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.
Since 2010, Parisa has focused her practice on advancing the rights of individuals living in poverty, activists, and marginalized communities in matters involving poverty law, the intersection of housing and civil rights, and government transparency, through both individual representation and impact litigation to achieve systemic change. She previously served as a Staff Attorney and 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.
In addition to practicing law full-time, for the last seven years, she 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. In 2019, she was appointed by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, where she served as a Commissioner for five years, Chaired the Commission, led the drafting of the County's UN CEDAW ordinance, and now serves as the Commission's UN CEDAW Advisor. Previously, she served on the California State Bar's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services and the Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee.
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.
