Sadaf Doost is a staff attorney and the International Human Rights Program manager at the Abolitionist Law Center. Prior to joining ALC, Sadaf was a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. In recent years, Sadaf has worked on supporting the Afghan people in the wake of the Taliban takeover in Havlish v. Taliban – Frozen Afghan Assets, challenging genocide and war crimes in Defense for Children International-Palestine v. Biden, and challenging the unlawful detentions at Guantánamo Bay in Duran v. Trump, modern-day slavery and forced prison labor in Stanley v. Ivey, and environmental racism in the U.S. South in Inclusive Louisiana v. St. James Parish. Previously, Sadaf worked at Refugees International, as well as with Afghan and Syrian refugees abroad, including in Greece. She also co-founded Global Advocates for Afghanistan, an Afghan-led movement committed to protecting and promoting the human rights of Afghans on an international scale, and served as a legal advocacy intern on the National Security and Police Practices Team at the ACLU of Southern California. Sadaf received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on global poverty and practice, and a J.D. from the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, where she was an International Law Fellow at the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society; a Berkeley Human Rights Center Fellow; and a student attorney at the International Justice and Civil Rights Litigation Clinics working on litigation and legal advocacy efforts against state-sponsored and corporate human rights abuses in China, government surveillance, torture and police brutality, climate injustice, and discrimination against Muslims.