Kysseline Jean-Mary Chérestal has worked for many years as an advocate alongside communities seeking to secure their land rights throughout the world, including in Haiti. Kysseline is an attorney with 17 years of experience; she received her Juris Doctor from Fordham Law School and is licensed to practice law in New York and in Washington, DC, where she lives with her family. Kysseline is fluent in Haitian-Creole, French, English and Spanish.