Muna Mohamed joined Relman Colfax in 2026 for a two-year term as a civil rights paralegal. Her work focuses on supporting the firm's civil rights litigation and counseling practices.
Muna's commitment to civil rights is rooted in the belief that research, storytelling, and legal advocacy are all tools for the same work. She graduated from Cornell University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies and a minor in English, earning the John S. Knight Expository Writing Prize and publication for her essay "Of Gods and Melanin: Theorizing the Resistance to Black Bodies in White Imaginative Spaces." Beyond her studies, she co-authored a Student Assembly resolution calling on Cornell to extend protections to undocumented, DACA, refugee, and immigrant community members. She led community organizing efforts for a nationally recognized grassroots concert that raised funds for Palestinian refugees and spent a year volunteering with the Prisoner Express Newsletter, transcribing and editing creative work by incarcerated people across upstate New York.
Before joining Relman Colfax, Muna interned in immigration defense at The Moreno Law Firm in Atlanta, where she supported case management and litigation preparation for clients navigating immigration court. She also conducted research at Georgia State University's Black Women's Maternal and Reproductive Health Lab, examining gaps in maternal healthcare access for Black immigrant women in Atlanta and contributing recommendations for policy reform.
In her free time, Muna enjoys reading speculative fiction, writing poetry, and exploring the local live music scene. She is fluent in Somali.
