Chitra
is a staff attorney for the Legal Services program, doing advocacy work
and individual representation of our clients in housing, employment and
discrimination cases. Before joining African Services, she consulted at
the Brennan Center for Justice on their Gulf Coast Technical Assistance
Project, advocating for an equitable rebuilding process for Hurricane
Katrina survivors and served as the Workers' Rights Fellow at New York
Jobs with Justice. Prior to law school, Chitra worked in international
development, first as a program officer at Grameen Foundation USA,
promoting the Grameen Bank's microcredit peer-lending model, and then
as a Fulbright Scholar, studying the impacts of the Bangladesh Rural
Advancement Committee's primary education program. Chitra holds a B.A.
in development studies from University of California at Berkeley and a
J.D. from New York University School of Law. She speaks some Bangla,
Tamil and Spanish.
