Corinne Rafferty

Chief Operating Officer

Corinne worked at IATP on organization operations from 2005 to 2016.


Corinne Rafferty joined IATP in early 2005 to help with program management and coordination. A lawyer by training, Corinne has devoted her working life to various social justice organizations in San Francisco, New York and the Twin Cities. She was co-founder and co-director of Nicaragua Exchange, which mobilized opposition to U.S. funding of the contras in the mid-1980s. She worked for the North American Congress on Latin America, the National Lawyers Guild and the Institute for Media Analysis before serving as a program officer for the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. She moved to Minnesota in 1994, and has worked for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and more recently, Farmers' Legal Action Group, where she served as executive director. Corinne has a B.A. in English from Yale University and a law degree from Hastings College of the Law (University of California).