About me
Arash Jahanian is CLS’s advocacy director for Denver. He was previously Senior Counsel at Denver Public Schools, where his main responsibility involved the District's longstanding consent decree relating to services for English Language Learners and their families. Jahanian’s prior legal experience includes working as Director of Policy and Civil Rights Litigation at the Meyer Law Office, PC, staff attorney at the ACLU of Colorado, attorney at the civil rights firm Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, and judicial clerk for the Honorable Wiley Y. Daniel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Jahanian has served as president of the Colorado LGBT Bar Association and chair of the Denver LGBTQ Commission. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and Georgetown Law, he is currently secretary of the board of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado and on the ACLU of Colorado's legal panel.