Executive Director

Simitie Lavaly is the former Executive Director of AdvocAid, and a qualified Lawyer and Women’s Rights specialist. Simitie’s belief in women’s rights and fair legal representation drew her to work for AdvocAid in 2009 firstly as a paralegal and later as Legal Officer, where she successfully represented the country’s longest standing death row inmate. She became Executive Director of AdvocAid in 2014 and stepped down in 2017.