Dr Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, until April 14th 2026, was the Director of the Research Department at the Head office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The Commission has approximately 100 regional and district offices nationwide. She has worked with the Commission for more than two decades. Lilian transits between practitioner and researcher roles and views the implementation of codified human rights laws as being intersected by everyday contexts informed by lived realities. Lilian’s work on the lived realities of incarcerated juveniles was recently recognized through the award of a publishing contract with the Bristol University Press.