Katie Redford, Esq. is a Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International (ERI), an NGO that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment. 

Katie is an attorney with expertise in international human rights and environmental law, with a focus on corporate accountability.  She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and served as counsel to plaintiffs in ERI's landmark case Doe v. Unocal, the first case in which a corporation was successfully sued for human rights abuses.  

Katie received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1995 to establish ERI, and since that time has split her time between ERI's Thailand and US offices. In addition to working on ERI's litigation and teaching at the EarthRights Schools, Katie serves as an adjunct professor of law at both UVA and the Washington College of Law at American University and has published on various issues associated with human rights and corporate accountability.  

In 2006, she was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow, which recognizes the world’s leading social entrepreneurs who devise system changing solutions for urgent social problems. Katie has been profiled in books such as Be Bold and Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes, and the award-winning documentary filmTotal Denial.