Purvi Shah

Overview

Purvi Shah an experienced racial justice lawyer founded Movement Law to seed a new generation of legal problem solvers to tackle America's toughest racial justice challenges. One of the nation's premier thinkers on law and social movements Purvi has been training teaching mobilizing and inspiring young movement lawyers for over a decade. She is co founder of Law For Black Lives a national network of 3400 lawyers founded in the aftermath of the Ferguson uprisings to support the growing Movement For Black Lives. From 2012 to 2016 Purvi directed the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights where she trained thousands on movement lawyering and built a global network of movement lawyers in sixteen countries. Purvi started her legal career litigating on behalf of taxi drivers tenant unions public housing residents and immigrants. Purvi has won many awards for her work including a Soros Equality Fellowship Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellowship and a New Voices Fellowship. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Berkeley School of Law at the University of California.