Hi there, and welcome to my blog! I’m Akhila. In 2010, I graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics. At Northwestern, I wrote a honors thesis on international justice in Sierra Leone and Rwanda and studied abroad for a year at the London School of Economics (LSE). As an undergraduate, I worked with non-profits on international 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.
After graduating, I worked for a civil rights law firm, assisting victims of discrimination in seeking redress. While in DC, I also volunteered as an Advocate with the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, where I worked one-on-one with immigrant women survivors of violence from India. Currently, I am a Technical Advisor and fundraiser with Justice for All, 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 expanding access to holistic, competent legal services to poor and marginalized groups across the globe, with a focus on women and prisoners. I am particularly hoping to focus on access to justice abroad, community-based legal service models, holistic models of justice, domestic violence and gender-based violence, and refugee/asylum rights while in law school.
Personally I love writing and blogging of all sorts, traveling across the globe, burying myself in books, writing poetry, and keeping up with art, photography, and fashion. I love big cities and am struck with wanderlust every few months. I’m probably a workaholic; there’s no such thing as work-life balance for me. I’m definitely a huge nerd, but I’ll talk to you about almost anything (except sports…). Oh and I’m addicted to the internet, coffee, love stories, and chocolate.
Want to be friends? Email me at akhila [dot] kolisetty [at] gmail [dot] com. If you think we have any similar interests, let’s chat! =)
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