Shafaq Khan is the executive director of the John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School. She oversees the Levin Center’s fellowships, programming, and community-building efforts, with a focus on expanding employer partnerships, strengthening training opportunities, and supporting students pursuing public interest and public service careers across a wide range of practice settings and geographic markets.

Khan joined Stanford Law School in 2019 and previously served as the Levin Center’s director of career development, advising students interested in government and nonprofit work and supporting pathways into public interest and public service law.

Before Stanford, Khan was director of the Disability Advocacy Project at Brooklyn Legal Services, where she represented low-income individuals denied SSI and SSD disability benefits in administrative hearings and appeals. She previously spent five years as a senior staff attorney with Mobilization for Justice’s Mental Health Law Project, representing clients with mental illness in housing court and administrative proceedings. While at Mobilization for Justice, she led trainings for mental health providers, court staff, and judges; established a community-based legal clinic at the Harlem Community Justice Center housing court; and oversaw a pro bono referral program in partnership with law firms. Earlier in her career, she served as a fellow with South Brooklyn Legal Services.

She is the author of Zeyna Lost and Found, an adventure novel for readers ages 8–13, set in 1970, about a young girl’s journey from Pakistan to London to find her missing parents.

Khan earned her JD from Cardozo School of Law and her BA from Columbia University.