Nakissa Sedaghat

Nakissa Sedaghat is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she obtained a Master of Laws in international human rights, and she was admitted to the New York Bar. She previously obtained an LL.B. from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada, being one of the youngest law graduates there, at the age of 23. Having been educated in France and Canada, Ms. Sedaghat is fluent and bilingual in French and English. In addition, she speaks Farsi and a measure of German. An immigrant herself, Ms. Sedaghat devoted the first decade of her legal career to advocating for asylees, victims of...