Najia Humayun is an Appellate Attorney in the Family Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders. She was formerly a Staff Attorney at Brooklyn Defenders in the Family Defense Practice, directly representing parents whose children were being removed from their care by the government. She is an alum of Berkeley Law and Georgia Tech. Her scholarship focuses on challenging the U.S. criminal legal system through Islamic law and prison industrial complex abolition frameworks.
She is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Lawyers Association USA and will be contributing soon to a webinar focused on the family policing system.