Alice Johnson heads the Cairo Community Interpreter Project (CCIP) within the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at The American University in Cairo. Since joining CCIP in 2006, she has led refugee interpreter training and technical assistance projects to build rights-based language access with refugee aid organizations in over a dozen countries. Prior to CCIP, Alice worked in the Highlander Research and Education Center language justice program from 2002-2004, and in various immigrant community leadership development organizations in the US South since 1993. Alice holds a postgraduate professional diploma in Arabic, and English simultaneous interpreting, a Master of Advanced Studies in Interpreter Training, and a Ph.D. in Translation and Intercultural Studies, researching rights-based approaches in training refugee interpreters working in refugee aid operations in the Global South.