Zohrabi will work to move California away from the use of long-term solitary confinement in state prisons through impact litigation, strategic communications, and public education.
Zohrabi is a graduate of University of California’s Hastings College of Law, where she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal. During law school, she interned at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Justice Without Borders for Migrants, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She has worked at Justice Now! and for two years advised and mentored young women in South Central Los Angeles. She is the author of two academic articles, “Resistance & Repression: The Black Guerrilla Family in Context” and “Creating the ‘Bad Mother’: How the U.S. Approach to Pregnancy in Prisons Violates the Right to be a Mother.” Zohrabi is a magna cum laude graduate of University of California, Riverside.