Fordham-Ghana Program Faculty

Kwaku Agyeman-Budu is Dean of GIMPA Law School. Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Budu is a Lawyer by profession and a legal academic. Since January 2013 he has been teaching various law courses at the Faculty of Law of the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra, Ghana. In September of 2013, Kwaku established The Justice Foundation, an apolitical not-for-profit non-religious human rights organization, with the sole purpose of increasing access to justice in Ghana.

Aysha Ames has a twenty-year background in education, law, and entrepreneurship. Ames is an attorney with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights where she works to ensure equal access to education and resolves complaints of discrimination. Ms. Ames is also a member of the Office for Civil Rights’ Diversity and Inclusion Council.

Ms. Ames is the founder of Yogalese LLC, a consulting company, and also manages a yoga law practice where she advises and counsels yoga studios and instructors on employment, business liability, tax, and intellectual property matters.

Professor Brown is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Experiential Education. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on the intersection of race, gender and access to housing and has been placed in the Northwestern Law Review, California Law Review, the Brooklyn Law Review, the NYU Journal of Law and Social Change, the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, and the Clinical Law Review.

She is a recognized expert on housing law issues and has written op-eds and been interviewed for various news outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Shelterforce and the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Prior to law teaching, Professor Brown worked at the United States Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division as a trial attorney advocating on behalf of victims of housing discrimination.

Professor Brown earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law.

Professor Mariam Hinds is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, race, and gender and has been published or is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law.

Professor Gowri Krishna is a distinguished clinical educator and advocate for economic, racial, and social justice. She is a 2006 alumna of Fordham Law School. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, directing a project that provided legal services to low-wage immigrant workers. She has taught community economic development clinics for over a decade at the University of Michigan, Roger Williams University and New York Law School. An expert on immigrant-owned worker cooperatives, Krishna has addressed national law conferences, given numerous trainings and presentations, and written extensively on the topic. She currently serves as Co-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association.