Fatima graduated from Harvard Law School with a master of law degree, where she was an active participant at the Child Advocacy Clinic. She interned at the Child Protection Unit at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, assisting prosecutors on cases of child sexual abuse and physical neglect. She has also served as a research assistant for the Project of Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy. Prior to this, Fatima served as the founder of a legal aid bureau with the goal to provide pro-bono legal representation to survivors of domestic violence.