About Seeta Persaud

Introduction
Seeta Persaud Seeta is a licensed New York State attorney with a background in human rights law, policy advocacy, organizing, and new media messaging. A graduate of the City University of New York School of Law and NYU Wagner School of Public Service, her litigation and advocacy experience has centered on labor and employment discrimination claims, including Title VII, FLSA, FMLA, and Section 1981 claims; civil rights claims including excessive force claims under Section 1983; mortgage foreclosure defense; and discrimination against formerly incarcerated individuals in the workplace.

Personal Background
Seeta emigrated with her [then-19-year-old] mother on Pan-American Airlines to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn from Demerara, Guyana in 1979. Not too long thereafter, they moved to Astoria, Queens, where Seeta spent the majority of her childhood and formative years. Seeta became a naturalized U.S. citizen in the 1980s. The eldest child of an immigrant, working class, Indo-Caribbean family, Seeta is not only a first generation high school and college graduate, but she also went on to earn advanced degrees at the masters and doctorate level.

In my spare time I photograph nature and the cosmos.

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