Urooj Khan

Urooj Khan (she/her/hers) received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she graduated with honors. In law school, Urooj was a member of the Challenging Consequences of Mass Incarceration Clinic, where she worked in removal defense, and the Bronx Defenders externship, where she worked in family defense. Urooj spent her 1L summer as an intern at the Center for Refugee Rights in Rabat, Morocco, and her 2L summer as an associate at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. After law school, Urooj returned to Paul, Weiss, where she handled prisoners’ rights litigation, post-conviction habeas petitions, and asylum cases, alongside her commercial litigation practice. Before law school, Urooj was a high school English teacher in Washington D.C. She graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College with a major in Political Science and a minor in Islamic Studies.