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	Nicole Fritz Executive Director Nicole Fritz is the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. She obtained her LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and thereafter completed an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU Law School as a Hauser Global Scholar. She has taught constitutional and international law at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School and worked at Fordham Law School’s Crowley Program in International Human Rights in New York. She has also served as law clerk to Justice Richard Goldstone at South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Currently, she is a research associate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and a contributing editor to The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.
	Lloyd Kuveya Project Lawyer Media Defence After graduating from the Judicial College of Zimbabwe, Lloyd Kuveya worked has a Magistrate for fours years. He holds a LLB from the University of Zimbabwe, and completed a LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa. Lloyd has been a member of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights since 2002 and completed an internship with them in his final year of studying at the University of Zimbabwe. Before joining SALC, Lloyd worked as a law clerk to Justice Tholie Madala at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Lloyd has always endeavored to uphold the rule of law and protect the rights of the accused, prisoners, victims of crime and civil litigants.
	Priti Patel Project Lawyer HIV/Aids Before joining SALC, Priti Patel was an attorney in the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First. In that capacity, she led field missions to Afghanistan, monitored military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay, and worked on amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. She also clerked for former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Justice Catherine O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 2002-2003 and was a Fulbright scholar in Durban, South Africa, where she taught history at the University of Durban-Westville and conducted research on African-Indian relations in Durban. Priti graduated with a B.A. in History from Columbia University in 1997 and received her law degree from New York University School of Law in 2002.
	Aso Balan Office Manager and Website Administrator Aso Balan holds a Post Graduate qualification in Public Policy and Development Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Public and Development Management Aso has many years of experience as a human rights activist and a development practitioner in Southern Africa and has a particular interest in Gender and Women's Rights issues.