Azadeh Shahshahani

Azadeh Shahshahani is a practicing human rights lawyer who has worked for over a decade in the US South.  She was the first woman of color to lead the National Lawyers Guild and has been deeply involved in the movements for immigrants’ rights including shutting down the Stewart Detention Center and repealing the discriminatory educational bans affecting undocumented students in Georgia, dignity for Muslim-Americans, a just US foreign policy, and Free Palestine.