Denise Scotto
DENISE SCOTTO, Esq., is an attorney at law, policy advisor, international speaker, interfaith minister & Founding Chair of the International Day of Yoga Committee at the UN. In that capacity she hosts annual celebrations for the International Day of Yoga and curates an annual magazine on Yoga around the world with Light on Light Magazine. Recent programs for Yoga Day, on-line or at the UN’s Tillman Chapel, have hosted many international luminaries, including Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati of this broadcast, and spiritual leaders like Deepak Chopra and Ken Wilber. Denise has held leadership roles in professional bar organizations including: the NY State Bar, the NY State Women's Bar, the International Law section of the American Bar Association, the UIA. She has organized numerous events at UN fora as well as at national and local levels on global issues of pressing concern including conducting the first legal education program in NY City and NY State on the topic of human trafficking. As a UN staff member in NY Headquarters, she worked on issues to reform the internal system of justice, then, in the Department for Economic & Social Affairs formulating policy to advance law, good governance and human rights. Denise has held numerous leadership positions across the UN community including as a member and officer of numerous committees and fora.
