Human Rights Consulting

Mariah Grant (she/her) is a human rights and migration expert with a focus on sex workers’ rights, freedom of movement, and labor exploitation. For over a decade, she has worked throughout North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, in a variety of capacities including case management with migrant children and families, training and technical assistance for governmental and intergovernmental agencies, human rights research and documentation, and policy advocacy. She is currently a freelance consultant working on projects related to sex work decriminalization, sex work in humanitarian crises and conflict zones, and human trafficking prevention and service provision for survivors. Prior to consulting, she was the Director of Research and Advocacy with the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center where she oversaw research on the harms of sex work criminalization, including police violence, as well as local, state, and federal policy advocacy to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work. She has consulted and worked with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, International Organization for Migration, US Department of State, US Department of Labor, ICF International, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Mahidol University’s Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Decriminalize Sex Work, Freedom Network USA, New Moon Network, Protection International, Morrison Child and Family Service, Minority Rights Group International, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.