Davina Ugochukwu is a staff attorney with Lone Star Legal Aid’s Justice for Human Trafficking Survivors program. The JHTS program was created in response to the unique civil legal needs that survivors of labor and sex trafficking face when attempting to stabilize their lives and live securely and independently away from their perpetrators. To fulfill the program’s mission, Davina provides civil legal assistance to low-income survivors of human trafficking including obtaining protective orders, labor and employment protections, expungements and non disclosures for activities survivors were forced to engage in while being trafficked, help with immigration matters, filing for name changes, and more.
Davina has worked as an ally in anti-trafficking since 2006, from street outreach to research and policy work. She also has international legal experience, through her Master of Laws with American University’s Washington College of Law’s International Legal Studies, where she studied the intersectionality of human rights, transnational business and technology; her work with the Appeals Chamber for the UN’s ICTY; analysis of gender violence during times of international conflict; and the rights of those who identify as lgbtqia+ in countries with anti-lgbtqia+ laws.
In her spare time, she travels to as many new places as possible. To date, she has traveled to over 40 countries, 22 of which she traveled solo. She also recently started exploring the national parks the U.S. has to offer.
