Mevlüde Akay Alp

Mevlüde Akay Alp is a Senior Litigation Attorney in IRAP’s U.S. Litigation Department. In this role, she works on impact litigation in U.S. courts to advance and defend the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and other people in need of humanitarian relocation.

Prior to joining IRAP, she was a senior attorney at The Legal Project in Albany, NY where she represented hundreds of low-income immigrants and refugees in humanitarian cases before USCIS, EOIR and the BIA, including asylum and withholding of removal, family reunification, U and T visas, SIJS, VAWA, SIV, DACA and TPS. Prior to moving to the U.S., Mevlüde practiced civil litigation as a barrister in London.

Mevlüde received her LL.B. from Queen’s University Belfast and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. She speaks fluent Turkish, as well as some Arabic, French, Spanish and Kurdish.

Mevlüde is a member of the New York Bar.