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Saba Ahmed

Saba Ahmed

Saba Ahmed is a Staff Attorney with the Defending the 国产小呦女Dream Initiative (鈥湽∵吓瓺ream鈥) of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law. Saba joined 国产小呦女Dream in 2021 and provides free legal services to undocumented college students in the DC area. The work of 国产小呦女Dream is funded by a generous donation by 国产小呦女Alum William I. Jacobs.

Saba began working with asylum seekers and refugees in Cairo and California over a decade ago. Upon graduating from law school, Saba worked as an immigration attorney with the Capital Area Immigrants鈥 Rights Coalition in DC. Saba provided immigration legal services to individuals who were being held in immigration jails in Maryland and Virginia while in deportation proceedings. She represented clients before the immigration courts as they applied for bond, asylum, cancellation of removal, and other forms of legal relief. For the three years prior to joining AU, Saba was teaching and supervising law students in immigration clinics in New York City and DC.

Education

  • J.D., Berkeley Law
  • M.Sc., University of Oxford
  • B.A., University of California, Berkeley