Abby Natividad is Program Manager with the Rule of Law Collaborative (ROLC), which she joined in November 2020. At ROLC, she has served as the technical lead on the development of learning videos and online self-paced learning for the Justice Sector Training, Research and Coordination Program (JUSTRAC). In this role, she helped build a library of more than 40 learning videos and 70 self-paced lesson plans on topics such as anti-money-laundering, policing, cyber security, and anti-corruption. She has also delivered virtual and in-person training to justice sector professionals for JUSTRAC. She assisted in the design of two immersive interagency training simulations on illegal trafficking for investigators, prosecutors, and judges for a program based in Mongolia. She also helped design and implement a first-of-its-kind assessment of legal clinics in Moldova.
Before joining ROLC, she was a Research Specialist for Justice + Security in Transitions, where she focused on drug flows, forced migration, organized crime, resource-driven conflict, and security sector reform. She helped develop atrocity prevention training materials for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and worked as a contractor for the World Bank on an alternative dispute resolution project. She also has experience as an immigration and civil litigation attorney and clerked for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia.
In law school, she was a Graduate Research Fellow for the Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (CLSPCP). Her work on post-conflict legislation and constitution drafting was used by groups such as the Ukrainian Constitutional Commission. Through the CLSPCP, she resided in Pristina, Kosovo, where she assisted the Democracy for Development Institute. She was also a Research Assistant for the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she co-authored a memorandum on freedom of information as an anticorruption tool for the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law.
She received a J.D. from William & Mary Law School and a B.S. and B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she graduated summa cum laude.