Zahra Mion is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
Zahra joined the firm from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), where she advanced civil rights and democracy initiatives. Her work included drafting congressional testimony on voting rights and housing discrimination, and authoring letters and public comments submitted to the Department of Justice, the Federal Register, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, and election authorities at the state and local levels.
Previously, Zahra worked as a communications and advocacy associate at the Center for American Progress, where she built and and mobilized national and state coalitions supporting clean slate legislation, and developed strategic communications on major federal policy debates, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, work requirements for public benefits, and the future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, TANF, SNAP and other federal programs.
Zahra received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, where she was recognized as a J. L. Greene Public Service Scholar and received the CALI Award for Achievement in Civil Procedure. Zahra also was a research assistant for professors Sherrilyn Ifill and Andrew Gavil. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.