Title: Executive Director
Organization: Muslim Advocates
Area of Expertise: Politics & Civil Society, Law & Civil Rights, Women’s issues
Media Experience: TV, Print, Associated Press, New York Times, Austin American-Statesman, San Jose Mercury News
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Leah Borkin, Fenton Communication
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Phone 212 584 5000 x 206
Farhana Khera leaves her position as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights to join Muslim Advocates (www.muslimadvocates.org) as Executive Director. She also serves as the Executive Director of its sister organization, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) (www.namlnet.org).
In the Senate, Khera worked for six years for Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), the chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee. She focused substantially on the USA PATRIOT Act, racial and religious profiling, and other civil liberties issues raised by the government's anti-terrorism policies since September 11, 2001. She was the Senator's lead staff member in organizing subcommittee hearings on racial profiling, the treatment of individuals rounded up and detained after the September 11th attacks, and legal reform in Iraq.
Prior to her service with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Khera was an associate with Washington, D.C. law firms. She worked with Hogan & Hartson, specializing in commercial and administrative litigation. She also worked with Ross, Dixon & Masback, serving as the lead associate on several pro bono employment discrimination cases, which resulted in the firm being honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
Khera received her B.A. with honors in political science and economics from Wellesley College. At Wellesley, she served as president of the student body and co-founded the first Muslim students organization, al-Muslimat ("The Muslim Women"). She received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she was a finalist in the law school's annual Cuccia Cup Moot Court Competition and was an editor with the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Khera has been quoted or profiled by The New York Times, Associated Press, Austin American-Statesman, and San Jose Mercury News, as well as legal, ethnic and religious media.
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