Founder's Bio

Maaria Mozaffar founded The SkinLess Project to fill a much needed void she saw in the diverse communities she worked in.

Maaria Mozaffar is the principal attorney for the Law Office of Maaria Mozaffar, where she focuses on  policy development, mediation and litigation. She served as legal advisor for CAIR Chicago the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the United States where she mediated discrimination cases resulting in monetary settlements as well as employee benefits and  employer-employee duty agreements. She has developed policy on different issues in the state of Illinois and spearheaded negotiation agreements and  policy task forces.

Maaria Mozaffar is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, a Chicago Committee member of Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Inner City Muslim Action Network. She received her undergraduate degrees in Political Science and English - Short Fiction from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she served as President of the Undergraduate Student Body. She received her JD from the University of Illinois College of Law where she served as President of the Muslim Law Students Association and President of the Student Bar Association. Mozaffar's hobbies and passions are faith, family, policy advocacy, law, writing, documentaries,  triathlons ( recently)  and continuing to always find creative ways to have a joyful balance in her life.

Blogs We Read

Are you passionate about improving how women feel and live their life on a daily basis? Are you putting positive energy out there to help women face all the different phases of their life? Then we want to share your brilliance. These blogs are diverse in view, ethnicity, religion, subject and style but they all have a common theme... Optimism .