• Royce Fellowship
Christina
Koningisor

Concentration 

International Relations

Award Year 

2006
In Pursuit of Justice: Post-Conflict Resolution in Sierra Leone

Faculty Sponsor: Abbott Gleason

Working with the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone, Christina investigated specific international approaches to post-conflict resolution in Sierra Leone. She hoped that her work would address broad questions surrounding peace and justice in the aftermath of war.

Christina Koningisor currently serves as a law clerk to Chief Judge Sidney Thomas on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2014. While in law school, she served as an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law and as a student director of the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. She has previously served as an intern at the White House Counsel's office and as a summer associate at WilmerHale, LLC, in Washington, D.C. Prior to law school, she completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Kuwait and served as an editorial fellow at the Atlantic Magazine.