Ms.
Panjwani is the supervising attorney overseeing African Services' legal
services programs that advocate for the legal rights of immigrants,
refugees and asylum seekers including people living with HIV and other
vulnerable groups. Prior to joining African Services, she was a
clinical instructor/adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School in a
program that served low- and middle-income senior citizens, many of
whom were immigrants. Prior to that, Andrea was a staff attorney at
Legal Services of Greater Miami for seven years representing low-income
individuals in civil rights, housing, relationship violence and
family/dependency law matters. She has written a quarterly housing
discrimination commentary for the ABA's Journal of Affordable Housing,
served as Vice-President of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless and as
Vice-President of the Stanley Meyers Community Health Center. Andrea is
a graduate of Fordham Law School and worked previously in the Congo
where she learned conversational French.
