Anoushka Chander is a senior at Harvard College from Washington, D.C. studying Social Studies and African American Studies with a focus on women's rights, racial justice, and the law. She is a Carol K. Pforzheimer Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a Director’s Intern at the Institute of Politics, and a Whitehill Prize Recipient in Lowell House. Her work has been featured in Vice News, the Harvard Gazette, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Ms. Magazine.

At Harvard, she runs the Future Leaders in Public Service Conference for public service-minded high school students, hosts political speakers to the Institute of Politics as a member of the JFK Jr. Forum Committee, and is the lead singer in the all-senior pop/funk band Charles Revival.

Anoushka works as an Assistant Producer and intern at Ms. Studios at Ms. Magazine, where she has produced a podcast on the child welfare system and is working on hosting her own podcast centering Gen Z voices. She has published articles in Ms. and in the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review.

Anoushka interned on Capitol Hill for Congressman Jamie Raskin, served low-income mothers seeking public benefits as an intern with the Georgetown Health Justice Alliance, and interned at the Democratic Women’s Caucus in the House of Representatives. She is a trained lobbyist for voting rights, gun violence prevention, and racial justice.

Anoushka plans to become a lawyer dedicated to protecting mothers of color through the law.