Nafees graduated magna cum laude in Government in 2010. She attended Yale Law School, where she was Co-Chair of the Moot Court Board, student government representative, Yale Law and Policy Review Notes Editor, and teaching fellow for four Yale College courses. She is currently an Associate at Boies, Schiller, & Flexner in New York City and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Her research interests include information privacy and civil liberties.
At Harvard, Nafees wrote for The Harvard Crimson and interned both for the British Parliament and the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Immediately after her graduation, she served as a congressional staffer for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee under Chairman John Conyers. There, she worked on BP oil spill legal issues and constitutional matters with the FBI. On behalf of the committee, she helped to successfully impeach Judge Thomas Porteous, Jr. at trial. Nafees also advised Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson on foreign policy, veterans’ affairs, and women’s issues.
As a writer, Nafees has reached millions of readers and spoken to several media outlets on legal issues and current events (CNN, Foreign Policy, The International Journal of the History of Sport, and The Huffington Post.) Click here to read her June 2018 op-ed in the New York Times. More recently, she has spoken at Columbia Law School on a panel on Faith and the Law and at Princeton University on Literary Arts.