Landesa
My-Lan Dodd is currently working at Landesa as an Attorney & Senior Land Tenure Specialist with a focus on Gender. Previously, Dodd has held various roles in organizations such as Native American Rights Fund and Northwest Justice Project. Dodd's educational background includes a Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law, an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Sociology and International Development Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout Dodd's career, a range of responsibilities includes conducting research on land tenure reform issues, developing frameworks for securing customary land tenure, and co-authoring technical guides on legislating community land rights.
Landesa
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Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that rural women and men living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1981, Landesa has helped more than 720 million people strengthen legal control over their land in the last five years. When people have secure land rights, they can invest in their land to sustainably increase their harvests and reap the benefits—improved nutrition, health, education, resilience, and opportunity—for generations.