Hafsa is a litigation associate in White & Case's New York office. She maintains an active pro bono practice focused on actualizing civil and human rights and advancing criminal justice reform, including representing a class of impoverished debtors suing the City of Ferguson, Missouri for its wealth-based detention practices.
Hafsa graduated as valedictorian of her law school class. She served as a Center for Social Justice Scholar and also as a Postgraduate Fellow for Detained Immigrant Defense at the Seton Hall Law Immigrants' Rights/International Human Rights Clinic, where she represented detained immigrants in removal proceedings and co-authored a report on the impact of immigration bond practices on the surge of COVID-19 infections in ICE detention facilities. Hafsa also served as Senior Articles Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review and has written two published law review articles, Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Effective Bail Reform as a Human Rights Imperative and Modern Racism but Old-Fashioned IIEDs: How Incongruous Injury Standards Deny "Thick Skin" Plaintiffs Redress for Racism and Ethnoviolence. Additionally, during law school, Hafsa interned for Judge Esther Salas, D.N.J., and co-founded FirstGenJD, an online resource guide for first generation law students.
Hafsa will be clerking in the Southern District of New York in 2023.
