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Maaria Mozaffar
As a civil rights attorney, Maaria spearheads projects and crafts legislation to improve lives and ignite community engagement. A few notable projects and legislation Maaria advanced include: the Illinois Civil Liberties Coalition, a 22-member partnership to safeguard civil liberties; the Smart Act to provide the option of drug schools in lieu of incarceration for young people; the Healthcare in Prisons Resolution, which called upon the Illinois Department of Correction to report medical failures; and the Illinois Women and Girls Council Act. Maaria also drove efforts to pass the Food Deserts resolution and create the Fresh Food Fund with Senator Jackie Collins. ABC selected Maaria for its 4 Star Chicagoan series and Crain’s Chicago Business has featured her legal achievements.
Growing up in Kuwait as a Pakistani-American, Maaria has spent most of her life building cohesive and equitable communities. She served as Student Body President three times, in high school, where she was awarded the Hugh Scott Democracy Award, as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she received the Ron Brown Memorial Award and at the Illinois College of Law, where Maaria was President of the Student Bar Association and received the Outstanding Student Body President Award.
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Maaria Mozaffar (https://maariamozaffar.com/)
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY. AUTHOR. POLICY DRAFTER
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Pritzker signs bully mediation bill into law
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed Senate Bill 673, a bill that aims to help students find common ground when dealing with bullies rather than having them
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JOAN ESPOSITO LIVE, LOCAL, & PROGRESSIVE 09.02.2021 by WCPT 820
Today's guests: - ACLU Khadine Bennett - Professor Carolyn Shapiro, Co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law - Maaria Mozafar, Civil Rights Attorney - Sarah Bingman, Coordinator for Indivisible Rural Illinois
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More Than Pretty – Maaria Mozaffar
Women of the world have woken up. Nations have begun to understand that the conditions of our present societies cannot improve if women are not contributing their talents, minds, and innovation. Women have also woken up to the realization that for far too long their own conditions have been monitored and maintained without women at the table. We, uniquely to our gender, have been chosen to carry and birth life and we are outliving our male counterparts.
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"Think about all the students that have gone through bullying and how it scarred them because they did not know how to address it," Mozaffar said. "This legislation gives those students a chance to deal with their problems."
