Aditi Shah is the Staff Attorney at the ACLU of the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the ACLU of the District of Columbia, Aditi was an associate at the New York law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, where she litigated complex civil cases, and served as a Borchard Fellow and Litigation Fellow at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, where she litigated cases challenging unlawful conditions in immigration detention centers, prisons, and jails. Her work has focused on access to counsel and access to justice issues, and she primarily litigates class actions concerning immigrants’ and prisoners’ rights. Aditi clerked for the Hon. Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She holds a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was a student attorney at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, a student contributor for the Lawfare blog, and a research assistant to Professor William B. Rubenstein.
As federal immigration enforcement has intensified in D.C., immigrant communities and their allies are organizing, supporting one another, and fighting back. In this episode of A More Perfect District, Andrea Ramos speaks with Madhvi Bahl from the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network and ACLU-D.C. Staff Attorney Aditi Shah about what is happening on D.C.’s streets and in the courts, what immigrants should know about their rights, and how community solidarity can help protect our neighbors.
