A member of Foley Hoag’s Global Business and Human Rights Practice since 2011, Isa’s counsel to clients is particularly focused on advancing internationally recognized laws and principles, efforts to promote the interests of Indigenous Peoples and other vulnerable communities, the advancement of fundamental worker freedoms and an inclusive workforce, the eradication of modern slavery in supply chains, and regular human rights due diligence. These services are premised on the International Bill of Human Rights, the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, other established international instruments, and industry best practices.

Isa regularly conducts human rights impact assessments and investigations in multiple languages and has carried out fieldwork research in many countries across the globe, including most recently Colombia, Peru, Algeria, Iraq and India.

An expert in federal appropriations law and the congressional legislative process, Isa has extensive experience working with clients to tailor practical federal government engagement strategies that strengthen U.S. human rights initiatives, humanitarian assistance, and tribal programs. As part of this work, he regularly represents clients before Congress and Department of State.

Isa is also proud to maintain a highly active pro bono practice. His work in this space is especially focused on using restorative justice practices to empower residents in the District of Columbia who are returning from incarceration.  In addition, Isa works with non-profit demining organizations on efforts to increase U.S. support for humanitarian demining projects that utilize mine-detection rats and dogs.

Before coming to Foley Hoag, Isa served in the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro –former Chair of the House Appropriations Committee – and was a Yale Fox International Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.