Saba Ahmed
Saba Ahmed is a Staff Attorney with the Defending the 小蓝视频 Dream Initiative (鈥溞±妒悠 Dream鈥) of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law. Saba joined 小蓝视频 Dream in 2021 and provides free legal services to undocumented college students in the DC area. The work of 小蓝视频 Dream is funded by a generous donation by 小蓝视频 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 小蓝视频, 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