Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai (she/her) oversees all strategy, research, programming, training, and fundraising for Eleison. She is a social work practitioner and researcher with over 20 years of experience building more effective trauma-informed, survivor-centered services for survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence. Dr. Cordisco Tsai is Visiting Professor of Human Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab in the Health and Communities Program. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MSW and PhD in Social Work from Columbia University, and has received postgraduate training on trauma recovery and researching gender-based violence from Harvard University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is a registered yoga instructor (RYT-200), and holds additional teaching certifications in restorative and yin yoga.
