Nyasa Steger

Nyasa Steger is a Lecturer at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Switzerland and Director of the International NGO Law and Policy Project (INLPP), where she works with students and NGOs on real-world legal, policy, and advocacy challenges. A New York–licensed attorney, she spent more than a decade at Brooklyn Defender Services, including as Director of Immigration Initiatives, and taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Her work focuses on expanding access to legal representation and practical legal information, including through a reciprocal exchange in Nigeria with American public defenders and Mandela Washington Fellows and her work with the AsyLex Global Steering Committee.