Meera Shah
Senior Legal Adviser, Global Advocacy
Meera joined the Center in 2015 and is responsible for
planning and executing advocacy strategies with UN bodies and mechanisms in New
York. In particular, she plays a key role in the Center’s engagement with the Post-2015 Development
Agenda.
Before joining the Center, Meera served as a Teaching
Fellow at the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law and as
Clinical Advocacy Fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard
Law School. In partnership with local human rights organizations and advocates,
Meera supervised fact-finding, research, and advocacy projects related to human
rights violations arising out of conflicts in the Middle East, where she spent
several years working and studying.
Meera received her J.D.
from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone
Scholar, and was awarded the Lowenstein Fellowship for graduates pursuing
public interest law. She also holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown
University and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University.
