Photographs of Staff Attorney Jonathan Harris at the Public Justice Center on 1/19/12.

Chaumtoli HuqSeptember 1, 2013

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Chaumtoli Huq's expertise lies in labor and employment issues, human rights, role of law in social movements and access to courts. She has devoted her career to the public interest serving as Director of the first South Asian Workers’ Rights Project in the country at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and as the first staff attorney to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a multi-ethnic, immigrant, worker-led labor organization of taxi-drivers.

She has previously served as Director of Litigation at Manhattan Legal Services (including Harlem Legal Services), which provides free legal services to low-income New Yorkers on a wide range of legal issues, including housing, consumer rights, and employment. She is also a contributor to the anthology Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Sarah Husain, Editor; Seal Press 2006) and co-author of “Laying the Groundwork for Post 9-11 Alliances: Reflections Ten Years Later on Desis Organizing,” (Asian American Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 1.5, Fall 2011).

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