Axana M Soltan is an international lawyer, professorial research scholar, and Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown University. Her work centers on international criminal law, human rights, and gender justice—with a particular focus on advancing the recognition of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law.

Soltan earned both her J.D. and LL.M. with distinction, focusing on international human rights law. While at The George Washington University Law School, she was a Merit-Based Scholar and the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Award. She served as a guide editor for the George Washington International Law Review and worked under the Honorable Judge Michael J Ryan at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Soltan currently is reading policy at the University of Oxford and serving as a Chief Senior Advisor in Diversity, Inclusion and Access to the President of the Oxford Union.

Axana is an Eisenhower Global Scholar.