Nicole Phillips is a human rights legal advisor and adjunct professor at UC College of the Law, San Francisco, where she co-teaches Human Rights and Rule of Law in Haiti. Certified as an expert witness on conditions in Haiti in dozens of U.S. immigration cases, she has appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and several UN bodies on a variety of issues. From 2020 to 2024, Ms. Phillips was Legal Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies for Haitian and other Black migrants. Based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 2010 to 2018, Ms. Phillips worked as a staff attorney with the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (“IJDH”). She also regularly provides legal and human rights analysis to U.S. and international media.