Sameera Meadows brings a range of practice and organizing experience in the areas of workers’ rights, the administrative state, and public health to the Civil Justice Clinic, where she has taught and supervised students litigating workers’ rights cases since 2024. Before joining the clinic, Sameera spent several years as a field attorney with the National Treasury Employees Union (a labor union representing federal workers), where she represented the union and individual federal workers in cases involving a range of labor and employment issues, including unfair labor practices, bargaining impasses, and workplace discrimination and health and safety issues. In addition, Sameera worked closely with local NTEU chapters to administer elections, identify and train worker leaders, and negotiate conditions of employment, and she served as a steward and member of the Organizing Committee of NTEU’s Internal Staff Union.

Prior to NTEU, Sameera was a legal fellow at Oakland-based non-profit Worksafe, where she worked with unions, worker centers, legal services organizations, and other community advocates on workplace health and safety issues impacting low-wage workers. While a student at Berkeley Law, she also represented clients at the East Bay Community Law Center in public benefits cases as part of the school’s clinical program, interviewed potential plaintiffs for a debtors’ prison class action lawsuit at ArchCity Defenders in St. Louis, MO, and spent her 1L summer as a law clerk for Judge Steve Leben of the Kansas Court of Appeals. Before law school, Sameera worked for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Bureau of Oral Health, where she supported the administration of school-based dental health services to underserved children in Kansas, and co-published reports on the needs of school nurses as a consultant with the National Association of School Nurses.

Sameera received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is also barred in DC and California.