Mary McClymont has held leadership positions in the non-profit, philanthropic and government sectors, focused on social justice, human rights and humanitarian issues in both the domestic and global arenas. McClymont is Senior Fellow at Georgetown Justice Lab, where she undertakes research on the use of nonlawyer navigators in state courts. She also served Adjunct Professor in 2018-19 at Georgetown Law. Previously, she served as president and CEO, and member of the board of directors of the Public Welfare Foundation, a national private philanthropy with a $500 million endowment working to advance justice and opportunity for people in need. Its grantmaking focused on criminal and youth justice reform, workers’ rights and the initiative she created and led--civil justice reform.

Prior to joining Public Welfare, she served as executive director of Global Rights; and as president and CEO of InterAction. She held various executive positions at the Ford Foundation, including as vice president of the Peace and Social Justice Program. While there, among other areas, she led work on immigrants’ rights and civil legal aid, both domestically and globally, and she launched the criminal justice reform portfolio. Earlier, McClymont served as the national director for legalization of the Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Catholic Conference; as senior staff counsel for the National Prison Project of the ACLU; and as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

A member of the D.C. bar, McClymont holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from American University’s Washington College of Law, and a J.D. from Georgetown Law.

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