The Mayor and the Board of Supervisors are advised by the Immigrant Rights Commission on issues and policies affecting immigrants who live or work in San Francisco.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, a Chandigarh-born lawyer, has become the city and county of San Francisco’s first immigrant of Indian origin to take the oath as Commissioner to the Immigrant Rights Commission.
The Mayor and the Board of Supervisors are advised by the Immigrant Rights Commission on issues and policies affecting immigrants who live or work in San Francisco.
“I am very excited to be taking on this role and look forward to working for my community in San Francisco,” Chaudhary wrote on LinkedIn.
Chaudhary specialises in gender, human rights, child rights, and conflict resolution.
She will be dealing with asylum seekers who have experienced gender-based violence or persecution in their home countries.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Chaudhary previously worked as an Asylum Law Clerk: Gender Specialist at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe.
Chaudhary, a law graduate of Punjab’s Army Institute of Law, has also given guest lectures at Harvard Law School on feminism, patriarchal violence, and gender in international law.
“She is also a published author, with her first book, “Laiza: Sometimes the End Is Only a Beginning,” about human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake.
Chaudhary, who holds an LLM from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, was chosen for the aLeading Nonviolent Movements for Social Progress’ programme at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She received a full scholarship to the King’s College Summer School in London in 2014 to study Criminology and Criminal Justice.
