Anita Sinha

Practitioner in Residence, Immigrant Justice Clinic

Office: Room 347A
 Phone: 202-274-4455
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Anita Sinha is a Practitioner-in-Residence in the Immigrant Justice Clinic at American University Washington College of Law. Her areas of expertise and scholarly interests include immigrants’ rights, affordable housing, racial justice, and social justice lawyering. Prior to joining the faculty, she spent over a decade litigating and advocating on behalf of low-income people of color across the United States. She began her career as a Skadden Fellow in the Pacific Northwest representing immigrant survivors of crime in court and administrative proceedings. She has litigated and conducted national policy advocacy in the intersection of immigration and labor law, and of immigration and criminal law as the director of a deportation defense clinic in the Bay Area. In the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, she litigated a class-action law suit on behalf of displaced New Orleans public housing residents, and conducted extensive policy advocacy on behalf of immigrant workers.



Areas of Specialization

  • Clinical Legal Education
  • Immigration Law
  • Civil Rights
  • Housing Law

Degrees & Universities

  • J.D., New York University School of Law 2001 (cum laude)
  • B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University 1997 (summa cum laude)