Alisha Jarwala

Alisha Jarwala joined Brown, Goldstein & Levy in June 2025. Before joining the firm, Alisha served as a trial attorney at the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she investigated and litigated complex Fair Housing Act and Equal Credit Opportunity Act cases. She joined the Civil Rights Division through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Her matters included a sexual harassment in housing case in New Mexico and disability discrimination cases in Texas and Kansas. She also authored Statement of Interest briefs opposing discriminatory policies based on race and national origin, including exclusionary zoning practices.

Prior to her work at the Civil Rights Division, Alisha clerked for the Honorable Pamela A. Harris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Leo T. Sorokin of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Alisha graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. During law school, Alisha was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a contributor to OnLabor. She served as a student attorney in Harvard’s Education Law Clinic, where she represented Massachusetts families seeking special education services for children who have experienced violence or trauma. Alisha was also a research assistant for the Clean Slate for Worker Power project, which sought to address economic inequality through working with stakeholders to recommend labor law reforms. Alisha worked on immigration and education cases as an intern at the ACLU of Southern California. She also gained experience with employment, ERISA, and consumer protection class actions as a summer associate at a large plaintiff-side litigation firm.