Michelle Pallak Movahed

Michelle Movahed is a Staff Attorney in the U.S. Legal Program, where her work includes U.S. litigation and other forms of advocacy in the U.S. and at the United Nations. Before joining the Center, she clerked for the Honorable James Orenstein, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York. She earned a JD magna cum laude from the Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in public interest law and a Crowley Scholar in international human rights, founded the school’s chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice and worked with several human and civil rights legal organizations on projects promoting equal enjoyment of social and economic rights. Before attending law school, she worked in social services at a disaster relief site in Manhattan and a women’s shelter in the South Bronx; she has also worked as a field organizer and deputy campaign manager on political campaigns in South Central Los Angeles and Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Religion from Reed College.