Shajuti Hossain

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Shajuti Hossain is a law fellow on the Metropolitan Equity Team at Public Advocates based in San Francisco. She works on local, regional, and state level housing advocacy with a racial justice lens. She is from North Carolina and of Bangladeshi heritage. In 2018, Shajuti received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law. During law school, she engaged on a variety of social justice issues. As a student attorney in the Duke Law Civil Justice Clinic, Shajuti represented several low-income tenants in landlord-tenant disputes. During her externship at the North Carolina State Board of Education, she redrafted a policy concerning students experiencing homelessness. She spent her first summer at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in D.C., working on its Educational Opportunities Project. During her second summer internship at Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho in Oakland and externship at the North Carolina Justice Center, she represented low-income employees in wage and hour class action cases.