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Emma Ruby-Sachs

lawyer, novelist and Deputy Director at Avaaz

Emma Ruby-Sachs is a writer, lawyer and the Deputy Director of Avaaz, a global civic movement with over 40 million members worldwide. She is the author of The Waterman’s Daughter, a literary novel set in South Africa, released in 2011 and her writing has been published in The Guardian, The Nation, Huffington Post and other international outlets. She previously practiced constitutional appellate law and administrative law and worked on issues of wrongful arrest and wrongful conviction in Canada. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and University of Toronto Faculty of Law.