1. Mehrsa Baradaran was born on April 3,1978 and is an Iranian-American legal scholar known for her studies of banking law.
14 Facts About Mehrsa Baradaran
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Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine.
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Mehrsa Baradaran was born on April 3,1978, in Orumieh, Iran.
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Mehrsa Baradaran's mother spent several years as a political prisoner in Iran.
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Mehrsa Baradaran spent 18 months giving service to Latino immigrants in Houston, which led to her becoming fluent in Spanish.
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Mehrsa Baradaran was an academic fellow at the NYU School of Law from 2009 to 2010, then became a professor at Brigham Young University's J Reuben Clark Law School.
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In 2012, Baradaran joined the law faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law in 2012, where she was the J Alton Hosch Associate Professor, teaching contracts and banking law.
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In November 2020, Mehrsa Baradaran was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition's Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve.
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In 2021, Mehrsa Baradaran was mentioned as a possible contender for the position of Comptroller of the Currency.
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Mehrsa Baradaran's nomination was supported by progressives in the Democratic Party, including Representative Jamaal Bowman.
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Mehrsa Baradaran spoke about her experience as a refugee from Iran in Slate in January 2017.
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Mehrsa Baradaran pointed out that she was one of the "immigrants and refugees from 'terrorist countries' that soon will be banned by executive order from coming [to America]".
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On October 15,2015, Mehrsa Baradaran gave a speech on the book to the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers, where she again proposed a return to postal banking, which was discontinued in 1967.
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In 2017, Mehrsa Baradaran published her second book, The Color of Money: Black Banking and the Racial Wealth Gap, the Harvard University Press.