Legal Director
Sylvia Ronnau is currently the Legal Director at KG Lobby Center where she is lobbying the United Nations and the European Parliament to recognize the Kurdish Genocides.
In her role as Legal Director, she is applying various international legal tools such as universal jurisdiction to obtain justice for the Kurds.
She recently helped obtain recognition of the Kurdish genocides by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Before that, she was the Legal Director at Genocide Watch where she managed myriad legal associates and managed various projects, including a project to sue Facebook in various jurisdictions for promoting hate speech against the Rohingya.
For 16 years, she worked as an attorney at myriad law firms in various areas of the law, including criminal, immigration, civil rights, among others.
With her legal training, she has helped numerous individuals obtain asylum in the United States and aided women subject to sex trafficking, domestic violence, and gender discrimination.
She graduated cum laude with her B.A. in International Relations at Stanford University where she also obtained an M.A. in Sociology.
She received her law degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law.
During law school, she acted as the Managing Editor of the Santa Clara Journal of International Law where she published her law review article, “The International Criminal Court’s Quest to Protect Rape Victims of Armed Conflict: Anonymity as the Solution” 2 Santa Clara J. Int’l L. 138 (2004).
