Grant for work with Muslim Justice League

By Mohammad Ayub Khan
TMO Contributing Writer

CAMBRIDGE,MA–Harvard Law School graduate Shannon Erwin has been selected as one of the two recipients of a grant from the Public Venture Fund.
The Public Service Venture Fund, a first-of-its kind program at a law school, was launched in 2012 to invite law students and recent alumni to identify unmet legal needs and develop new initiatives to meet them.Erwin will work with the Muslim Justice League to combat policies that marginalize Muslims.

Through MJL, Shannon Erwin will work to empower Greater Boston communities with tools to end policies and practices that marginalize Muslims and suppress dissent through targeted legal advocacy, community education and mobilization.

Erwin said: “In addition to the tremendous assistance the Public Service Venture Fund will provide in allowing us to transform this volunteer initiative into a full-time, staffed organization, I hope it may also bring wider attention to the policies that target Muslims as suspect communities and the way those policies erode all our expectations of due process, suppress dissent, inspire divisive suspicion within our communities, and undermine our democracy.”

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