Amal Bouhabib

Amal Bouhabib

Amal Bouhabib is a Senior Staff Attorney at FarmSTAND, after nearly a decade representing farmworkers throughout the Deep South as an attorney, and later director of, Southern Migrant Legal Services located in Nashville, Tenn. At FarmSTAND, Amal continues to pursue cases that highlight and seek justice for the frontline food workers that feed us, and exploring news ways to create a humane, fair, and accessible food system for all communities.

Prior to her farmworker career, Amal was a litigator at an international law firm in New York, where she was part of the trial team that won a $14 million verdict on behalf of workers from India against a Mississippi corporation, the largest-ever jury verdict in a labor trafficking case. Before going to law school, Amal worked as a journalist in Beirut, Lebanon and as a legal assistant for the Brennan Center for Justice in New York. Amal earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Middle East Studies from New York University, and a B.A. in Theology from Georgetown University.

In her (limited) spare time, Amal enjoys the wild nature of Nashville, singing with her musician husband, attending her son’s soccer games, and cuddling with their moody cat Bear.