Biography
Zoha Khalili is a staff attorney at Palestine Legal. She provides legal advice and advocacy support to activists in the movement for Palestinian freedom on issues ranging from free speech violations, discrimination and disciplinary charges to doxxing, surveillance and threats. Zoha’s legal career has been devoted to defending the rights of marginalized communities. Before joining Palestine Legal, Zoha fought against housing discrimination and advocated on behalf of people with disabilities as a staff attorney at Project Sentinel. Prior to this, she represented immigrants in naturalization and deportation proceedings as an immigrant rights fellow at Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. Zoha is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a managing editor of the Columbia Law Review. Zoha holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Zoha is not an Arab, but is willing to toss around some Arabic phrases if that will make you more comfortable. She is admitted to practice law in California.
