Mitra Ebadolahi

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Mitra Ebadolahi is the border litigation staff attorney at the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties. From 2011–13, she was the inaugural Nadine Strossen Fellow with the ACLU’s National Security Project in New York. Ebadolahi is a proud Bruin: while an undergraduate student at UCLA, she served as an editor and columnist for the Daily Bruin, participated in the Undergraduate Students Association Council as a staff member for the Office of the President, worked as a DJ with UCLA Radio, served as a camp counselor for UniCamp, and worked as a Spanish-English bilingual literacy tutor through BruinCorps. A UC Regents' Scholar, Ebadolahi graduated from the College Honors Program Phi Beta Kappa with double majors in International Development Studies and History in December 2002. She then received a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Scholarship and obtained an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics. She completed her legal studies (JD ’08, LL.M. ’12) at New York University School of Law, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and a Root-Tilden-Kern Filomen D’Agostino Scholar. Following graduation, Ebadolahi clerked for Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, and for Judge Margaret M. Morrow of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in downtown Los Angeles, California.