Executive Director
Executive Director
Alisa believes when you empower a girl, you empower an entire community and generations to come. She is a social entrepreneur and executive director passionate about creating a safer, more just world for girls and young women. Alisa’s twenty year career has focused within the human rights sector as an advocate for women and girls, namely refugees and asylum seekers, especially those displaced throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
From 2012-2018 she led RefuSHE, an award-winning international NGO. Alisa's leadership was honored as an International Woman Leader by Chicago Woman magazine and named a 2017 Emerging Leader by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
She has appeared on BBC Worldwide, WBEZ Worldview (NPR) radio, MSN, Refinery29, The Chicago Tribune, ABC7 primetime news and NewsDeeply and frequently speaks on issues of forced migration and women’s rights. Alisa holds certifications in Forced Migration from Northwestern and Oxford Universities, a BA in Humanities and an MA in Comparative Religions. Alisa currently serves on Chicago Council on Global Affairs Women and Global Development Advisory Committee.
Alisa Roadcup from the Chicago Refugee Coalition
In this episode of The Real Estate Diplomat, Chicago Refugee Coalition Executive Director Alisa Roadcup talks about their work and how their operations adapted during the pandemic. Alisa also speaks what brought her to this field of work, and on …