[2] Miller-Muro founded the organization in 1997 following her involvement in Matter of Kasinga, a high-profile case that set national precedent and changed asylum law in the United States.
Fauziya Kassindja (born 1977), who had fled Togo in fear of a forced polygamous marriage and a tribal practice known as female genital mutilation, was granted asylum in 1996 by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals.
[4] Since 2001, she has led the Tahirih Justice Center in serving more than 25,000 women and children since 1997,[5][6] growing the non-profit from a staff of 6 to over 70, and expanding its offices from Greater DC to Houston, Baltimore and San Francisco.
[9] Prior to joining the Tahirih Justice Center as executive director in 2001, Miller-Muro was an attorney at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter, where she practiced international litigation.
[15] In the same year, she received Diane Von Fürstenberg's People's Voice Award[16] and made the list of Goldman Sachs' Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs.