Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai 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 and empowering services for and with survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence in Asia. Dr. Cordisco Tsai is also Visiting Professor of Human Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab in the Health and Wellbeing Program. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MSW and PhD in Social Work from Columbia University, is a registered yoga instructor (RYT-200), and has received postgraduate training on trauma recovery and researching gender-based violence from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Harvard University. She loves practicing yoga, gardening, reading, and dogs.