Heather Axford

Heather Axford serves as Director at Central American Legal Assistance since January 2023 and has been a Legal Director at the same organization since September 2008, providing legal assistance to refugees from Central and South America. Additionally, Heather Axford has been an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School since January 2017, teaching a Refugee & Asylum Law Seminar. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Attorney at the Law Offices of Alan M. Parra, where legal assistance was provided to refugees from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and as a Hunger Fellow at the Congressional Hunger Center from 2003 to 2004. Heather Axford earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007 and a B.A. in History from Vassar College in 2003.