PSVF Fellow: Tascha Shahriari-Parsa (J.D. ’24)

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Workers Rights and Antifraud Section

Washington, D.C.

Tascha Shahriari‐Parsa will spend his fellowship year with the Workers’ Rights Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. In this role, he will help enforce labor standards in the District and collaborate with the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative to strengthen state and local coordination in workers’ rights litigation.

Before his fellowship, Tascha clerked for Justice Goodwin Liu on the Supreme Court of California.

In law school, Tascha was an avid contributor to the OnLabor Blog and Online Chair of the Harvard Law Review, where he wrote on labor and public law issues. He interned at Unite Here Local 11, the British Colombia Labour Relations Board, and union‐side firms Bredhoff & Kaiser and Altshuler Berzon. Tascha was also a research assistant for the Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Chief Judge David Barron, and Professor Cass Sunstein. And he served on the boards of the Labor Employment Action Project, the Tenant Advocacy Project, the Canadian Law Students Association, the JDD/MPP Joint‐Degree Association, and the Harvard Graduate Students Union.

Prior to law school, Tascha organized airport workers in California with SEIU‐USWW. Tascha holds an M.P.P from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in History from Pomona College.