caroline Rieke
📍 Jakarta, Indonesia
Co-Founder
Kontrak Hukum 🔗
Caroline is helping micro and small businesses access legal solutions through a smart platform that provides trusted, affordable and straightforward legal solutions.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Asia & the Pacific
CB
Claire Bodle
📍 New Zealand
Co-Founder
On Your Terms 🔗
Claire is making legal support available to businesses by providing affordable customized online legal documents.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Asia & the Pacific
DC
Diane Collie
📍 New Zealand
Co-Founder
On Your Terms 🔗
Diane is making legal support available to businesses by providing affordable customized online legal documents.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Asia & the Pacific
NF
Natalie Fennell
📍 New Zealand
Co Founder
On Your Terms 🔗
Natalie is making legal support available to businesses by providing affordable customized online legal documents.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Asia & the Pacific
RJ
Renee Jackson
📍 Dover, NH, USA
Founder & CEO
DysputeAI 🔗
Renee is transforming the costly, complex, and time-consuming process of traditional mediation and working to empower everyone—individuals, businesses, law firms, and mediation providers—to settle conflicts quickly, affordably, and on their own schedule using the power of Adri, an AI Mediator.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Dispute Resolution North America
SG
Scheree Gilchrist
📍 Raleigh, NC, USA
Chief Innovation Officer
Legal Aid of North Carolina 🔗
Through bold vision and a commitment to innovation, Sheree Gilchrist is transforming how legal services are designed and delivered in the United States. By integrating technology and human-centered design, she is helping build a justice system that works for everyone.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Civil Law North America
KC
Kayee Cheung
📍 London, United Kingdom
Co-Founder
Edenreach 🔗
Kayee is pioneering Justice Finance to expand access to justice, unlocking mission-aligned capital for legal cases with measurable social and environmental impact. Through rigorous, technology-enabled evaluation and trusted impact reporting, Edenreach is building the infrastructure needed to close the global justice gap.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Civil Law Europe
DM
Devshi Mehrota
📍 Irvine, CA, USA
CEO
JusticeText 🔗
Devshi helps promote fairness in criminal justice through a platform that provides tools that enable video evidence to be analyzed.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Criminal Justice North America
DT
Dr. Topeka K. Sam
📍 New York, NY, USA
Founder & CEO
FRSH 🔗
Dr. Sam helps the justice impacted community by eliminating all barriers to entry for the formerly incarcerated.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Criminal Justice North America
CK
Cait Kennedy
📍 Cleveland, OH, USA
Executive Director
UnBail 🔗
Cait supports courts in harnessing digital solutions to improve justice delivery.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to Justice Courts & Judiciary North America
PE
Patricia El Jerdy Sader
📍 Beirut, Lebanon
Co-founder
Easy Laws 🔗
Patricia helps people access law through a public legal education platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law Middle East & North Africa
CC
Collen Channels
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
Co-Founder & CLO
LegalFundi 🔗
Colleen helps people access legal informaiton and solutions through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Sub-Saharan Africa
AL
Aida Lutaj
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
Co-founder & CEO
Legitify 🔗
Aida is helping people access notary services through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Europe
NI
Nadine Imad
📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Lexyom 🔗
Nadine helps businesses and entrepreneurs access legal services.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Business & Entrepreneurs Middle East & North Africa
CL
Camille Lopez
📍 USA
Lawyer
Justice Direct LLC 🔗
Camille helps people access support for small claims and other matters through tech (former founder of People Clerk, acquired by Justice Direct)
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
ST
Sheila Tan
📍 Los Altos, CA, USA
Co-founder
Bliss Divorce 🔗
Sheila co-founded Bliss Divorce helping people access legal support for divorce through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law North America
AB
Amanda Bell
📍 London, England, United Kingdom
Co-founder
Separate Space 🔗
Amanda helps people access affordable legal support for separation and divorce through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law Europe
VN
Victoria Nottage
📍 London, England, United Kingdom
Co-founder
Separate Space 🔗
Victoria helps people access affordable legal support for separation and divorce through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law Europe
AS
Aydé Soto Wright
📍 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Co-founder & CTO
Simple CItizen 🔗
Ayde helps people access legal support for immigration needs through a platform.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration North America
GM
Genevieve Martin
📍 CN, USA
Co-Founder
Talent Nova 🔗
Genevieve helps justice impacted talent face substantial barriers signaling their nontraditional experience into corporate terms. Through Talent Nova, Genevieve is leading the way to translate nonlinear experience into valuable skills that employers embrace.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to Justice North America
BS
Bat-Chen Schlesinger
📍 Efrat, Israel
Founder and CEO
JustLaw 🔗
Bat-Chen is helping people by developing and supporting innovative technology tools designed to simplify legal processes for consumers and expand access to justice worldwide.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Middle East & North Africa
IP
Irawati Puteri
📍 Palo Alto, CA, USA
Founder and CEO
Legali AI 🔗
Irawati is leading justice innovation through a legal technology platform designed to democratize access to justice for self-represented litigants navigating the civil legal system.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
EW
Eileen Webster
📍 Colorado, USA
Legal Facilitator, Virtual Pro Se Clinics
Colorado Access to Justice Commission 🔗
Eileen is helping people access legal information and assistance through a free, tech-enabled legal advice clinic that leverages a network of 24 virtual clinics to connect talented attorneys with rural Coloradans. With robust partnerships at libraries and community organizations, it supports nearly 100 rural residents each month using innovative digital tools, scheduling platforms, and CRM solutions.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
KM
Kate McEntee
📍 Melbourne, Australia
Assistant Director, Service Design and Innovation
Consumer Action Law Center 🔗
Kate is advancing justice innovation through service design at one of Australia's leading consumer legal centers.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Asia & the Pacific
MH
Megan Hennings
📍 Raleigh, NC, USA
Innovation Lab Program Manager & Staff Attorney
Legal Aid of North Carolina 🔗
Megan is advancing justice innovation through Legal Aid of North Carolina's Innovation Lab, developing technology-driven solutions to expand access to justice.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
RS
Roya Samarghandi
📍 Chicago, IL, USA
Chief Advocacy & Innovation Officer
Chicago Bar Foundation 🔗
Roya is advancing access to justice through advocacy and innovation at the Chicago Bar Foundation.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support North America
KF
Kate Fazio
📍 Melbourne, Australia
Principal
Kate Fazio Consulting
Kate is advancing access to justice innovation across the Asia-Pacific region through strategic consulting.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Asia & the Pacific
AH
Angela Harbinson
📍 Melbourne, Australia
Co-Founder and CEO
The Separation Guide 🔗
Angela helps people access support for separation and divorce.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law Asia & the Pacific
PP
Professor Philippa Webb
📍 Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-Founder & Director; Professor of Public International Law
Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, Blavatnik School of Government 🔗
Professor Webb is advancing justice through her research and leadership of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, the first global initiative dedicated to harnessing AI for justice, in partnership with the Clooney Foundation for Justice. The Institute's three pillars are access to justice, accountability, and advancement of international law. Its work includes the AI Justice Atlas mapping AI use in courtrooms across 15+ jurisdictions, AI-powered legal support tools including a WhatsApp chatbot for women in Malawi, and a Fair Trial Adviser being developed with Microsoft.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center Europe
BK
Brittany Kauffman
📍 Denver, CO, USA
CEO
IAALS 🔗
Brittany is advancing justice system reform and innovation at IAALS.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support North America
JB
Jessica Bednarz
📍 Denver, CO, USA
Director of Legal Services and the Profession
IAALS 🔗
Jessica is advancing justice system reform and innovation at IAALS.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support North America
DK
Danielle Kalil
📍 Denver, CO, USA
Director of Civil Justice and the Judiciary
IAALS 🔗
Danielle is advancing justice system reform and innovation at IAALS.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support North America
PT
Pegeen Turner
📍 Raleigh, NC, USA
Co-Founder
Lexopulus 🔗
Pegeen is helping expand access to legal services through an intake tool designed to help legal aid organizations and nonprofits in the US and Canada streamline operations, enhance service delivery, and meet mission-critical objectives. It helps organizations increase efficiency, enhance accuracy, improve accessibility, and break down the barriers to justice.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
AW
Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk
📍 London, United Kingdom
Program Director
LawtechUK 🔗
Aleksandra is advancing consumer-facing legal technology innovation through LawtechUK's B2C initiative.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Europe
PC
Professor Caitlin "Cat" Moon
📍 Nashville, TN, USA
Professor of the Practice of Law; Co-Director, Program on Law & Innovation; Founding Co-Director, Vanderbilt AI Law Lab
Vanderbilt Law School 🔗
Professor Moon directs the Program on Law & Innovation and co-directs the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL), which co-develops service delivery solutions with legal aid organizations and trains students to lead at the intersection of technology and justice. She founded the PoLI Institute for post-graduate executive education and co-produces the Summit on Law and Innovation. A Fastcase 50 honoree and JTA advisory board member, her research and programs advance how technology can expand access to legal services and knowledge.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeLaw School Clinic or Center North America
NK
Natalie Knowlton
📍 Palo Alto, CA, USA
Associate Director of Legal Innovation
Stanford Center on the Legal Profession 🔗
Natalie is advancing access to justice and access to law through the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawLaw School Clinic or Center North America
PD
Professor Diane O'Leary
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Director, Legal Innovation and Tech Center
Suffolk Law School 🔗
Professor O'Leary directs Suffolk Law's nationally ranked Legal Innovation & Technology Center, where students build real-world tools including AI-powered chatbots and mobile court forms for access to justice. Through her research and the LIT Lab, she advances technology competence in legal practice, and her program has been named the top legal innovation and technology program in the nation by National Jurist.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawLaw School Clinic or Center North America
CC
Clare Carter
📍 London, United Kingdom
CEO
Access to Justice Foundation 🔗
Clare is advancing justice through her leadership of the Access to Justice Foundation, which increases funding for free legal advice by awarding grants, raising funds, and making the case for investment in advice across the UK.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawEco-system Support Europe
AK
Aparna Komarla
📍 Berkeley, CA, USA
Founder
redo.ai 🔗
Aparna is building data-driven solutions for justice through redo.io.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice North America
KR
Kelli Raker
📍 Durham, NC, USA
Associate Director, Law, Tech & Entrepreneurship Programs
Duke University Law School 🔗
Kelli supports the Duke Center on Law & Tech, including RAILS, manages the Duke Law Tech Lab, coordinates the Legal Design Derby and Future of Contracts Design Derby, and researches justice tech.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawLaw School Clinic or Center North America
CC
Casey Chiappetta
📍 USA
Officer, Data and Technical Assistance
The Pew Charitable Trusts 🔗
Casey focuses on reforming high-volume cases such as debt collection and supporting court modernization through open data initiatives and user-centered technology.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support North America
KA
Katherine Alteneder
📍 USA
Principal
Access to Justice Innovation
Katherine is advancing access to justice innovation as a leader in the justice tech ecosystem.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support North America
LK
Laura Kistemaker
📍 The Hague, Netherlands
CEO and Co-Founder
Justice42 🔗
Laura is making the divorce process more accessible and helping couples separate amicably.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Family Law Europe
RK
Riikka Koulu
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Director
Helsinki Legal Tech Lab, University of Helsinki 🔗
Riikka is a leading European academic advancing AI and digital justice research.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance Europe
MB
Melissa Brogdon
📍 Atlanta, GA, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
Fourth Party 🔗
Melissa is streamlining dispute resolution for mediators, courts, and legal professionals. Fourth Party provides innovative solutions streamlining every aspect of dispute resolution from scheduling and communication to case management and payments.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyDispute Resolution Family Law North America
CJ
Claudia Johnson
📍 Bellingham, WA, USA
Assistant Professor & Founder, Law Help Interactive
Western Washington University / Law Help Interactive 🔗
Claudia helps people access legal support through an interactive website assisting them in completing legal documents for free.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
KD
Kanan Dhru
📍 The Hague, Netherlands
Researcher on Law and Technology; General Partner, Ritam Ventures
The Hague University of Applied Sciences / Ritam Ventures
Kanan researches law and technology and leads Ritam Ventures, India's first LegalTech Venture Capital Fund, investing in pioneering innovations where technology transforms law, justice, and society.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Europe
RD
Renee Danser
📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
Associate Director
Access to Justice Lab, Harvard Law School 🔗
Renee provides decision makers with scientific evidence about what works in access to justice, using randomized control trials and rigorous qualitative evidence to implement solutions that really make a difference.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeLaw School Clinic or Center North America
JW
Jenifer Whiston
📍 Albany, NY, USA
Director of Philanthropy
Free Law Project 🔗
Jenifer advances access to vital legal information through Free Law Project, which uses technology, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawEco-system Support North America
JC
Julie Ciccolini
📍 Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Founder
Techivist 🔗
Julie empowers defenders with groundbreaking software to track law enforcement misconduct. Techivist helps defenders and innocence organizations effectively address systemic abuses and protect the rights of the accused.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Criminal Justice North America
MM
Megan Ma
📍 Menlo Park, CA, USA
Founding Executive Director, liftlab
Stanford Law School 🔗
Megan leads liftlab at Stanford Law School and serves as Editor in Chief of the Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance, advancing the intersection of AI, law, and justice.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance North America
KB
Kim Bennett
📍 Atlanta, GA, USA
Co-Founder
Fidu 🔗
With a social impact lens, Kim helps legal professionals deliver better, smarter, and more sustainable services through Fidu, a client experience platform that enables lawyers to move from hourly billing to subscription and flat-fee models, making legal services more accessible and predictable for clients.
Eco-system Leader Eco-system SupportAccess to Justice North America
JG
Jamie Giani
📍 Wesley Chapel, FL, USA
CEO & Founder
Third Branch Solutions 🔗
Jamie is building the first-of-its-kind boutique consultancy focused on supporting federal court units, filling support gaps by matching current needs with existing resources and building a community of former federal judiciary employees and subject-matter experts. Part of Third Branch Solutions' mission is to help courts become more innovative and build tech, digital, and AI literacy, approaching emerging tech proactively, intentionally, and ethically.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector TechnologyAccess to Justice Courts & Judiciary North America
HB
Heidi Behnke
📍 Atlanta, GA, USA
Statewide Project Manager
Georgia Legal Services 🔗
Heidi is helping legal services organizations use data and technology to transform how they serve clients. She has led development of staff training systems, improved data collection practices, and published a white paper on the intersection of AI and legal services triage and intake systems. She continues to work on streamlining fundamental elements of legal services delivery through improved technologies.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Civil Law North America
AB
Amber Bobin
📍 Hawaii, USA
Co-Founder & Director
CaseAid.Ai 🔗
Amber is helping people access legal support through CaseAid.Ai, a platform for virtual legal clinics. It helps nonprofits host clinics and connects lawyers with meaningful pro bono opportunities.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Pro Bono North America
OL
Odunoluwa Longe
📍 London / Lagos, United Kingdom / Nigeria
Co-Founder
DIY Law 🔗
Odunoluwa helps people access affordable legal support through DIYLaw, a Nigerian legal technology platform that democratizes access to legal services.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Civil Law Europe
AO
Ana Ortega-Villegas
📍 USA
Director of Programs
Mobile Pathways 🔗
Ana is helping underserved immigrants gain access to reliable legal information about their numerous pathways to immigration via mobile technology, artificial intelligence, and data through Mobile Pathways.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeAccess to Law Immigration North America
MR
Maura R. Grossman
📍 Waterloo, ON, Canada
Research Professor, School of Computer Science; Director of Women in Computer Science
University of Waterloo 🔗
Maura is a leading researcher on AI and law. She is currently helping courts and legal practitioners understand when AI-generated evidence can be trusted and when it cannot. At the University of Waterloo, her research examines how AI systems used in legal proceedings should be evaluated, tested, and governed, work that directly shapes how judges and lawyers assess the reliability of machine learning outputs in courtrooms. She teaches a joint course on AI law, ethics, and policy bridging computer science and law students, building the next generation of professionals who can critically evaluate AI in justice contexts.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance North America
AD
Annette Demers
📍 Windsor, ON, Canada
Law Reference Librarian; Chair, CALL/ACBD AI Working Group
University of Windsor, Faculty of Law 🔗
Annette is helping the legal profession develop standards for AI in legal research and practice. She chairs the Canadian Association of Law Libraries AI Working Group, leading 13 law librarians across Canada focused on AI applications in legal research and writing, and represents CALL on the Standards Council of Canada mirror committee to the ISO/IEC Committee on Artificial Intelligence. She has created comprehensive AI regulation and legal resource guides tracking the evolving landscape of AI governance.
Eco-system Leader Access to LawJustice Policy & Governance AI Policy & Governance North America
JL
Jennifer Leitch
📍 Toronto, ON, Canada
Executive Director
National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) 🔗
Jennifer is helping self-represented litigants navigate the justice system using AI tools and education. Under her leadership, the National Self-Represented Litigants Project has integrated AI-supported services and developed resources educating people on how to use AI effectively for their cases, addressing both the promise and risks of these tools for the approximately 50% of civil litigants in Canada who go to court without a lawyer.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice North America
TR
Tanina Rostain
📍 Washington, DC, USA
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Justice Innovation; Faculty Director, Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy
Georgetown University Law Center 🔗
Tanina is helping people access justice through technology and data. She founded the Justice Lab at Georgetown, a research center investigating new approaches to everyday legal problems. She co-leads the Georgetown Civil Justice Data Commons, a secure court data repository facilitating research on evictions and debt collection. She created the Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, where student teams build digital tools that expand access to justice, and leads GAILP (Georgetown AI and the Legal Profession), examining how AI is reshaping legal practice and the justice system.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center Civil Law North America
KS
Katie Szilagyi
📍 Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Manitoba 🔗
Katie is helping justice systems understand the risks of deploying AI in legal decision-making. Her current research examines how sentencing software, facial recognition in policing, and generative AI in legal practice can embed bias and undermine due process. She works to ensure that as courts and government agencies adopt automated tools, they preserve human judgment, accountability, and democratic governance in the administration of justice.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportCourt & Justice Sector TechnologyLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance North America
PE
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
📍 Oakland, CA, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
Promise 🔗
Phaedra is helping people better access government benefits and make payments through Promise, which provides AI-powered digital infrastructure for government agencies. The platform enables flexible repayment plans for utilities, child support, criminal justice debt, and parking tickets, along with real-time communications and automated benefits verification and delivery. Live across 20+ states, Promise makes it easier for people experiencing poverty to maintain access to essential services and resolve government obligations without incarceration.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology North America
PD
Pascale Dahrouj
📍 Beirut, Lebanon
Founder & CEO
Willminds LLC 🔗
Pascale is helping people solve legal problems through alternative dispute resolution enabled by technology. She founded Willminds with an online ADR platform that has achieved an 85% settlement rate in Lebanon, where 68% of the population has experienced legal problems and courts have largely stopped functioning. Willminds also produces plain-language legal rights videos for Lebanese citizens and runs mediation and arbitration workshops in schools and universities, building dispute resolution capacity from the ground up.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Civil Law Middle East & North Africa
JN
Jackie Nagtegaal
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
Managing Director (CEO)
LIPCO - LAW FOR ALL 🔗
Jackie is helping people across Africa access affordable legal services through LAW FOR ALL, the continent's leading alternative legal service provider, resolving approximately 100,000 cases annually through technology-enabled services. She launched the LAW FOR ALL LegalTech Accelerator Fund to support women-led legal tech startups in Africa, building a pipeline of innovation aimed at closing the continent's justice gap.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Sub-Saharan Africa
CL
Christina Lang
📍 Berlin, Germany
CEO & Co-Founder
DigitalService (DigitalService4Germany GmbH) 🔗
Christina is helping citizens interact with government and the justice system more effectively through digital tools. She founded DigitalService, the German federal government's central digitalization unit, which has built the Digitalcheck, a digital-readiness check applied to all new federal legislation, and digitalized legal petition processes. The team of over 200 builds and operates digital products that place citizen needs at the center of government service delivery.
Public Sector AI Leader Court & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & Governance Courts & Judiciary Europe
KP
Kara Peterson
📍 Boston, MA, USA
Co-Founder & CEO
descrybe.ai 🔗
Kara is helping people understand and access the law through descrybe.ai, a free AI-powered legal search engine that has summarized and made searchable over 3.6 million judicial opinions from across the United States in English and Spanish. The platform uses generative AI to make complex legal information accessible to both professionals and laypeople, lowering cost barriers to legal research and addressing the access to justice crisis at its most fundamental level, access to the law itself.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law North America
MP
Monica Palmirani
📍 Bologna, Italy
Full Professor of Computer Science and Law; President, IAAIL
University of Bologna, School of Law 🔗
Monica is helping courts, parliaments, and justice institutions worldwide make legal documents machine-readable and AI-ready. She co-created Akoma Ntoso, the international legal document standard now adopted by the United Nations, the European Union, the Italian Senate, the Brazilian Senate, the UK National Archives, and courts across multiple countries for structuring parliamentary, legislative, and judicial documents in digital format. She built Norma-System, a legal information system that manages legal resources over time for courts and government agencies, and led the Lexdatafication project converting Italy's entire legislative and Constitutional Court corpus into machine-consumable format. As President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, she leads the global research community working at the intersection of AI and legal systems.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Court & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & GovernanceLaw School Clinic or Center AI Policy & Governance Europe
JY
Jessica Yáñez
📍 Greensboro, NC, USA
Founder & CEO
JusticeFinder, Inc. 🔗
Jessica founded JusticeFinder, a mobile platform that connects people seeking legal help with verified attorneys through instant messaging, interpreter services, and smart matching by specialty, location, and language.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration North America
RS
Rhiana Spring
📍 Bern, Switzerland
CEO & Founder
Spring ACT – Action. Compassion. Technology. 🔗
Rhiana is empowering survivors of domestic violence through technology built for safety, anonymity, and global reach. She founded Spring ACT in 2021 and built Sophia — the world's first AI chatbot for domestic violence survivors. Sophia has facilitated more than 41,000 confidential conversations across 170+ countries in 25 languages, and includes an encrypted Digital Safe where survivors can gather and store evidence without leaving a digital trace. Her work has been recognized with the Swiss Youth and Future Prize from the President of Switzerland, the European Investment Bank's Social Innovation Prize, and MIT Solve.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology Gender-Based Violence Global
HJ
Hallie Jay Pope
📍 Newark, USA
Director, New Jersey Legal Design Lab
New Jersey Legal Design Lab, Seton Hall University School of Law 🔗
Hallie is making legal information accessible through legal design, visual storytelling, and participatory methods. She directs the New Jersey Legal Design Lab at Seton Hall Law, part of the state-funded Housing Justice Project, and previously founded the Graphic Advocacy Project — a nonprofit that translated complex legal concepts like evictions, wage theft, and bankruptcy into infographics, animated videos, and illustrated guides in partnership with legal services organizations.
Law School Clinic or Center Leader Eco-system SupportLaw School Clinic or Center North America
CJ
Clementine Jacoby
📍 San Francisco, CA, USA
Co-founder & CEO
Recidiviz 🔗
Clementine is using data and software to safely unwind mass incarceration in the United States.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Court & Justice Sector TechnologyJustice Policy & Governance Criminal Justice North America
AT
Angela Tripp
📍 USA
Program Officer for Technology
Legal Services Corporation 🔗
Angela helps legal aid organizations implement innovative technology as Program Officer for Technology at the Legal Services Corporation, where she manages the Technology Initiative Grant program, which has awarded more than 950 grants totaling over $95 million.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Civil Law North America
TS
Tasnuva Shelley
📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Deputy Attorney General, Government of Bangladesh; Founder, Legalized EdTech
Legalized EdTech 🔗
Barrister Tasnuva Shelley is building one of Bangladesh's first AI-enabled public legal education and justice innovation ecosystems. Through Legalized Education Bangladesh Ltd., she combines legal education, responsible AI, policy reform, and public legal empowerment to expand access to justice and prepare future generations for technology-driven legal systems.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeAccess to LawJustice Policy & GovernanceEco-system Support AI Policy & Governance Asia & the Pacific
GB
Grace Burns
📍 Beverly, NJ, USA
Founder
PatternProof 🔗
Grace founded PatternProof to help domestic violence and sexual assault survivors identify and document patterns of abuse for family court, protective order, and civil proceedings. Drawing on her own courtroom experience, she is building a tool that turns fragmented incidents into a clear, court-ready narrative for survivors who cannot afford counsel.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to LawCourt & Justice Sector Technology Gender-Based ViolenceFamily Law North America
JR
Jane Ribadeneyra
📍 USA
Senior Program Officer for Technology
Legal Services Corporation 🔗
Jane oversees the Legal Services Corporation's Technology Initiative Grants, helping legal aid organizations use technology to expand access to legal help for low-income Americans.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Civil Law North America
T(
Teresa (Teri) Ross
📍 Chicago, IL, USA
Executive Director
Illinois Legal Aid Online 🔗
Teri leads Illinois Legal Aid Online, a nationally recognized nonprofit that uses technology to lower barriers to the law, and has extended its reach beyond its website into APIs, text messaging, and voice services.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to Law Civil Law North America
SC
Sarah Coffey Bowes
📍 Baltimore, MD, USA
Executive Director
Civil Justice, Inc. 🔗
Sarah leads Civil Justice, Inc., where she developed the Maryland Justice Passport, a free, trauma-informed platform that won the American Legal Technology Award for Access to Justice. She also built one of the nation's first programs centralizing eviction intake across legal service organizations, and chairs the Legal Technology Subcommittee of Maryland's Innovations in Tiered Legal Services Task Force.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology Civil Law North America
LC
Lisa Colpoys
📍 Chicago, IL, USA
Senior Consultant, AI Initiative
Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
Lisa leads the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois AI Initiative, building AI capacity, confidence, and competence across 57 legal aid organizations through community engagement, AI education, and technical support.
Eco-system Leader Access to JusticeEco-system Support Civil Law North America
BR
Bonnie Rose Hough
📍 Sausalito, CA, USA
Consultant on Access to Justice
Bonnie Rose Hough Consulting
Bonnie is a nationally recognized access to justice innovator who teaches on court-based self-help centers and technology, including their ethics, development, and evaluation. She was named a Distinguished Hero in the Access to Justice Movement by the Self-Represented Litigation Network.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Access to JusticeCourt & Justice Sector Technology Courts & Judiciary North America
ZD
Zoe Dolan
📍 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Trial Attorney
Eviction Defense Network 🔗
Zoe studies how AI can empower tenants in litigation at Eviction Defense Network and co-creates VybnAI, whose law project is building a network commons where people and AI can find each other and solve problems together.
Legal Aid/Nonprofit Tech Innovator Access to Justice Civil Law North America
SR
Swapna Reddy
📍 USA
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) 🔗
Swapna co-leads the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, the largest organization of asylum seekers in the United States, and leads its technology work, delivering legal information and support at scale through digital tools including a legal help desk where immigration attorneys answer members' questions.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to Law Immigration North America
CC
Conchita Cruz
📍 New York, NY, USA
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) 🔗
Conchita co-leads the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, whose online legal resources are accessed more than 10 million times a year, alongside a digital legal help desk and video tutorials that help asylum seekers navigate the U.S. immigration system.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to JusticeAccess to Law Immigration North America
ND
Nimrita Dadlani
📍 London, United Kingdom
Founder and CEO
Pivot 🔗
Nimrita founded Pivot, an AI platform that helps family law clients and their solicitors turn scattered evidence into organized, court-ready chronologies and financial disclosure. Drawing on her own experience representing herself in family court, she was named an Innovate UK Women in Innovation award winner.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Family Law Europe
HH
Hera Hussain
📍 Manchester, United Kingdom
Founder and CEO
Chayn 🔗
Hera leads Chayn, a global nonprofit building free, trauma-informed technology for survivors of gender-based violence. Its Survivor AI tool helps survivors of image-based abuse generate formal takedown requests to online platforms, in multiple languages.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Europe
JF
Joanna Frivet
📍 Leitrim, Ireland
Founder and CEO
LegalMoov 🔗
Joanna leads LegalMoov, which helps people in Ireland understand their legal rights through an AI assistant grounded in verified Irish statutes and case law, and connects them with solicitors, barristers, and mediators on transparent pricing.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Civil Law Europe
KS
Katrin Stopp von Falkenstein
📍 Munich, Germany
Founder and CEO
Law.me 🔗
Katrin leads Law.me, an AI-powered conflict management platform that gives individuals a first legal assessment of everyday civil disputes, including tenancy, employment, family, and inheritance matters, and guides them toward out-of-court settlement.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Civil LawFamily LawEmployment Europe
ND
Nicola Dell
📍 New York, USA
Co-founder and Co-director, Clinic to End Tech Abuse
Cornell Tech 🔗
Nicola co-leads Cornell Tech's Clinic to End Tech Abuse, which gives survivors of intimate partner violence direct help with tech abuse and turns that work into research and policy.
Eco-system Leader Eco-system SupportAccess to Justice Gender-Based Violence North America
BL
Breeze Liu
📍 USA
Founder and CEO
Alecto AI 🔗
Breeze leads Alecto AI, a free AI agent that helps survivors of image-based abuse, including deepfakes and sextortion, prepare takedown requests, police reports and lawyer intake files.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence North America
OO
Omowumi Ogunrotimi
📍 Abuja, Nigeria
Founder and Executive Director
Gender Mobile Initiative 🔗
Omowumi leads Gender Mobile Initiative, a Nigerian nonprofit using technology and advocacy to end sexual and gender-based violence, including safe reporting tools for universities.
Tech Nonprofit Executive Director Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Sub-Saharan Africa
MT
Mariam Torosyan
📍 Yerevan, Armenia
Founder and CEO
Safe YOU 🔗
Mariam leads Safe YOU, a free app that gives women SOS alerts, verified support services and anonymous community forums to stay safe from gender-based violence.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence Europe
EB
Erin Bury
📍 Toronto, Canada
Co-founder and CEO
Willful 🔗
Erin leads Willful, an online platform that makes creating a legal will and estate plan simple and affordable for Canadians.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law Trusts & Estates North America
MK
Manasi Kulkarni
📍 United Kingdom
Co-founder and CEO
Conveyd 🔗
Manasi leads Conveyd, a lawyer-led online conveyancing service that uses AI to make buying, selling and remortgaging a home faster, clearer and fixed-fee for UK households.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law Civil Law Europe
MC
Mona Chiha
📍 Sydney, Australia
Founder and CEO
JurisTechne 🔗
Mona leads JurisTechne, a legal deep-tech company whose algorithmic law platform uses AI to assess litigation and predict case outcomes for businesses and individuals.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeDispute Resolution Civil Law Asia & the Pacific
CE
Cara Echino
📍 USA
Founder
Lawggle 🔗
Cara leads Lawggle, a platform where people post legal questions, verified lawyers answer them, and the answers stay searchable for others.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Law North America
LS
Lucrezia Spagnolo
📍 Toronto, Canada
Founder and CEO
VESTA Social Innovation Technologies 🔗
Lucrezia leads VESTA, a social enterprise whose anonymous online reporting tools help survivors of sexual violence and harassment connect with local support services and police.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Gender-Based Violence North America
NM
Neema Magimba
📍 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Co-founder and CEO
Sheria Kiganjani 🔗
Neema leads Sheria Kiganjani, Tanzania's Swahili-language digital legal platform, where low- and middle-income users can talk or chat with qualified lawyers and find plain-language legal information at any hour.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to JusticeAccess to Law Civil Law Sub-Saharan Africa
LF
Linda Fitz-Alan
📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Registrar and Chief Executive
ADGM Courts 🔗
Linda leads ADGM Courts, a digital court in Abu Dhabi, where she is launching AI-powered services that help users navigate the judicial process, complete documents and access court services, and is developing blockchain-based authentication and enforcement of judgments.
Justice or Court Innovation Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Access to Justice Courts & Judiciary Middle East & North Africa
SR
Sarah Rose
📍 London, United Kingdom
Deputy Director, Digital Justice and Dispute Resolution Policy
Ministry of Justice (UK) 🔗
Sarah leads digital justice and dispute resolution policy at the UK Ministry of Justice, heading teams for user-centred policy design and service transformation.
Public Sector AI Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Justice Policy & Governance Dispute Resolution Europe
MD
Muriel Décot
📍 Strasbourg, France
Executive Secretary
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe 🔗
Muriel leads the secretariat of the Council of Europe's CEPEJ, which advances cyberjustice and responsible use of AI in European judicial systems, including its ethical charter on AI in justice and work toward an AI observatory for the justice sector.
Eco-system Leader Court & Justice Sector Technology Justice Policy & Governance Eco-system Support AI Policy & Governance Europe
GR
Gabriela Ramos
📍 Paris, France
Chair
Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) 🔗
Gabriela chairs the Center for AI and Digital Policy, which advances AI policies that protect fundamental rights, democratic values and the rule of law, and is a senior fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Policy and Practice. As UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, she led the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by 193 member states, the first global standard on AI ethics.
Eco-system Leader Justice Policy & Governance Eco-system Support AI Policy & Governance Global
MD
Mona Datt
📍 Canada
CEO and Founder
Loom Analytics 🔗
Mona leads Loom Analytics, an AI evidence platform that helps courts, justice and public safety agencies record, transcribe, analyze, redact and share evidence securely.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Court & Justice Sector Technology Courts & JudiciaryCriminal Justice North America
RB
Regina Barchan
📍 Warsaw, Poland
Founder and CEO
Pravoman 🔗
Regina leads Pravoman, a legal chatbot and app that gives Ukrainian citizens and small businesses legal guidance, drafts documents and helps them use government e-services, including people displaced abroad by the war.
Justice Tech Founder or CEO Access to Justice Immigration Europe
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Legal Aid and Nonprofit Tech
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Courts and Public Sector
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Law Schools and Academia
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Europe
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Canada
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Europe
43 leaders
Asia & the Pacific
16 leaders
Global
14 leaders
Sub-Saharan Africa
13 leaders
Middle East & North Africa
7 leaders
Latin America & Caribbean
3 leaders
About This Dashboard
Women Building the Future of Justice
A collaboration of Lady Justice Initiative and the Justice Technology Association.

Explore the dashboard to learn about leaders building justice tech companies and nonprofits, innovating with tech in judiciaries and legal aid, pioneering research and justice innovation in law schools and centers, and building a future where justice is available to all.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Women Building the Future of Justice Dashboard?

The Women Building the Future of Justice Dashboard is the first global intelligence resource mapping women leaders across the justice landscape. It profiles 212 leaders across 33 countries and continues to grow. It is built through a collaboration between Lady Justice Initiative and Justice Technology Association.

Who is profiled on the dashboard?

The dashboard profiles women leaders across four pillars of the justice landscape: justice tech entrepreneurs building market-based solutions, tech non-profit and legal aid innovators advancing public-interest technology, public sector leaders harnessing AI to improve justice delivery within government and judicial institutions, and ecosystem supporters in academic clinics and centers, research, networks, and other capacity-building roles.

Who produces the Women Building the Future of Justice Dashboard?

The dashboard is co-produced by Lady Justice Initiative, a nonprofit building global infrastructure for women's leadership in the AI transformation of law and justice, and Justice Technology Association.

How many leaders does the dashboard cover, and where are they based?

The dashboard currently profiles 212 women leaders across 33 countries, with the largest concentrations in North America and Europe and a growing presence across Asia and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

What justice areas do the profiled leaders work in?

Profiled leaders build solutions across family law including divorce and prenups, criminal justice, trusts and estates, court and justice innovation, gender-based violence response, access to justice platforms, employment, dispute resolution, SMEs and entrepreneurship, AI transformation and ecosystem building, and immigration. They are innovating where the legal market has historically underinvested and where the stakes for women, families, communities, and economies are highest.

Why does it matter who builds justice solutions?

Who builds systems and solutions shapes what gets built and who it reaches. Builders with lived experience design socio-technical solutions that work for the people most affected, pairing AI with the legal, institutional, and community infrastructure that makes those solutions durable. Inclusive innovation is foundational to realizing the potential of AI for justice.

How can I use the dashboard?

Investors, philanthropy, and governments can support the women leading the next generation of justice infrastructure by deploying resources to support their organizations and ventures. Policymakers can invite profiled leaders into rooms shaping AI governance, responsible AI, justice policy, and digital public infrastructure. Companies can add them to boards, procure their technology, and partner on pilots. Convenors can feature them as keynote speakers and expert commentators, and media can cover their work.