Saba Bireda

Co-Founder and Chief Legal Counsel, Brown’s Promise

Saba is an attorney with almost twenty years of experience in the education field. She grew up in Hillsborough County, Fl (Tampa) and attended some of the district’s most prestigious public schools as an out-of-boundary student. Saba went on to attend Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

She started her career in education as a teacher at Sousa Middle School in Washington, DC. Saba has worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Center for American Progress, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and EducationCounsel. She served as a member of the senior political staff at the Department of Education during the Obama Administration, including two years as senior counsel in the Office for Civil Rights.

Saba was most recently a partner at a national civil rights law firm and was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to serve five years on the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board. Saba has been named by the National Law Journal as one of Washington, DC’s Rising Stars. The Profiles in Diversity Journal also recognized her among its Women Worth Watching in Leadership and as a Black Leader Worth Watching. Saba was recently named a Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyer and recognized on the National Black Lawyers Top 100 list.