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Saba Baig

Operations manager

Saba is a cynophile, a mother, a lawyer, a rock climber, and the Operations Manager of the Palouse Land Trust. They grew up in Chicagoland in a South Asian Muslim immigrant family, went to Amherst College for a bachelor’s degree, and the University of Iowa for a law degree. For 15 years, Saba was a legal aid lawyer, focusing on immigrant rights. 

After an AmeriCorps VISTA fellowship at Legal Aid Chicago working with immigrant survivors of gender-based violence, Saba transitioned to the Legal Aid of North Carolina to work on a statewide counter-trafficking initiative. From there, they returned to Chicago to serve as a supervising attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center followed by a brief stint in Madison, Wisconsin. Saba has also lived in Honduras and Spain and speaks Urdu, Spanish, and a handful of other languages (with languishing fluency). 

Saba most recently worked at a non-profit that partnered with a national network of human rights organizations to provide legal defense to immigrants at risk of detention or deportation. After this series of sterling career moves, Saba made the questionable decision to marry an aspiring law school professor, Geoff, and followed him on a peripatetic course that eventually landed Saba and their family in Moscow, Idaho, where Saba, Geoff, their two children, and dog, Joey Peanuts, have fallen in love with the Palouse and the mountains. In their free time, Saba can be found at the crag, hiking, Nordic skiing, knitting, baking, or befriending all the amazing dogs of Idaho.

Cell: 208-717-1356
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