Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives

We SPOTLIGHT Deepa Iyer to discuss the negativity aimed at Muslims following the San Bernardino mass shooting. Deepa is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion, where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on the ways to build racial equity and solidarity in light of the rapid demographic transformation in America’s neighborhoods, schools and workplaces. She is an attorney who has worked on civil and immigrant rights issues in the non-profit and governmental sectors for 15 years, including serving as Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) for a decade. Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, was published this year. Deepa’s opinion editorials on issues ranging from the post 9/11 backlash to immigration reform to anti-Black racism have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera America, and The Nation.