Marta Bylica joined the Freedom Fund as Corporate Accountability Program Officer in February 2022. Marta is a U.S.-trained lawyer and has experience working on complex human rights issues, with a focus on the ethical implications of corporate practices.
Before joining the Freedom Fund, Marta worked at Reprieve, an international legal action organization, where she engaged in strategic litigation, investigative research, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) advocacy, particularly focused on the death penalty and preventing the misuse of medicines in lethal injection executions. Prior to that, she helped research and write a comprehensive Amnesty International report on the human rights impacts of gun violence.
While in law school, Marta was a student attorney in the Prisoner & Reentry Clinic, representing incarcerated individuals. Marta also has experience in the private sector, where she conducted corporate due diligence and financial crime compliance research.
Marta has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from McGill University and a J.D. law degree from the George Washington University Law School. She is fluent in Polish, German, and English, and is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.