Bridget Wooding
Bridget Wooding鈥痠s a researcher, advocate, writer, trainer, and expert witness鈥痮n statelessness and related issues. She has coordinated the鈥疌aribbean Migration and Development Observatory (OBMICA), based in Santo Domingo (www.obmica.org), since its inception in 2009.鈥疭he is the author of numerous publications, including books and articles on nationality matters and the migration dynamics affecting the Dominican Republic, the island of Hispaniola, the insular Caribbean,鈥痑nd respective鈥痙iasporas. In 2013,鈥痵he delivered an expert witness testimony in the case of鈥疎xpelled Dominicans and Haitians v. Dominican Republic, which led to significant jurisprudence on the right to nationality for Dominicans of foreign ancestry (IACtHR 2014). Under her鈥痩eadership, OBMICA is a founding鈥痬ember of the Americas Network on Nationality and Statelessness, established in late 2014.