Sima Atri is a movement lawyer with experience in Boston, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Toronto working alongside movements fighting state violence by the police, border and immigration systems, and the criminal legal system and building systems rooted in equity, solidarity economies, and climate justice. Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 2015, Sima has worked as an immigration, civil rights and criminal lawyer with the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, as a civil and criminal litigator at ArchCity Defenders, as a human rights lawyer with Falconers LLP, and as Criminal Duty Counsel with Legal Aid Ontario. Her legal work has focused on deportation defense, release from jail, eviction and foreclosure defense, and supporting workers against their employers. Sima has also represented groups in collective civil rights lawsuits in U.S. Federal Courts. 

Sima is rooted in her Iranian-French Canadian background and in organizing communities fighting for a transformed world where all can thrive. She is committed to legal work that centers those most impacted by unjust systems who are organizing to dismantle and reimagine these systems.