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Sherizaan Minwalla
Sherizaan Minwalla is a human rights and immigration lawyer who has represented domestic violence survivors seeking relief under the Violence Against Women Act, and asylum-seekers and refugees in the U.S. and Middle East. She previously worked as a practitioner-in-residence at the Washington College of Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Tahirih Justice Center.