Paromita Shah

Paromita Shah is the founding Executive Director of Just Futures Law. Paromita has worked at the intersection of racial justice and immigrant justice for over two decades. She is a racial and immigrant justice lawyer who works alongside community-based movements to end mass deportation, criminalization, and surveillance. Answering a call from grassroots immigrant rights organizers, she co-founded JFL in 2019. Paromita has served as the primary author on dozens of resources and reports for immigrant communities impacted by policing and immigration enforcement. She previously served as the Associate Director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, as the Detention Project Director at Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition in Washington, DC, and as a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. She is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and McGill University.