Rabia Chaudry is a civically engaged legal practitioner with significant experience and background in immigration law, civil liberties, social justice, interfaith relations, nonprofit and program management, and grassroots advocacy. Rabia is a graduate of the George Mason School of Law. She is an immigration attorney and immigrant rights advocate with over a decade of experience in federal immigration law and served in the past as an immigration advisor for the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C. She is a Fellow of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute, is the immediate past president of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, a nonprofit organization committed to coalition building, interfaith relations, and social justice, served on the Board of the ACLU-CT and the Racial Justice Advisory Committee of the YWCA, is an advisor to the Center for American Progress's Faith and Immigration Roundtable, and a regular OpEd contributor and blogger. Rabia has been an advocate for the American Muslim community on the grassroots level, working hard to correct misperceptions and build interfaith relationships. She has provided cultural competency training on Islam and Muslims to dozens of audiences, including to Federal, state, and local law enforcement and works towards greater engagement, mutual respect, and mutual cooperation between American Muslims and law enforcement to further our national security. Rabia is the founder of the "Safe Nation Collaborative", an initiative aimed at providing cultural competency training for law enforcement and building cooperative partnerships between Muslim communities and law enforcement agencies.