Sharia Mayfield

Sharia Mayfield is an adjunct professor teaching privacy law and an employment discrimination practicum course at Willamette Law. Mayfield, born and raised in Oregon, has a BA in Creative Writing from Stanford and a JD from Georgetown. She worked for two years as an intelligence and national security advisor to US Senator Ron Wyden before joining the Oregon Department of Justice as a lawyer in both the Trial And Appellate divisions for nearly two years. She then moved into private practice where she now specializes in employment discrimination and workers rights law.

Mayfield's passion for privacy and anti-discrimination law stems from personal experience with religiously-motivated targeted surveillance leading up to her father's 2004 wrongful arrest in connection to the Madrid Train bombings. Mayfield, an Arab-American Muslim and outspoken advocate for privacy rights, has been interviewed by Stanford's KZSU radio, published in UC Berkeley's Journal of Comparative Literature, and appeared on Fox Business and CSPAN. In her spare time, Mayfield enjoys being outdoors and playing Rocket League.