Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, Esq.
Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer

Tahirah Amatul-Wadud is a respected attorney based in Springfield, Massachusetts with over sixteen years of experience in corporate, family, and civil rights law. A former staff attorney with Western Massachusetts Community Legal Aid before entering private practice, she served as a commissioner with the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women from 2014-2020. In 2016, she rose to national prominence serving as the principal attorney on behalf of the residents of Islamberg, New York against Robert Doggart, an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist who had planned a violent attack against the community. More recently, in 2018 she ran for United States Congress in Massachusetts’ first district, securing 30% of the vote. Tahirah is active in the Western Massachusetts interfaith community and serves on non-profit executive boards and committees throughout the region. In recognition of her service, she was named a Top Woman of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and in 2021 she received the prestigious Massachusetts Bar Association Community Service Award. She served as a board member CAIR-Massachusetts from 2016-2021 and its President from 2021-2022 and during her tenure has overseen the organization’s restructuring and rapid growth. Ms. Amatul-Wadud is a graduate of Western New England University School of Law (2005) and Elms College cum laude (1998). She identifies as an African American Muslim woman, and is a proud married mother of seven.