Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi
Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi graduated from the University of Michigan in 2007 and UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) in 2010. She is a 2021 Fellow of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law's Racial Justice Institute.
Parisa's background includes extensive experience asserting and advancing the rights of individuals and marginalized communities in poverty law and civil rights cases, both individual cases and impact litigation. She previously served as a Managing Attorney at Legal Services of Northern California, as San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program's Pro Bono Manager and Supervising Attorney, as a Senior Attorney at Disability Rights California, and as the Director of California Advocacy at the National Housing Law Project.
Since 2019, Parisa has served as an adjunct law professor at University of San Diego School of Law, where she teaches the law school's Poverty Law course. She served five years as an appointed Commissioner on the San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, where she led drafting of the County's CEDAW ordinance, and currently serves as the Commission's UN CEDAW Advisor.
Her recent law review articles include Eradicating Race-Based Health Disparities by Effectuating the Fair Housing Act's De-Segregation Intent and Redlining of our Era: Land-Use Voter Initiatives.
