MICHELLE PALLAK MOVAHED is an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights. Before joining the Center, she clerked for the Honorable James Orenstein, a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York. She earned a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law & Ethics, a Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights, and a founder of Fordham Law Students for Choice (now Law Students for Reproductive Justice). Prior to law school, Ms. Movahed worked in electoral politics, disaster relief at a social services site, and direct social services at a women's shelter; during law school, she was involved with several human and civil rights legal organizations. She holds a B.A. in Religion from Reed College.