Anjali is a human rights and law of war attorney, speaker, athlete, and professional dancer, who currently runs a nonprofit dedicated to combating gender-based violence. She is a TEDx speaker and Fulbright Scholarship grantee. 

 

Anjali has worked at the intersection of women's rights, gender-based violence, art, and law in India, the U.K., Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. Her work as a lawyer includes representing foreign governments in human rights cases before international courts, achieving asylum for asylum-seekers persecuted on the basis of their gender, and working on Constitutional rights cases to protect the rights of transgender girl athletes in the U.S. 

 

As a dancer, Anjali explores themes of social justice through art, and developed a somatic movement workshop for lawyers that she presented at Yale Law School's Rebellious Lawyering Conference and at NYU School of Law. Her movement films have been nominated for several awards, including at the Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase, and Anjali has received a Bessie nomination for outstanding performer for her achievement in dance. 

 

As an athlete, Anjali is passionate about mountaineering – her latest summits: Aconcagua at 23,000 feet and Kilimanjaro at about 19,000 feet– and wants to show young Indian-American girls that no dream is too big to pursue. She aims to be the first Indian-American woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam.