Adv. Mosa Mary Letsie

Adv. Mosa Mary Letsie serves as Chairperson of the Centre for Development in Social Justice (CDSJ) and brings strong legal, governance, and programme leadership experience in human rights, gender justice, access to justice, strategic litigation, and community-centred accountability.

Her professional background includes roles as Programme Lawyer and Community Liaison at Seinoli Legal Centre, Gender and Human Rights Officer at Women and Law in Southern Africa - Lesotho, and Candidate Attorney in Lesotho's private practice, through which she has built a strong track record in litigation support, legal research, policy advocacy, community legal empowerment, and stakeholder engagement.

She has led and supported donor-funded initiatives financed by Bread for the World, USAID, the British High Commission, the U.S. State Department, and the European Union, with work focused on rule of law, women's land rights, GBV prevention and response, community accountability, safeguard compliance, and the protection of rights in large-scale infrastructure and development contexts.

Her portfolio also includes strategic engagement with development finance institutions and regional human rights processes, as well as co-founding the International Human Rights Laboratory and contributing to major accountability actions involving project-affected communities. At CDSJ, she brings this combination of legal expertise, project leadership, rights-based programming, and institutional advocacy into strengthening the organisation's governance, credibility, and social justice mission.