About Me

Najah is originally from Cleveland and grew up on the east side in the Shaker Square area before attending Yale University. After graduating from college, Najah studied women’s rights as a Fulbright fellow in Morocco. After returning from the Fulbright fellowship, Najah attended UVA-Law and later clerked for the Supreme Court of Virginia. 

Najah is passionate about Black people and workers’ rights and improving the conditions of working people, having come from a long line of Black workers in Cleveland and New York City by way of the Great Migration from Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. She has pursued a career in labor law, working for the U.S. Department of Labor and the New York State Office the Attorney General in the Labor Bureau. And most recently in wage and hour public policy at the National Employment Law Project. Najah has written about topics such as wage theft, sexual harassment in the workplace and noncompetes in the Guardian, the Harvard Law and Policy Review blog, Project Syndicate, and the Law and Political Economy blog and she also has a chapter in the book Letters from Young Activists edited by Dan Berger, Kenyon Farrow and Chesa Boudin. She has spoken about labor policy on podcasts such as “Bad with Money with Gabe Dunn” and also been interviewed for a feature on noncompetes in the USA Today. 

She returned to creative writing in 2020 and since then has been published in Raising Mothers Literary Magazine, and Common Unity, a New York Writers Coalition collection. Najah writes about motherhood, disability, Black girlhood and Afro-futurism.When she is not lawyering, she’s usually trying out a new scone recipe, quilting, reading or hanging out with her partner and two little ones. She is currently working on a short story collection and a children’s book series.