Welcome to my portfolio! I'm Akhila, a graduate of Northwestern University, where I majored in Political Science and Economics, and wrote a honors thesis on international justice in Sierra Leone and Rwanda. I studied abroad for a year at the London School of Economics (LSE). As an undergraduate, I worked with non-profits on human rights, death penalty abolition, criminal justice reform and access to justice issues. I was Co-President of Amnesty International's chapter at Northwestern and while at LSE, helped start a student development non-profit called the The Student Initiative.
More at my blog: Journeys towards Justice!
After graduating, I worked for a civil rights law firm, assisting victims of discrimination in seeking redress. I also worked as an advocate on behalf of South Asian immigrant women survivors of domestic violence in DC. Currently, I am a Technical Advisor with JFAO, an NGO that works to expand access to legal services and legal awareness for women and girls in Afghanistan.
This fall, I'll be starting law school, where I hope to focus on human rights and using law as a tool for social change. I hope to be a lawyer, advocate, policymaker, and academic focusing on ensuring that the poor - in the U.S. and abroad - have access to competent and holistic legal representation.
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