Abigail Carbajal

Abigail Shaska Carbajal is a second-year student at Columbia Law School. She graduated in 2023 with honors from Brown University with degrees in Applied Mathematics and International & Public Affairs. Abigail has worked with organizations such as Human Rights Watch, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Center for Justice and International Law, the United Nations, and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. She has acted as a research assistant for several professors at both Brown and Columbia. At Columbia, Abigail is a Max Berger ‘71 Public Interest/Public Service Fellow, a staff editor for the Human Rights Law Review, a member of the Human Rights Clinic, the chair of the U-Visa Clinic within Columbia’s Domestic Violence Project, and the Research/Pro Bono chair for the Human Rights Association. She is particularly interested in corporate accountability, freedom of expression, accountability for state-sponsored violence, and women’s rights. Abigail is a native Spanish and English speaker and is currently learning Portuguese.