Following law school at Loyola, Alison Davis (JD ’17) joined the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Benin, West Africa, where she advises and monitors the organization’s implementing partners on compliance with U.S. and Beninese law and policy related to gender, social protection, and family planning. She also works with the Ministry of Health to improve Benin's legal, medical, and social service response to gender-based violence.
What brought you to Loyola for law school?
I selected Loyola because of its social justice mission. I received a generous scholarship because of my previous government and volunteer service. It showed me that Loyola valued my experience and commitment to serving others.
What co-curricular and extracurricular activities did you participate in at Loyola and how did they complement your classroom learning?
My interest in social protection and human rights was strengthened during my time at Loyola by a grant I received from Loyola’s Center for the Human Rights of Children, where I served as a Children’s Rights Graduate Scholar. My research at the center focused on victim witness protection for child trafficking victims. In this role, I was given the opportunity to travel to Geneva to participate in the civil society portion of the Universal Periodic Review of U.S. implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. As a 3L, I served as the editor of the Loyola University Chicago International Law Review’s symposium on rebuilding the rule of law following armed conflict. I also competed in the Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition and as a member of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team in Vienna, where my team advanced to the round of 32.
