Hello! I’m a lawyer, writer, and policy advocate working on access to justice, gender, and legal empowerment.  Previously, I’ve worked and consulted on these issues in Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, India, and Sierra Leone and I’ve  provided legal representation to survivors of domestic violence in Brooklyn, NY.

I’m passionate about exploring ways to make justice systems more responsive and accessible to survivors of gender-based violence and other communities who have experienced oppression, discrimination and marginalization — and to imagine grassroots, community-based alternatives to the dominant systems that often replicate and deepen trauma and structural violence.

I also offer legal and policy research, grant writing, and strategy support to non-profits and foundations. In 2015-2016, I was a Presidential Fellow with the Open Society Foundations. I’ve got a Bachelor’s in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

In my spare time, I also write creative non-fiction and poetry. My writing has been published in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Catapult, Entropy, Lunch Ticket, Kitchen Work, Ravishly, and The Offing. If you’re interested, read my work here.

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