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Parisa Dehghani-Tafti

Commonwealth’s Attorney
Arlington County & the City of Falls Church, VA

Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti discusses how her family’s economic struggles when she was growing up shaped her understanding of justice and how witnessing a friend’s wrongful conviction led her to commit her career to fighting for a fairer criminal legal system.