Aasha was born and raised right in central Jersey and is excited to be back for SPIA. She recently finished her second year at Yale Law School (YLS) and is a proud 2020 graduate of Rutgers University, where she was in the Douglass and Honors Colleges. Aasha began doing gender equity advocacy work at the U.N. when she was 15 years old, and served as the sole American representative on U.N. Women’s Generation Equality Youth Task Force for the past two years. At YLS, Aasha has been a dean’s advisor and student in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. She has interned with the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Southern District of New York Federal Legal Clinic and King County Public Defense, and is committed to using her MPA/J.D. to serve alongside communities traditionally marginalized by our sociopolitical and justice systems. Aasha has been honored to be the 2019 Truman Scholar of New Jersey, a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholar, and a featured activist in ABC’s 2020 International Women’s Day special, aired across the nation.