Azadeh Shahshahani
Azadeh Shahshahani is the Director of the newly launched National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project at the ACLU of Georgia. The project is aimed at advocating for immigrant communities in Georgia who have experienced grave erosion of their civil liberties in the post 9/11 atmosphere.Shahshahani previously served as Interim Legal Director for the ACLU of Georgia. Before her move to Atlanta, she worked with the ACLU of North Carolina as Muslim/Middle Eastern Community Outreach Coordinator. In that capacity, she initiated a statewide campaign against racial profiling; coordinated a Continuing Legal Education seminar to train attorneys to represent Muslim and Middle Eastern clients facing civil liberties violations; and led a statewide campaign calling for the investigation of a North Carolina-based air carrier which has transported foreign nationals to torture and detention.
Shahshahani is a 2004 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a participant in the Third Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law and served as Article Editor for The Michigan Journal of International Law. While in law school, Shahshahani completed a fellowship with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Washington, DC; a research fellowship with a women’s rights organization in Iran; as well as an internship with an immigrants’ rights organization in Los Angeles.