Neha Misra

Neha Misra is the global coordinator for human trafficking and migrant worker programs at the Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO, an international worker rights NGO based in Washington, D.C.

She also serves as the senior program officer in the Africa regional office of the Solidarity Center. Previously, Neha was the deputy country director and program manager for the Solidarity Center's Counter Trafficking Project in Indonesia. She worked in Indonesia for more than five years, starting with the Solidarity Center as the director of its Democracy Project.

Before her assignment in Indonesia, she worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina on postwar elections and democracy, and in the United States as a senior attorney-advisor with the U.S. Department of Justice. While at DOJ, she also served as the president of American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3525.

Neha has a J. D. from the Washington College of Law at American University, where she focused her studies on international human rights law, and a bachelor of science in international business economics and public policy from Indiana University.

Neha is a member of the board of directors for the Global Workers Justice Alliance. She is also the chairperson of the Public Interest Committee for the North American South Asian Bar Association, or NASABA.

In 2005, Neha was honored by the American University-WCL as an alumni recipient of the Peter M. Cicchino Award for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest.