Roya Atashi

Roya Atashi is director of legal services at New Friends New Life, where she previously served as an attorney. Before joining the organization, she was an associate with Modern Family Law in Dallas. After graduating from Texas Law, Roya joined the Texas Advocacy Project as a Mike A. Myers Fellow. In that role, she assisted survivors of intimate partner violence with international child-abduction matters under the Hague Convention and with cross-border service of legal documents under the Hague Service Convention. She remained with the organization after her fellowship as a staff attorney.

At Texas Law, Roya was active in Texas Law Fellowships, the Women's Law Caucus, and the Muslim Legal Society and served as a staff editor of the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights. She participated in the Human Rights and Domestic Violence Clinics and interned with the Texas Civil Rights Project in Dallas and the Texas Attorney General's Criminal Prosecutions Division in Austin.