Madhavi Narayanan

As the Associate Attorney in the Black Immigrant and Refugee Equity (BIRE) Project in Los Angeles, Madhavi provides provides pro bono representation of Black asylum seekers, particularly those in immigration detention and expedited removal. She is a member of the New York State bar.

Prior to joining Human Rights First in 2023, Madhavi worked at Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa as a fellow with funding from the Promise Institute of Human Rights at UCLA School of Law where she represented and assisted asylum seekers and refugees from all over the African continent, as well as assisting in strategic litigation cases.

Madhavi earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2022 where she was a member of the International Human Rights Law Clinic and co-Editor in Chief of the Indigenous People’s Journal for Law, Culture, and Resistance. Madhavi also worked as an intern for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in London and New Delhi, Mwatana for Human Rights in Yemen, and the Danish Refugee Council in Ethiopia and Djibouti. She previously worked as a Teach for India fellow for two years in an under resourced school in Chennai, India.