Klorkor, who was born in the US and raised in Ghana with her four sisters until she was 18, returned to the US to attend college and law school. Klorkor won funding for the summer between her second and third years at Villanova. She was assigned to the UN’s Ghana Country Office in Accra where she worked on projects with the UN Commission on Human Rights and Administration of Justice. Her projects for the UN brought her to Ghana’s Ministry of Justice and Office of the Attorney General. She describes as among the most rewarding experiences helping to develop and implement workshops that taught

different constituencies the intricacies of the electoral process, and how they can access the legal system. She also worked on efforts to address the significant absence of women in politics in Ghana, and to encourage local chiefs to allow and encourage women to have real, participatory roles in the electoral process. “It was truly wonderful and fulfilling experience to do hands-on legal work at the grassroots level,” Klorkor explained. “My work with the Commission on Human Rights helped me see the way in which the Commission helps enforce and guarantee human rights of the citizens of Ghana.”

Klorkor was one of nine fellows awarded PIFP fellowship this year. Other fellows worked with the WilmerHale Legal Services Center at Harvard Law School, the Nationalities Services Center, the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project, the Defender Association, Philadelphia Community Legal Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Catholic Relief Services, Humane Society of the United States and the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

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