Abby McGill

Abby McGill has been ILRF’s Campaigns Director since September 2013. She is responsible for coordinating campaigns around labor exploitation in globally-traded agricultural commodities. Her current campaigns include cotton from Uzbekistan, seafood from Thailand, tobacco from Malawi, palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia, and cocoa from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to ILRF, Abby worked for more than six years in the international affairs department of the American Federation of Teachers. She had previously worked as a journalist and has a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University and Bachelor degrees in journalism and Russian from the University of Kansas.