Ayumi Kusafuka has worked for human rights non-governmental organisations on gender and prosecutions issues. For the International Centre for Transitional Justice, she has worked on truth commissions and gender with a focus on East Timor and South Africa. Most recently, with the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New York Law School, she has drafted an amicus curiae submission to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and helped draft submissions to the United Nations Committee against Torture.