Nancy Morisseau

Nancy Morisseau is an attorney in private practice and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Haitian American Lawyers Association of New York, Inc. (HALANY).  Nancy worked closely with the New York State Assembly  to successfully pass a resolution denouncing the denationalization policies of the Dominican Republic.  In addition to coordinating rallies, community-based responses, educational programming, she has been an outspoken advocate to restore citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian descent and campaigns for the fair  and equitable treatment of all in the Dominican Republic.  She is a magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations & African American Studies.  She has a Master’s of Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science where she did her graduate thesis on Haitian market women.  At Cornell Law School, where she obtained her J.D., she was an Article Editor on the Cornell Law Review and published a Note, Seen But Not Heard: Child Soldiers Suing Gun Manufacturers Under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 89 CORNELL L. REV. 1263 (2004).  Professionally, she clerked for the Honorable George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York, and was associated with a number of Wall Street law firms and government agencies.  Nancy served as an interpreter for  Haitian asylum seekers at the Cornell Law School asylum clinic and translated French/Haitian Creole texts into English for her Master’s thesis.