Tamar Alexanian
Practitioner In Residence
WCL Faculty
Bio
Tamar Alexanian (she/her) is a Practitioner-in-Residence with the Elliott Milstein Civil Advocacy Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law. In the Civil Advocacy Clinic (CAC), Professor Alexanian supervises students in civil cases involving survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as name and gender marker changes for members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Prior to joining the CAC, Professor Alexanian was a staff attorney at the Youth Law Center where she focused on ensuring that system-involved youth had access to their voting rights. Professor Alexanian began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the Children’s Law Center of California where she focused on representing LGBTQ+ foster youth to access gender affirming care, legal and non-legal resources, and name and gender marker changes. In law school, she was a student attorney at three clinics at the University of Michigan and one clinic at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Professor Alexanian holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in Gender Studies and English from Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the California bar.
