Veronica is a multi-award winner academic-advocate. Holding six academic degrees, she has researched, taught, consulted, and presented at conferences in over 30 countries. She's authored five books, several book chapters, and journal articles. She is the found/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-lead of the Displaced Peoples Collaborative Research Network; lead of the Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa International Research Collaborative; president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, and Co-Chair, Africa Interest Group, American Society of International Law. She is an assistant professor of Legal Studies at Athabasca University and an Africa-Oxford Fellow. Veronica is a born and bred Indigenous Liberian war survivor.