Heather Jean Alexander is a human rights lawyer and an expert on statelessness, nationality, refugee law, climate displacement, and human rights. Heather has fifteen years of experience working with refugees and stateless people in Côte d'Ivoire, Australia, Gabon, Chad, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and the United States, including with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has worked as a researcher for Carleton University, the University of Melbourne, the European University, and the US State Department. Heather was a founding board member of United Stateless, an advocacy network for stateless people in the United States, and is a current board member of the Canadian Centre on Statelessness.