Anu Joshi

Anu Joshi is the Senior Director of Immigrant Rights Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 member organizations statewide. Anu leads the organization's work on issues relating to immigration status and enforcement on both the state and federal level. Recently, her work has focused on federal appropriations, Dream Act and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) negotiations, the proposed public charge rule change, access to drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants in New York, and broad statewide sanctuary policies. Additionally, Anu was a primary author on a exhaustive report on the impact of gang allegations on immigrant New Yorkers that was covered by NBC News and multiple local outlets. In June 2018, she spearheaded the 25,000 person New York City march and rally to protest the Trump administration‰Ûªs family separation policy.

Anu has previously appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show, Capitol Tonight, Democracy Now!, and in the Albany Times Union, Newsweek, Newsday, The Guardian and the Associated Press, among others. She has worked for over seven years in the immigrant rights movement, including with the Center for New Community in Chicago and the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C. Previously, Anu organized around issues relating to access to education and foreign policy and spent three years as a child services social worker in the Bay Area. She is a native Californian and has her Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.