Founding Director of The New American Leaders Project, the only nonprofit, nonpartisan, national organization training first- and second-generation immigrants for civic leadership
Former NYC Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Founder of South Asian Youth Action, the first and only organization of its kind, currently working with over 500 youth each year
M.Ed. in Comparative Education and a Ph.D. candidate in the Politics and Education program at Teachers' College, Columbia University