Kimberley Benjamin
Kimberley Benjamin was a 2021-2022 Healthy Food Law and Policy Scholar and a 2022-2023 Healthy Food Law and Policy Fellow.
Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Benjamin worked on various short-term consultancy projects with the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy for Law, the Pan American Health Organization, the Office of Subregional Program Coordination, and the Healthy Caribbean Coalition. She also served as an intern at the United Nations Development Program, the Subregional Office for Barbados, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. She obtained the Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago to become an attorney-at-law. Benjamin also possesses a BSc. in International Business with French and Spanish from Aston University in the United Kingdom and recently completed a Master’s in Legislative Drafting from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in her home country of Barbados. Benjamin holds an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown Law. She also served as an intern at the United Nations Development Program, the Subregional Office for Barbados, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
She obtained the Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago to become an attorney-at-law. Benjamin also possesses a BSc. in International Business with French and Spanish from Aston University in the United Kingdom and recently completed a Master’s in Legislative Drafting from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in her home country of Barbados. Benjamin holds an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown Law.
Shajoe Lake
Shajoe J. Lake was a 2020-2021 Healthy Food Law and Policy scholar and is a 2021-2023 Healthy Food Law and Policy Fellow. Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Lake worked at an international insurance advisory firm, negotiating personal injury awards and advising insurers in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean on tortious liability cases. Lake has worked with various public health organizations on healthy food law and policy initiatives in the Caribbean.
Lake holds a Bachelor of Laws (J.D. equivalent) from the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. He is a trained attorney licensed to practice in Jamaica and holds an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown Law.
Tendai Mafuma
Tendai Mafuma was a 2021-2022 Healthy Food Law and Policy Scholar and is a 2022-2023 Healthy Food Law and Policy Fellow. Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Mafuma worked as a legal researcher at SECTION27, a South African organization that advocates for the right to health. Her areas of work included mental health, health systems reform, sexual and reproductive health rights, access to medicines, and the right to food. She also clerked for a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Mafuma holds an LL.B. and Master of Science in biochemistry from Rhodes University, South Africa, and an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown Law.
Valentina Castagnari
Valentina Castagnari was a 2021-2022 Healthy Food Law and Policy Scholar and a 2022-2023 Healthy Food Law and Policy Scholar. Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Castagnari worked as a visiting professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a researcher at the Center for Studies of State and Society (CEDES), where she focused her research on regulatory interventions to foster the right to food and prevent obesity and noncommunicable diseases. Castagnari is part of the Regional Observatory for the Right to Food (ODA-ALC) and has published her works in prestigious international journals. She has also worked as a consultant on health-related issues in international organizations, including UNICEF in Argentina.
Castagnari holds a J.D. from Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, where she graduated magna cum laude, and an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law from Georgetown Law.