Maryam Judar
Executive Director at Citizen Advocacy Center
Elmhurst, Illinois
Maryam Judar serves as Executive Director and Community Lawyer at the Citizen Advocacy Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, community-based legal organization with a mission to build democracy in the 21st century. In addition to implementing long-range strategy to achieve the Center's mission and providing leadership in developing programs, she answers legal questions, helps community groups organize; monitors local governments for abuse of power, and speaks out against anti-democratic laws, policies, and practices. Most recently, she reported on how the decentralized nature of local electoral boards causes systemic barriers to voter access to the ballot and suppresses voter choice. Maryam serves as regular source for Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Northwest Herald, WBEZ, WDCB and more.
Maryam has assisted with citizen concerns about affordable housing, economic development, ethics, First Amendment violations, lobbying, property tax appeals, racial profiling, redistricting, school district bilingual education policies, special service tax areas, tax increment financing, and zoning, to name a handful. She advocates on many local and state policy issues, including campaign finance, civic education, the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Election Code, and economic development.
Maryam has assisted with citizen concerns about affordable housing, economic development, ethics, First Amendment violations, lobbying, property tax appeals, racial profiling, redistricting, school district bilingual education policies, special service tax areas, tax increment financing, and zoning, to name a handful. She advocates on many local and state policy issues, including campaign finance, civic education, the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Election Code, and economic development.
