Azadeh Shahshahani

Azadeh Shahshahani

Azadeh is the legal and advocacy director at Project South. She has worked for a number of years in the U.S. South to protect and defend immigrants and Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and as National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project Director with the ACLU of Georgia. She is the author or editor of several human rights reports, including a 2017 report titled Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers, as well as law review articles and book chapters focused on racial profiling, immigrants’ rights, and surveillance of Muslim-Americans. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, USA Today, Aljazeera, and HuffPost, among others.